Pirates Week Festival. Cayman Islands PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles The Pirates Week Festival is the biggest annual event in the Cayman Islands, drawing over 35,000 patrons each year. During this time the islands are transformed into a mass of colour and r [.....]

Hogmanay, Edinburgh PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner. It is normally followed by further celebration on the morning of Ne [.....]

Edinburgh Festival Fringe PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles The Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 55,000 performances of 3,548 different shows in 317 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative [.....]

Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual drama, held on 30 April on Calton Hill (map) in Edinburgh. While the festival draws on a variety of historical, mythologic [.....]

Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Speyside is a "protected region" for Scotch Whisky distilling under UK Government legislation. According to Visit Scotland, this region includes the area between the Highlands to the west, Ab [.....]

Lewes Bonfire PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Lewes Bonfire or Bonfire for short, describes a set of celebrations held in the town of *Lewes (map), England, that constitute the United Kingdom's largest and most famous *Bonfire Night festivities, with Lewes b [.....]

Notting Hill Carnival PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean carnival event that has taken place in London since 1966 on the streets of the Notting Hill area (map) of Kensington, each August over two days (the August [.....]

Glastonbury Festival PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (map) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in *Pilton, *Somerset. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hos [.....]

WOMAD Festival — World of Music, Arts, Dance PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles WOMAD is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and dance. The first WOMAD festival was in Shepton Mallet, UK in 1982. WOMAD in the UK takes place in the grounds of Char [.....]