What do you know about the Samhuinn Fire Festival? If you’re anything like me, you probably don’t know much. And if I told you that Samhuinn takes place on the same…
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It was a chilly autumn morning in Edinburgh, and I was late for the Storytelling Festival. I wove my way past groups of tourists along the Royal Mile until I reached…
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On Kihnu island, the Night of Ancient Bonfires is just beginning. We stand on the sand, watching a modest group of Estonian musicians in traditional dress as they play a jaunty…
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I’ve been to a lot of music festivals, but Wilderness Festival is undoubtedly the fanciest. Wilderness is a four-day boutique festival held in early August each year set in the rolling…
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For most of the year, Hay-on-Wye is just a quiet Welsh village. But for ten days each spring, over 250,000 people descend on Hay-on-Wye. They fill the narrow streets, they book…
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Festivals India Photo of the Week PhotographyHoli Cow! Celebrating the Powder-Filled Colour Festival in Rural India
There’s nothing quite like India’s Holi Festival. Anywhere else in the world, a pink-paint-splattered cow wandering through the streets might seem a bit strange. But in India, nobody bats an eyelid.…
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We’re going ‘Doune The Rabbit Hole’… Up in the Scottish Highlands, close to the city of Stirling and down the road from the Lake of Mentieth, is a place called…
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“You always start with the senses.” I try my best to suffocate the sound of my growling stomach. There’s a Marks and Spencers sandwich hiding in my bag, but I don’t want…
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At over eight hundred years old, the medieval town of Cesis, Latvia looks exactly like you’d expect. The streets of Cesis, Latvia, are narrow and occasionally cobblestoned; the small squat houses are made…
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We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for the sake of auld lang syne… The last time I crossed over the border from England to Scotland, I was ten years old…