Pongal is both a harvest festival, which starts today, and the rice and dal breakfast dish eaten to mark its arrival
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A very Derry Halloween: a carnival of frights, fireworks and parades
Derry’s Halloween celebration is Europe’s biggest, one of the highlights of its cultural calendar with a week of creative events
Starry, starry nights: dark skies festival in North Yorkshire
The UK’s Dark Skies Festival began on 13th February, offering stargazing in the best light – real dark. Our writer spies the heavens in North Yorkshire
Ai Weiwei installation set to shine at Amsterdam Light Festival
The Chinese artist’s piece, Thinline, which represents a theoretical border, takes pride of place among 36 installations at the city’s land- and canal-based annual light festival
Nantucket cranberries – painting the Massachusetts island red
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without cranberries but the fruit was revered by Native Americans before the founding fathers arrived. The autumn harvest still turns the fields of Nantucket a glorious scarlet
The Belgian festival where the fountains flow with gin
In Belgium, jenever, the juniper-infused gin prototype, is still a popular tipple and is celebrated each October with a riotous festival in the town of Hasselt
Summertime … and Lisbon’s jazz festival is free – and a great way to see the city
The Out festival sees jazz concerts (plus soul, funk and hip-hop) in city parks and at the seaside in Cascais and Estoril every weekend until the end of September
Party in the sea – between the Isles of Scilly
The Low Tide Event is the ultimate pop-up, a mini festival held only twice a year when the sea recedes far enough to expose a sandbank linking Tresco and Bryher
Six of the best festivals on the UK coast this summer
From opera to sand sculptures and morris dancing to Madness, there’s loads of festival fun to be had on or near the beach this summer
Grazie mille, maestro: Monteverdi’s Venice
The 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth is the cue for a year of music in his home town
Julian Worker Travel - A few ideas for your next trip in every direction 