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Article Title: London's Calypso Carnival

Festival Name: Notting Hill Carnival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

But all that changes on the August bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street party and second only in the world to Rio's Carnaval - swings and sways its way into W11.

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Article Title: Hogmanay

Festival Name: Hogmanay

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): New Year, Party

Hogmanay is the traditional Scottish New Year's Eve festival celebrated on December 31. It is a huge affair which often includes many celebrations and parties for which tickets are sold.

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Article Title: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Festival Name: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Varied, Performing Art, Party

Glastonbury - the best known, most written about festival since Woodstock - may seem familiar even to those who haven't been there. Everyone's seen all those images of mud-larking. But it's well worth making the effort to actually attend a 21st century Glasto.

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Article Title: Getting Ready for the Glastonbury Festival

Festival Name: Glastonbury Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Rock, Party, Music - World

I want to be buried in mud, rained on in the dance tent by human feces, surrounded by deliciously bizarre people, and maybe (hopefully) catch some of the world's best electronic music performers along the way.

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Article Title: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Festival Name: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Fringe, Performing Art, Comedy

The Fringe is an immense gathering of artists, musicians, dancers and actors coming from over 40 countries to perform in over 250 venues. Search for a show on the Fringe website and you will have to sift through a mere 1,909 shows. It would take five years, three months, and 25 days to see every performance in the Fringe 2005 back to back.

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Article Title: Hooray For The Fringe! Your Fringe lowdown...

Festival Name: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Fringe, Comedy, Performing Art

To anyone except the actor, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is annual paradise. For five frantic weeks the elegant seaside city of Edinburgh resigns itself to theatrical hijack. From all corners of the globe dramatic and musical troupes descend on Scotland's capital to tempt, cajole, and dazzle the spectator into parting with their pounds: in exchange for laughter, tears, derision, and amusement.

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Article Title: Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling

Festival Name: Cheese Rolling

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional

I never expected to spend my May Bank Holiday weekend as a participant in one of Europe's wackiest and most dangerous events, but there I was, perched atop a huge, steep, bumpy hill in Gloucestershire as an entrant in the third race of the day, about to throw myself down after a piece of rolling cheese.

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Article Title: Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire

Festival Name: Cheese Rolling

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Harvest

Wherever it's origins it's hard to argue that cheese rolling is a sport for the outrageously courageous or at least the dangerously demented. Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.

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Article Title: Mower Racing

Festival Name: Mower Racing World Championships

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Motor Sport

An English rally-car racer, frustrated by the rising costs of his sport, debuted the event in 1973: Lawn-mower racing offers an inexpensive, accessible event with no lingering misgivings about whether or not to bag your clippings.

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Article Title: Toe Wrestling

Festival Name: World Toe Wrestling Championships

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre

Every year, competitors from as far as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany travel to the Bentley Brook Inn in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, for the world's least furtive and most aggressive game of footsie: The World Toe Wrestling Championship

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Article Title: Shrovetide Football

Festival Name: Shrovetide Football

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party

Imagine an NFL football game. Now, round out that ball, lose the shoulder pads, and add a few hundred or even a thousand players to each team. Okay, now move the end zones three miles apart, and dam a river at the 50-yard line. Now you're ready for some Royal Shrovetide Football

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Article Title: Extreme Coldwater Swimming Championships

Festival Name: Winter Swimming Championships

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Water, Sport - Extreme, Bizarre

It's true: some do like it hot. The rest, on the other hand, drink Brass Monkeys, Blue Tits, and Chilly Willy: The only three beers served at the Winter Swimming Championships

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Article Title: Burning the Clocks in Brighton

Festival Name: Burning the Clocks

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Solstice, Pagan, Street Parade

About a mile down the promenade from Brighton Pier, people congregate and gaze out over the silent beach towards the calm silhouette of a wicker king. They throng in the gathering darkness of the year's longest night, kids and adults jostling and stretching to get the best view. Except for their shuffling and whispering all you can here is the wind, and the slow ominous tattoo of the single drum.

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Article Title: One Love Festival

Festival Name: One Love Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Reggae, Party

One Love Festival celebrates the anniversary of Bob Marley's infamous 1978 One Love concert and offers you four days and nights of pure reggae love

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Article Title: The Common Ridings of the Scottish Border

Festival Name: Common Ridings - Hawick

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Traditional, National, Party

For centuries the Scottish border towns of Hawick, Jedburgh, Lauder and Selkirk have been keeping a watchful eye on their southern neighbours, the ever-so-meddlesome English. In years past these Common Ridings of the Scottish border were horseback patrols to ensure those southerners knew where their boundary ended and the Scottish frontier began.

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Article Title: Lulworth Castle Medieval Festival

Festival Name: Lulworth Castle Medieval Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Medieval, Historical

Lulworth Castle is a gem though, with round towers at each corner, every child's picturebook vision, and the Festival was arranged to take full advantage of this with the Arena right in front of the main entrance. I had rented a holiday cottage in the village for the weekend, and arrived on the Friday afternoon.

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Article Title: Bedfordshire Medieval Festival

Festival Name: Bedfordshire Medieval Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Medieval

Fayre opened with a ground-shaking explosion as the gunners from the Compagnie of Saynte Barbara fired their fearsome one-and-a-half tonne siege engine, the Bombard, to let people know that the programme of demonstrations and displays was about to begin

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Article Title: Santa Run

Festival Name: Santarun

Festival Country: Wales

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Christmas

Surreal was not the right word. The sea of crimson that stretched behind me deserved something more than that. This was more of a crazed hallucinogenic trip, a dream that I could wake up from at any second. This was either the work of a madman or a genius. But, as they say, 'when in Rome...'

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Article Title: Canada Day in London

Festival Name: Canada Day

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): National, Historical, Party

Canadians seldom get vocal about much. There are loads of us in London but we never make ourselves known like our fellow Aussie and Kiwi working holidaymakers. A big reason for that could be that we don't have many events in London to support, but when July 1st rolls around, Canadians flock to the Maple Leaf pub in Covent Garden to show their patriotism.

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Article Title: Respect

Festival Name: Respect Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Multicultural, Music - World, Music - Varied

It was a beautiful summers day in London and I was on the way to RESPECT - an Anti-racism and Multicultural Festival. This annual event has been held in July, for the past 2 years in various parks around London. This year the festival was held in Victoria Park, Hackney.

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Article Title: The Festival of the Soggy Bed and Some Guy Called Our Pat

Festival Name: The Championships - Wimbledon

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Racquet, Traditional

As far as sporting festivals go they don't come much purer than the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club's annual Championships, at Wimbledon.

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Article Title: Isle of Iona - Innis na Druineach

Festival Name: Isle of Iona Festival

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Local, Party

Visitin' yer unsestors r ye?' The driver asked as I gratefully climbed into his clapped out old van. I ignored his mistaken questioning. A mistake caused by my red hair, a mistake I was hearing all the time in Scotland. 'Are you going as far as Tobermory?' I asked hopefully, by way of a response. I was going to the 'capital' of The Isle of Mull, the third largest island in the Scottish Hebrides.

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Article Title: Moments of Magick at the Stones

Festival Name: Summer Solstice

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Solstice, Pagan, Folk

Me, I haven't rebounded on Earth since the Stones. Not yet. I'm a day back and my head is still somewhere on that wind, rain and mist-filled Plain of Salisbury. The Y2K solstice party seemed to be full of good vibes.

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