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The
last primo Europe Travel month, and in some ways the best; the weather's
still good[ish], the raging hordes are back at work, but there are
still things happening out there, although some tourist oriented
businesses close at the end of August.
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Europe
Festivities: see European
Festivals or Arts
Festivals for more suggestions, information and some
precise dates.
Italy:
Venice's Historical Regatta.
England:
London, Chelsea Antiques Fair
mid Sept.
Ireland:
Galway International Oyster Festival, [including song and dance,
of course!]4 days, late Sept.
Wales: Festival of Music and Arts, Swansea [theater/music/opera/dance]
3 weeks, Sept-Nov.
Germany:
Berlin Festival [music of all
sorts, drama, art] early Sept-mid-October.
Munich's Oktoberfest beer frenzy starts mid Sept - early October.
Czech
Rep., Prague, Autumn Festival
- orchestral concerts and opera.
Greece:
Athens Festival,
drama and music in ancient theatres. June-Sept.
Denmark: Arhus Festival [including a Viking Festival], varied music
and drama performances, 9 days beginning the first Saturday in September.
France:
Chaumont Garden Festival - thirty wonderful and sometimes wacky
show gardens around a perfect chateau [castle], every year 15 May-19
October.
For
sightseeing/culture:
Spain [esp.Barcelona,
Seville, Granada, Cordoba,
Madrid].
Portugal
[esp. Lisbon,
Sintra,
Evora].
Italy
[esp. Venice, Florence,
Rome, Siena,
Genoa,
Pompeii, Amalfi, Sicily].
Croatia [esp. Dubrovnik, Hvar, Zagreb, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Trogir].
Greece
[esp. Athens,
the Peloponnese peninsula, Meteora,
the
islands].
France
[esp. Paris, Ile-de-France, Loire
Valley, the Alps, Avignon, Arles, Riviera].
UK
[esp. London, Windsor, Stonehenge,
Dorset,
Stratford,
Oxford,
York,
Lake
District, Edinburgh].
Ireland
[Dublin, Kilkenny, Wexford].
Belgium
[esp. Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp,
Bruges, the Ardennes].
Switzerland
[esp. Zurich, Lausanne, Lucerne, Zermatt, Jungfrau Region]
Netherlands
[esp. Amsterdam, Keukenhof,
The
Hague, Delft,
Barrier Dam, Leiden].
Austria
[esp. Vienna, Salzburg,
St Wolfgang, Mutters, Portschach, Bad Aussee].
Germany
[esp. Berlin, Potsdam, Munich,
Berchtesgaden, Heidelberg,
Lubeck]
Hungary
[esp. Budapest, Szentendre,
Lake Balaton, Eger].
Czech
Rep. [esp. Prague, Bohemia
province, Karlovy Vary, Karlstejn castle].
Poland [from mid-May, esp. Krakow, Tatras Mountains].
Norway
[esp. Oslo, Bergen, Risor].
Sweden
[esp. Stockholm, Visby, Oland]
Finland
[Helsinki].
Russia,
St Petersburg.
European
Country Pictures:
Austria
| England
| Finland
| Greece
| Iceland
| Italy
| Netherlands
[Holland] | Norway
| Portugal
| Russia
| Spain
| Sweden
| Switzerland
| Turkey
European
City Pictures:
Amsterdam
| Athens
| Budapest
| Edinburgh
| Genoa
| Lisbon
| London
| Madrid
| Paris
| Prague
| Rome
| Venice
| Vienna
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