A Look at How Christmas is Celebrated Around the World
Merry Christmas everyone! As Christmas begins earlier and earlier each year, there’s a longer build-up before the 25th December so thank goodness we’ve finally made it… Wherever you are in the […]
Attending Blogstock: the World’s First Blogging Festival
Barely a week after moving back to London from Madrid, and I was already off again out of the city! This trip wasn’t quite so far […]
Postcard of the Week: A Hindu Offering and the Galungan Festival in Bali
Back in May, at the end of our trip to Bali in Indonesia, my friend Imy and I headed into the heart of the jungle to […]
Partying at Carnival in Italy
Carnival, taking place late-February / early-March each year all across Catholic nations such as Brazil, Italy and Spain, draws huge crowds and understandably a big pull […]
Guest Post: Live Music and Shenanigans at Bestival on the Isle of Wight
Nicola Marchant, the lucky winner of the competition I ran to win two tickets to Bestival, tells us about the live acts and Shenanigans at this year’s festival! With […]
Win a pair of tickets to Bestival on the Isle of Wight for a lucky reader – competition now closed
[This competition is now closed.] If you’re based in the UK then you will probably have heard about Bestival at some point – it’s an annual music festival that traditionally […]
Guest Post: an Insider’s Guide to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh
Caroline Cant is a seasoned veteran of Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival, a month-long performing arts festival held every August in the Scottish capital. Here she imparts her essential tips for any […]
Tapas and Rioja Wine anyone?
London is such a fantastically multicultural city (over 1/3 of London residents were born in a foreign country) and as such is always full of interesting events and festivals […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 