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Top 10 USA destinations for Halloween
It's a veritable travel boo-for-all! All Hallows Eve continues to increase its "market share" as one of the year's most popular holidays, with ever more folks hopping on a plane to take part in the fun in their favorite cities, especially in the USA
Read more…2013 Tips for 1st timers to Fantasy Fest in Key West, Florida
Hello and get ready to the world of Fantasy Fest which has sometimes been referred to as Mardi Gras on Steroids....without the side effects.
I think if you check the tips & links below you will be more informed before you go as either a FF veteran o
Read more…A spin at the whirling dervish festival in Konya, Turkey
Three images are especially iconic when it comes to Turkey: the Blue Mosque of Istanbul, the library at Ephesus, and the whirling dervishes of Konya. But despite all the time I’ve spent in this country, until I visited the dervishes’ annual festival
Read more…This weekend's Feast of the Redeemer in Venice
One of Venice’s most popular festivals is now underway: the Festa del Redentore. Ermanno, one of our local guides in Venice, calls this his “favourite festival of the year” (as it is for many Venetians!) and he’s taking time today to share a bit of |
Experiencing Pamplona's Running of the Bulls
The 2013 Fiesta de San Fermín - better known to many as the Running of the Bulls - got underway today inPamplona, Spain. When I arrived here in the summer of 2010, I remember thinking it was hard to believe that the quaint little city of only 300,000
Festival season in Cuzco, Peru includes an Inca extravaganza
Cuzco, Peru during the latter half of June is one of the world's top travel destinations not just because of its bright, sunny weather and its astonishing ancients sites both in town (such as the Temple if the Sun) and nearby (Sachsayhuaman and of co
Read more…featured this week on our blog: Oktoberfest - O’zapft Is!
Pandemonium has been reigning over Munich for the last two weeks. Hordes of people wandered the cramped streets of the capital of Bavaria in hopes of finding a seat on a wooden bench under one of 14 tents. What kind of madness is this? Answer: The ki
2012 Tips for 1st timers to Fantasy Fest in Key West, Florida
Hello all FantasyFesters! Less than 50 days to go! (Oct. 19-28, 2012). And the parade's main theme this year (Fantasy Fest #33) is "A-Conch-Alypse" alluding to the end of the world in Dec. based on the Mayan Calendar.
The TravelSlut® 's Top Tips for
Read more…A Tale of Two Fairs
Catch up with the Cecil County (MD) Fair and the Delaware State Fair. http://gypsytales01.wordpress.com/
Read more…My tips for 1st time Fantasy Fest (Key West, Florida) attendees
Hello all FantasyFesters! Less than 35 days to go! (Oct. 21-Oct. 20, 2011). And the parade's main theme this year (Fantasy Fest #32) is "Aquatic Afrolic".
The TravelSlut® 's Top Tips for First Time Fantasy Fest attendees
You are in for a treat both fo