France: Ten top events for August
July 31, 2016
Despite some cancellations, there’s lots to do all over France in August, while most of France is on annual vacation.
Despite some cancellations, there’s lots to do all over France in August, while most of France is on annual vacation.
The electronic music festival, TomorrowWorld, in south Fulton County, Georgia was expected to bring an estimated 180,000 people over the weekend but closed attendance today for those not camping at the event site. Severe rain though…
Marilyn takes in performances at a jazz festival in Curacao
World Living Statues, Arnhem- 2014 The World Living Statue Festival on Sept. 26 and Sept. 27, 2015 in Ede and Arnhem, the Netherlands, is expected to draw more than quarter million visitors and…
Photo by Mac Tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims washed away their sins with a religious dip at Nashik on Saturday. It marked the first bathing
The town of Fanzara in rural Castellon has just over 300 residents and some of the most colorful and unusual art to be seen anywhere. It’s just celebrated its second annual urban art festival. The festival uses the walls of the village as a canvas for…
With August and the traditional French exodus to the beach just ahead, visitors might wonder just what there is to do in Paris, or in France generally.
What’s being billed as the world’s largest sauna, holding 100 visitors, has been set up on a beach in northern Norway, inside the Arctic Circle,
I enjoy visiting festivals and special gatherings, especially in smaller cities and towns (where the crowds aren’t so overwhelming). Fodors recently featured a listing of some of their favorites in the USA, many of which I’d not heard of…
Originally from the sub-Saharan (“Sahel”) regions of Africa, notably Senegal, the Gwana are ritual musicians who originally came to Morocco as slaves in the 15th and 16th century from the vast Songhai Kingdom.
Despite some cancellations, there’s lots to do all over France in August, while most of France is on annual vacation.
The electronic music festival, TomorrowWorld, in south Fulton County, Georgia was expected to bring an estimated 180,000 people over the weekend but closed attendance today for those not camping at the event site. Severe rain though…
Marilyn takes in performances at a jazz festival in Curacao
World Living Statues, Arnhem- 2014 The World Living Statue Festival on Sept. 26 and Sept. 27, 2015 in Ede and Arnhem, the Netherlands, is expected to draw more than quarter million visitors and…
Photo by Mac Tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims washed away their sins with a religious dip at Nashik
The town of Fanzara in rural Castellon has just over 300 residents and some of the most colorful and unusual art to be seen anywhere. It’s just celebrated its second annual urban art festival. The festival uses the walls of the village as a canvas for…
With August and the traditional French exodus to the beach just ahead, visitors might wonder just what there is to do in Paris, or in France generally.
What’s being billed as the world’s largest sauna, holding 100 visitors, has been set up on a beach in northern
I enjoy visiting festivals and special gatherings, especially in smaller cities and towns (where the crowds aren’t so overwhelming). Fodors recently featured a listing of some of their favorites in the USA, many of which I’d not heard of…
Originally from the sub-Saharan (“Sahel”) regions of Africa, notably Senegal, the Gwana are ritual musicians who originally came to Morocco as slaves in the 15th and 16th century from the vast Songhai Kingdom.