Rotterdam Carnival, Rotterdam 2024
If you can’t make the Rio Carnival and Notting Hill Carnival, head for the Rotterdam Carnival (Rotterdam Unlimited Carnival) this summer. From 23 to 27 July, the Netherlands…
Studley Castle: Everything But the Bullocks
Set in the heart of England, Studley Castle is Warner Leisure Hotels’ first new venture in 20 years. Mark Bibby Jackson accepts an invitation to see what all the hype…
WOMAD 2024: the World’s Music Festival
Travel Begins at 40 gives the run down on this year’s WOMAD music festival, which is staying true to its global roots. Every summer in late July musicians, poets, actors, artists, thinkers and even cooks…
White Temple Thailand Light Fest 2019
Thailand is pulling out all the stops from 22 November to 22 December when the inaugural Wat Rong Khun Light Fest will light up northern Thailand’s already very bright White…
Pukkelpopkwartier / Pukkelpop 2024 Belgium
From roaring rock, pumping house and blazing metal to low-fi singer-songwriters, indie and pure pop, young and old will love the Pukkelpop music festival in August featuring one of the…
Brussels Summer Festival 2021, Belgium
The Brussels Summer Festival in August has grown to one of Europe’s not-to-be-missed music festivals. The five-day event will turn the royal quarter of Brussels…
Gentse Feesten 2024 (Ghent Festivities)
During the 10 days of Gentse Feesten (Ghent Festivities), the entire city of Ghent in Belgium turns into Europe’s largest cultural open air festival with over 3,300 international and local…
Dour Festival 2025, Dour in Belgium
Dour Festival is the biggest music event in the French speaking part of Belgium featuring eight stages and attracting a quarter of a million revellers. Held in July, this is…
Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 2024
Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at the Golden Gate Park attracts the top names in the music world. Though don’t just think it’s all about music. Add to the concert art displays…
Mammoth Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza
The Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza is a mix of many shades of blues music and even more flavours of craft beers and ciders. Music ranges from blues to…
Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2024, Colorado
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is a unique mix of music, comedy, circus and the great outdoors of Colorado. In 2024, the artists performing include Sam Bush Band, Lyle Lovett, Madison…
Vivid Sydney 2024, New South Wales
Regarded as the biggest light, music and ideas festival in the South, Vivid Sydney will light up the city’s opera house and surrounding harbour area from 24 May to 15…
Venice Biennale 2024 (La Biennale di Venezia)
From April to November, the Venice Biennale (la Biennale di Venezia in its original Italian, and in English also called the Venice Biennial) is one of the world’s most prestigious cultural happenings, famous…
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, 2025
Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival held in Indio, Greater Palm Springs, California, in April. More than half a million people…
Colourful Candle Festival Thailand, 2024
Marking the start of the green (or wet) season, the Candle Festival in July is amongst the most beautiful celebrations in Thailand. Extravagant, intricately-carved candle sculptures are shown…
Tallinn Music Week 2025, Estonia
Tallinn with its stunning medieval centre, dating from 1248, and its thriving galleries, restaurants and bars is a must for the traveller. However for one week it is transformed into…
White Nights Festival 2021 Saint Petersburg, Russia
During the period of the White Nights Festival from June to July in Saint Petersburg, the sun never sets and the city never sleeps. Russia’s cultural capital…
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2020, Suffolk
Unfortunately the 2021 Bury St Edmunds Festival was cancelled. The 2022 Festival should go ahead in 2022. Spread over 11 days, in 12 different venues and with 50 different events…
Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival 2024, Thailand
The immensely popular Phi Ta Khon Festival – also known as the Ghost Festival – is the best reason to visit Loei, a Thai province rarely frequented by international tourists. This three-day event…
Frozen Dead Guy Days, Colorado, USA
Come March, Estes Park Nederland in Colorado hosts one of the quirkiest festivals in the US, if not the world. Frozen Dead Guy Days Nederland features frozen festivities with dozens…
Vinterjazz Festival Denmark 2025
Vinterjazz is a national festival which takes place every February across the whole of Denmark. It will feature hundreds of concerts in different venues from Aalborg, Aarhus…
Vibrant Hong Kong Arts Festival 2024
International top artists giving world class performances ranging from the classical to the avant-garde, and the familiar to the surprising – the Hong Kong Arts Festival is this vibrant city’s…
Trinidad Carnival, Port of Spain 2025
The World’s greatest party might be in Rio de Janeiro, but the Trinidad Carnival is a mix of centuries of tradition and solid fun, and is probably the most vibrant carnival in the Caribbean…
In The Round 2022, Roundhouse London
In recent years, the Roundhouse has done a little mid-winter shapeshifting. The great Victorian hemisphere in Camden Town, now one of London’s most cherished rock venues…
