Upcoming Events

Ardh Kumbh Mela

Ardh Kumbh Mela 2025 India

Ardh Kumbh Mela is a phenomenal spectacle of millions of Hindu pilgrims in India who gather every six years to bathe in a sacred river – this time in Allahabad...

Burns Night Burns Supper

Burns Night, Scotland, UK, 2025

Held in January, along with Hogmanay and St Andrew’s Day, Burns Night is the leading festival in Scotland. However, Burns Night is more widely celebrated across the country than the...

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Up Helly Aa, Shetlands, 2025

If you want to see a horde of Vikings parading through the streets, before burning a galley boat and then making merry for 12 hours, Up Helly Aa is the festival for you...

Tết 2023: Vietnamese Lunar New Year Unsplash

Tết 2025: Vietnamese Lunar New Year

Tết, or Tết Nguyên Đán is the most important festival in Vietnam. It marks the advent of Vietnamese New Year, and the arrival of spring. Very much like Chinese New...

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year 2025, Global

Chinese New Year is undoubtedly China’s pre-eminent and most intense festive period characterised by sumptuous family meals, the colour red, paper lanterns and lots...

Bristol Lights 2025

Bristol Light Festival 2025, UK

Bristol Light Festival, the award-winning winter festival will return in February 2024 with a stunning interactive and captivating light installation trail that will set the western British city alight. Bristol...

Winterlude

Winterlude 2025 Ottawa, Canada

Every February, Canada‘s Capital comes alive with the Ottawa Winterlude Festival. This magnificent event, held in the Ottawa region over the first three weekends of the month, draws an average...

Lobster Crawl

Nova Scotia Lobster Crawl 2025

Have you heard? Nova Scotia’s South Shore is a year-round destination – spring, summer, autumn and most importantly, Lobster. Every February, they celebrate the peak of lobster season with the...

Exploring Accessible Tourism in Berlin

Exploring Accessible Tourism in Berlin

Travel Begins at 40’s newly appointed accessibility correspondent Debbie North examines accessible tourism in Berlin. This year, I had the privilege of visiting the German capital to delve into both…