For more than a hundred years, Verona, Italy, has hosted one of the world's most famous opera festivals. The performances take place in a two-thousand-year-old open-air amphitheater with space for tens of thousands of spectators. The "Arena di Verona" is the same size as the Colosseum in Rome - and thus one of the largest arenas ever built during Roman times.
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Darkness descends over Smögen and the boat slowly glides out onto the almost black water. All around us, the rocks lie like dark silhouettes against the sky. But then suddenly something starts to move across the mountain in front of us… Shapes emerge, change and disappear. The rocks have suddenly become a gigantic canvas.
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How do you afford to travel so much? That's the question journalist and travel writer Heléne Katzman gets asked more often than anyone else. And perhaps it's not so strange.
In a typical year, she is home for about a month. The rest of the time, she finds herself somewhere between psytrance festivals around the world, family in Malaysia, and adventures and volunteer trips in Europe and South America.
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If you like castles, palaces and medieval towns, you should travel along the Burgenstrasse (Castle Road) in southern Germany. There are over 60 castles to visit here, spread across a number of locations. One of the most famous medieval towns is Rothenburg, which has a vibrant medieval culture that blooms several times a year.
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The Balloons Event Show Tunisia is a hot air balloon festival that aims to highlight the southern regions of Tunisia. The festival was organised for the first time this year and for more than a week, balloons could be seen rising over the island of Djerba and in the desert near Douz and Tozeur.
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Poland's wine culture is flourishing and really taking off. Every year, more vineyards are added and the wines are getting better. We visit Poland's biggest wine festival, which lasts a whole week but many people don't know about it. Here's what you need to know about Poland's wine culture.
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Sinulog Festival, or Santo Niño Festival as it is also called, is an intense and colourful festival held in Cebu City every January. While we missed the big festival, we got the chance to experience a smaller version on the island of Malapascua.
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Halloween in Derry, Northern Ireland, offers a Halloween party that is perhaps the best in the world. The Halloween parade is incredibly powerful and people really go all out when it comes to getting spooky. To be part of this was something very special. Here is a picture bomb!
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Updated: August 2026 | Autumn is the time for wine festivals in Germany. Every year during October and November you can find wonderful wine festivals, filled with wine, food and wine queens.
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Foodstock is a food festival that was organised at Fjäderholmarna this weekend. We visited the festival on Sunday, and had a nice summer day in the sun with interesting food experiences.
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