Tour Scotland Winter Solstice travel video of an afternoon road trip drive, on the Monday before Christmas, from the city centre of Edinburgh, with Scottish music, to visit and cross the Queensferry Crossing the new Forth Road Bridge which spans the Firth of Forth. Winter solstice, or hibernal solstice, is an astronomical phenomenon marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The Queensferry Crossing, formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing, is a road bridge built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge which carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, into Fife and onwards to Perthshire, at North Queensferry. The bridge is 683 feet high above high tide, equivalent to approximately 48 London buses stacked on top of each other and 25% higher than existing Forth Road Bridge. It is estimated the construction involved approximately 10 million man hours. The Queensferry Crossing is 33 miles from Perth, Perthshire 14 miles from Edinburgh and 47 miles from Glasgow.

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