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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Celebrating Thanksgiving Day, Macy's colourful parade is one of New York's best. It features clowns, floats, marching bands and plenty of celebrities. Gigantic helium balloons shaped like…
PortAventura theme park, near Barcelona in north-east Spain, crams thrilling rides, shows, restaurants and shops into its impressive site on the Costa Dorada. The park is divided into five…
New Year at the Brandenburg Gate
Each year, thousands of revellers see in the New Year at the Brandenburg Gate. Silvester, as it is known in Germany, is celebrated with spectacular midnight fireworks, plenty of…
Chinese New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong
Join in the vibrant Chinese New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong. The New Year Night Parade hits Tsim Sha Tsui East on the Kowloon peninsula with a cavalcade of colourful floats, dragon dancers…
Winter Restaurant Week in New York City
For two weeks every winter, thousands of New York City's best restaurants offer lunches and dinners at greatly discounted prices.
The Venice Carnival is the highlight of the city's year. A two-week series of processions, masquerades, traditional ceremonies, music and all-round festivities fills the canals, squares and…
More than a theme park, Alton Towers is a British institution and one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country, with three million visitors every year. Large scale white-knuckle rides…
The St Patrick's Festival in Dublin is the country's largest annual event, lasting for five days with activities including street theatre, fireworks, music, dance, comedy, film, a treasure…
Queen's Day celebrates the birthday of the former Queen Juliana and is one of the largest, most vibrant celebrations in the Dutch calendar. Flags fly, music pumps and millions take to the…
Aalborg plays host to a massive carnival parade each May. Around 25,000 people participate and more than 100,000 join in along the route. The big street party has been going strong since 1982.
Glastonbury has been held on organiser Michael Eavis' property, Worthy Farm in Somerset, since its inception almost 40 years ago. Headlining the UK's biggest and best music festival in 2009…
Summer Restaurant Week in New York City
New York City is blessed with thousands of fantastic restaurants. During Summer Restaurant Week (which actually stretches over two weeks) some of the very best offer three-course prix-fixe…
Around a million people hit Notting Hill's streets in West London for Europe's biggest carnival. Fabulous floats make a colourful circuit of the area and sound systems blast out music all day.…
Down your share of six million litres of the finest Bavarian beer, tuck into local delicacies and party like there's no tomorrow at Munich's Oktoberfest. It's known by locals as the "Wies'n"…
More than a theme park, Alton Towers is a British institution and one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country, with three million visitors every year. Large scale white-knuckle rides…
PortAventura theme park, near Barcelona in north-east Spain, crams thrilling rides, shows, restaurants and shops into its impressive site on the Costa Dorada. The park is divided into five…
Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
The Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida, is one of the world's premier vacation destinations, with entertainment on offer for all ages and tastes. Magic Kingdom was the first part of…
Created by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the 1600s, Rome's Parco Villa Borghese offers incredible views over the Eternal City and a vast green space for relaxation and outdoor activities.
Dip into outer space at the fascinating Houston Space Center, brought to you by NASA. Here you can watch IMAX films, feel what it's like to walk on the moon and experience the various…
The Colosseum offers an unrivalled insight into life in ancient Rome. This stadium, which seated 50,000 people, dominates the historic centre. Crowds came to watch brutal gladiatorial…