Rock Oyster Festival 2023 Cornwall
This July, Dinham House will host the Rock Oyster Festival Cornwall. Overlooking the beautiful Camel Estuary near Padstow, this year the leading UK food and music festival has teamed up with…
Derby Folk Festival 2023, Derby, UK
This autumn will see Derby buzz with the Derby Folk Festival held in the city centre. Held from 29 September to 1 October, the festival will include a host of folk musicians. The festival is…
Bumper Year for Burghley House
Lincolnshire’s Burghley House will be offering visitors a packed programme of events after it opened for the new season on 19 March 2022, including a revealing look at the personal collections…
7 of the Quirkiest Festivals in the UK
We like quirky things in the UK. And what is more quirky than a festival? From Morris dancing, to bog snorkelling and even pledging you’ve never quarrelled with your spouse…
Basel Carnival (Fasnacht), Switzerland
The Basel Carnival is part of the city’s cultural identity. For three days the city goes wild. The largest carnival in Switzerland, it was added to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list in 2017…
RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024
The Malvern Spring Show or RHS Malvern Spring Festival will once more be held at Worcestershire’s Three Counties Showground in May. The four-day celebration of everything horticultural is held in…
The Great Derbyshire Beer Festival, 2022
Derby has been dubbed the best place to drink real ale in the world, and for many years has hosted the Camra Derby Winter Ale Festival. Now for the first…
Slapstick Celebrates Tiswas Reunion
The UK’s biggest celebration of silent and classic screen comedy – Slapstick – is adding a new event to a programme which already features 20 shows in January and four in March – this time reuniting…
Celebrate the New Year with a Mar’Granita
This New Year’s Eve, after a(nother) year like no other, we all want to make the most of our time together with friends and family – enter the house party comeback. Get ready to spoil your loved ones…
Monk Sculpture for Display St Edmund’s Day
A giant monk sculpture made from steel will be on display in the Abbey Gardens to celebrate St Edmund’s Day (20 November) in Bury St Edmunds and to promote the Abbey 1000 celebrations for…
Southampton Pride 2023, UK
More than 17,000 people are expected to travel to the South coast for Southampton Pride on 26 August 2023. The event will include a Pride Village and Market Hall inside…
Green Man Festival 2023, Brecon Beacons, Wales
Held in the beautiful Black Mountains, in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales the four-day Green Man Festival is a must for the UK’s festival lovers this…
Taste East Devon Festival 2023
This September will see the county of Devon become a foodie’s delight as the field to fork Taste East Devon Festival 2023 takes over the countryside. The festival will feature…
Las Fallas de Valencia 2024, Spain
March will see Las Fallas de València return to the third Spanish city in a traditional ceremony that marks the beginning of spring. The origins of Las Fallas stem from the tradition of carpenters…
Vilnius Becomes City-Wide Open-Air Gallery
Vilnius continues the tradition of open-air projects. Last year, the city turned into a huge outdoor café to reduce the pandemic isolation of the community during the lockdowns. This summer…
Experience Medieval Days in Tallinn’s Old Town
Considered one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe, Tallinn plays host to an annual celebration of Medieval Days to mark this heritage. Hosted by the Estonian Folk Art and…
Celebrate Estonia’s Midsummer White Nights
Midsummer’s Day – known as Jannipäev – is the beginning of Estonia’s White Nights celebrations and is one of the country’s most important days of the year. As daylight extends…
15 UK Music Festivals 2021 Guide
Robert Spellman has rounded up 15 UK music festivals this summer that are due to go ahead covid-permitted for Travel Begins at 40. The idea of a summer music festival…
Paradise Kortrijk Triennial, Belgium
Inspired by interpretations of the utopian dream of paradise, the Kortrijk Triennial will take place from 26 June to 24 October, 2021 in the Belgium city. Organisers of the Paradise…
Dogstival, Burley Park, New Forest
Dogstival will take place on 5 and 6 June, in the picturesque surroundings of Burley Park in the New Forest, and promises a weekend dedicated to a dog’s enjoyment, fun…
Great Northern Food & Drink Festival 2022
Following on from last year’s success, The Great Northern Food & Drink Festival, returns to the North – this time in Nottinghamshire – this August. Organisers say that the festival…
Trentham Gardens Spring Bulb Festival
Nature, well-being and the Great Outdoors are set to combine this spring as award-winning Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire prepares for its annual Bulb Festival…
Bruges Triennial (Triennale Brugge), Belgium 2024
The Bruges Triennial (TRIBRU) is a contemporary art and architecture event held every three years in the city of Bruges, Belgium. This summer will see the fourth version of the…
Blenheim Palace Flower Show 2024
Held in June each year, the Blenheim Palace Flower Show is a wonderful horticultural show set in the surroundings of arguably England’s finest stately home…
