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The Early Music Festival in Seville takes place from 6th to 20th March, opening in the Centro de Musicas Historicas Convento Santa Clara.The inaugural concert starts at 20.30 on the 6th with Geualdo da Venosa and Contemporaries. Through the week they are followed by Ventura Rico & Vie sur Mare, Nima ben David and more. The venue shifts to include the Centro Cultural Sala Joaquin Turina, Casino de la Exposicion and a number of others in the city.For more information on the Festival de Musica Antigua de Sevilla call +34 954 590 853 or email...

Friday, February 25, 2011


Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia is a superb art museum worthy of one of Spain’s greatest artists.The Fundacio Joan Miro was completed in the mid seventies, designed by Josep Lluis Sert, the architect latched on to the need to create an open space with inner courtyards and large terraces.There is an exhibition area within which is called Espai 13 devoted to displaying up and coming experimental artisits.The Fondation Joan Miro is located in the Parc de Montjuic and is open Tuesday to Saturdays from 10.00 to 19.00 and on...

Friday, February 25, 2011


La Tania Les 3 Vallees ski pass and piste details 2011. Here are prices in euros for the Three Valleys ski pass which allows you access to all of the 3 Valleys ski circuit from La Tania. The lifts are open from 11/12/10 to 25/04/11.                 Adult      Child      Senior     2 parents +     2 parents+     2 parents...

Thursday, February 24, 2011


Parc Aquanature Le Sterou deer park is a large area of over seventy hestares of woodland and meadow where up to one hundred and fourty deer and handsome stags are allowed to roam.Open from March to October, 11.00 to 19.00 daily, the entry fee for adults is around 9€ and 5.5€ for children.The park is a very natural setting for the deer to live and visitors are free to walk along the various trails and enjoy the Parc which is spread over six valleys through which the river Aer runs and feeds three lakes. There is also an aquarium to visit and the...

Thursday, February 24, 2011


Brittany sports and outdoor Leisure, our guide to sports and outdoor activities available for families and couples taking a holiday in Brittany.Golf in Brittany is well catered for with twenty seven golf courses throughout the region including some superb coastal greens. Ploemeur is a super coastal course near L’Orient, the Golf de Saint Laurent ranks amongst the top forty courses in France and the Saint Malo golf and country club is one of the latest additions.Wind surfing in Brittany is excellent as there is plenty of opportunity to find a bay...

Thursday, February 24, 2011


Rio Carnival, the worlds best known Carnival takes to the streets of Rio de Janeiro between 5 and 8 March 2011.The amount of time effort and money which goes into the Rio Carnival parades and floats is huge, reflecting the passion for carnival in the city of Rio. All the samba schools in Rio de Janeiro work tirelessly throughout the year preparing for Carnival time. One of the main storage areas was hit by fire recently and heartbreakingly many of the floats were destroyed. The admirable spirit of the organisers was to immediately set to work again to...

Wednesday, February 23, 2011


La Rosiere ski pass and piste details 2011. These are the La Rosiere Espace San Bernado ski pass prices in euro.The Espace San Bernado ski pass is the main ski area pass and covers La Rosiere which is in France and La Thuile which is in Italy. Here you can enjoy cross border skiing. There is a marginally cheaper option which is the Domaine La Rosiere pass which excludes the Italian area.            Children         ...

Wednesday, February 23, 2011


Pompeii a city destroyed yet preserved after the catastrophic eruption of the Mount Vesuvius, one of the worst natural disasters of all time.It is the sheer size and scale of Pompeii which takes most visitors by surprise as nothing really prepares you for street after street of archaeological remains suspended in time. As you walk along the stone cobbles you can’t help but visualise them full of life as they would have been moments before the pyroclastic flow swept down from the erupting volcano followed by heaps of volcanic ash.Out of the ashes...

Wednesday, February 23, 2011


Celebrating a Viking heritage is what the Jorvik Viking festival is all about and this years event takes place this week 19 to 27 February.In effect the Jorvik Viking festival is a re-enactment of the type of pitch battle which raged across northern England and in particular Yorkshire during the time of the Vikings. York is a great centre of Viking heritage and it is in York that the Norse warriers square up once again to the Saxons.The Viking king Jorvik actually ruled York between 866 and 952AD so this is no loose Viking connection. Local children are...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011


La Plagne ski pass and piste details 2001. These are the La Plagne Paradiski ski pass prices in euro.There are three principal types of ski pass available for La Plagne Paradiski, either the local La Plagne area or the local area with a day in the wider circuit or the wider circuit of La Plagne, les Arcs and Peisey Vallandry. There are also villages sector passes which are cheaper.               Adult         ...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011


Bayeux Tapestry, 1066 recorded in stitches in the Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Normandy, France.1066 is one of those dates engraved in the minds of England’s schoolchildren. The year of the Norman Conquest, when William the conqueror drove all before him and the English king Harold fell with an arrow in the eye.This fateful event in history was recorded on the most amazing and longest tapestry of all time, the Bayeux Tapestry which includes six hundred and thirty two men, forty one ships, fifty five dogs and two hundred and two horses. The...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011


Saint Barths Bucket Regatta, Saint Barthelemy, Caribbean 2011 takes place between 24th and 27th March and this year is the twenty fifth year celebration event of the Buckets.It was in Nantucket that the first Bucket Regatta was “launched” by the captain of the eighty two foot Volodor, a Huisman Ketch, Roger Janes along with the captains of Flying Goose and Mandalay. Since then the event has gone from strength to strength becoming the main Mega Yacht Regatta until the last in 2001 when the event moved to Newport.The St. Barths Bucket began in...

Sunday, February 20, 2011


Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, Cape Town, South Africa 2011 takes place 13 March. The World’s biggest clocked cycle tour is known to attract up to thirty five thousand contestants.The Cape Argus Pick ‘n’ Pay Cycle Tour races over 109km around the beautiful Cape and attracts riders from over twenty countries. There is a wide range of categories, even tandems compete here. A fabulous event for riders and spectators alike set amidst absolutely beautiful scenery. For more information call +27 (0) 21 685 6551 or email...

Saturday, February 19, 2011


Mother Temple of Besakih, Bali, Indonesia is the largest, most important and most holy of the Agama Hindi Dharma temples on the beautiful island of Bali.Agama Hindi Dhama is the Indonesian version of Hindu practiced in Bali by over ninety percent of the islands population.Located at Basakih, a village on the slopes of Mount Agung, the main volcano on Bali, in the east of the island. The temple is comprised of 22 temples which are spread over terraces on different levels, with the principal Meru spire, Pura Penatara Agung, which houses the lotus throne,...

Thursday, February 17, 2011


 
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