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December 11

Christmas Lights/Trees in Scotland

what streets, cities, churches have the best Christmas Lights/Tree displays in Scotland?.and also, does the British Royal Family ever visit some of these? Gfigs (talk) 15:45, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

To answer your question, we would first need you to define “best”. Me… I prefer “tasteful understatement”, but I do understand that others take a “It’s not enough until you can see it from space” attitude when it comes to decorations. Blueboar (talk) 16:20, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Try Googling "best Christmas lights in Scotland". I'm not sure that anybody here will do any better. Alansplodge (talk) 18:54, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

best, might mean most popular, or most visited..exactly what you would expect to find on Wikipedia..1958, Scotland's forgotten Christmas lights.. Gfigs (talk) 20:15, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

suppose it might be little difficult to see them..i think it's snowing?. Gfigs (talk) 20:47, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

As a confirmed humbug, the best Christmas lights are the ones that are turned off. MinorProphet (talk) 22:15, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Are you saying you're a fraud? :( ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Probably the ones switched on by Jean-Claude Van Damme: [1]. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:26, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

actually, they were saying : "you should log off the Wikis, due to the porn"..it's reason why Larry Sanger (reporting) left Wikipedia.. Gfigs (talk) 04:55, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

wonder what he is doing this Christmas?.. Gfigs (talk) 06:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh always has a spectacular display. See a round-up of various city displays in Scotland here [2].

The Duchess of Cornwall at least once switched on a city’s Christmas light display, but that wasn’t in Scotland [3].

Just searching the BBC website, the trend seems to be to report on light displays when they are raising funds for charity, which I completely agree deserves the label “best.” [4].

Am also very fond of Newburgh’s lights, which are designed by children :) [5], [6]. 70.67.193.176 (talk) 16:57, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

hopefully this Christmas, Santa will reduce the prices of data.. Gfigs (talk) 03:51, 14 December 2021 (UTC)