Every year around the world there are bizarre festivals where people celebrate by throwing food. Tomatoes In Buñol, Spain, the festival of La Tomatina is held every summer. A truckload of tomatoes is dispensed, and everyone throws them at each other for an hour. It’s seriously messy, but you can swim in the river afterwards. [more...]
Summer Dreams – Art Print – Mitchell, Steven – Buy at AllPosters.com Watermelon straight from the fridge is very refreshing in summer, but it can be fiddly to prepare and awkward to eat. Most of the complication is due to the many pips. There are basically two approaches. You can leave the pips (seeds) in [more...]
If you want to celebrate May Day as a family, or with a larger group of kids, try planning some activities based on old traditions. Creating your own festival is just as good as going to see a parade, or watching other people dancing round a maypole. And you can do both! May Day in [more...]
The date of Easter varies each year. Roughly speaking, it’s the Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox, but it’s a bit more complicated than that (see: How is the date of Easter calculated?). Here are all the dates of Easter Sunday for this century: 23 April 2000, 15 April 2001, 31 March [more...]
Sidmouth is a quiet retirement town in Devon, with a population of 15,000. But the first week of August each year is Sidmouth Folk Week, when the town is completely taken over by a huge folk festival which has been running for over 50 years. Dance marquees are erected in Blackmore Gardens and feature a [more...]
Surely the most fun you can have with tomatoes is at the tomato throwing festival held each year in Buñol, Spain? Food fights don’t get much better than this! This unusual festival started in 1945 when a fight broke out during a parade and the miscreants raided a market stall for tomatoes to throw at [more...]