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Events & Festivals

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Upcoming Events

Love Trails Festival

Love Trails Festival 2025, Gower Peninsula Wales

Love Trails Festival, the world’s inaugural running and music festival, established in Wales in 2016, offers an array of experiences. Revel in trail running, beach outings, enlightening talks, divine cuisine...

Out & Wild Festival

Out & Wild Festival 2026, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Out and Wild is the UK’s first Wellness Festival designed for queer, questioning and curious women and those who are non-binary. It is held in Abbotsham Devon The festival is...

Cherry Creek Arts Festival Credit VISIT DENVER

Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver

CherryArts is a non profit organisation that believes with the twin belief that art should be for all, and that it is essential. Each year it holds the Cherry Creek Arts Festival which is one of the largest...

Summerlicious 2023 The Sultans Tent by The City of Toronto

Summerlicious Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Summerlicious Toronto is an annual festival and a foodie's dream, offering prix-fixe menus at over 200 of Toronto's most acclaimed restaurants. Indulge in three-course lunches and dinners...

Savonlinna Opera Festival

Savonlinna Opera Festival 2026, Finland

Held from 3 July to 1 August the Savonlinna Opera Festival Finland is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world with Olavinlinna Castle on Lake Saimaa providing...

Phoenix Project representing Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve Chile

Isle of Wight Mardi Gras UK 2026

Part of a packed programme of events held each year on the island to the south of England, this year the Isle of Wight Mardi Gras will have the theme of the story of the carnival...

Taiwan International Balloon Festival

Taiwan International Balloon Festival 2026

Not quite yet reaching the 99 Luftballons of Nena’s 1980s hit, some 40 participating balloons will be taking off during the Taiwan International Balloon Festival in Taitung...

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Mark Bibby Jackson, award-winning writer and founder of Travel Begins at 40

Latest Articles

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Can You Vape in Brazil?

Can You Vape in Brazil?

Can you vape in Brazil? Travellers should be cautious, as Brazil has some of the strictest vaping regulations in South America. Brazil vape laws heavily restrict e-cigarettes and related products…

24 Hours in Bristol and Clifton

24 Hours in Bristol and Clifton

Mark Bibby Jackson spends 24 hours in Bristol visiting the galleries, Clifton Suspension Bridge and the local microbreweries. I often say that serendipity is at the essence of rewarding travelling…