spring

1 October 2015

The April holiday in Seville

Seville, Spain

It’s like summer when you arrive in Seville for the April Holiday. Stepping from the plane there is a strange note in the air, a euphoria which builds as you approach the city and takes the initial form of barely concealed amazement, shortly after this gives way to the conviction of being in the right […]

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28 September 2015

In Marocco for the Gnaoua Festival

, Morocco

The Gnoua and World Music Festival has been held every year in Essaouira since 1998. Its name expresses its mission, its originality and the reason for its success. The festival is a meeting place for a dialogue between cultures and styles of music from different parts of the world. Its objective has always been exchange, […]

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30 September 2015

The Boat Race, the challenge between Oxford and Cambridge

London, United Kingdom

The referee clasps an 1829 gold coin, around him the tension is sky high. Tens of thousands of spectators lining the banks of the Thames hold their breath as they wait for the toss. It’s the turn of the challenger, the president of the losing club from the previous race, to choose heads or tails. […]

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In Venice for the Festa della Sensa

Venice, Italy

The shouts of the oarsmen mingle with the strokes of the clock tower and the rumble of the jet skis. Some kayaks stand out among the traditional festively decorated and adorned gondolas. It is the procession for the Festa della Sensa. On a clear warm Spring morning the calm waters that caress Piazza San Marco […]

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1 October 2015

In the States for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Orleans, United States

When Mahalia Jackson returned to Louisiana together with Duke Ellington in 1970 to attend the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the atmosphere at the event was so joyously chaotic that the Queen of Gospel forgot she was there simply as a spectator and she spontaneously began to sing together with the Eureka Brass […]

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Valborg Night, in Sweden for the beginning of Spring

Stockholm, Sweden

There’s always a motive to take off and leave everything behind. There’s always a reason to leave for a distant destination, for us Mediterranean people, inclined to smile, to reach that opposite, pensive world of Northern Europe. There are always reasons for major, or minor, upheavals. But there is one night more than any other, […]

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Salonicco in Greece for an Orthodox Easter

Salonicco, Greece

People arrive on a wave of enthusiasm for the films by Angelopoulos. A few steps in will reveal that there is a special energy: everyone is coming out onto the street to then enter the churches along the streets of the centre between the hills of the “high town” to the north and the promenade […]

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In Japan for the cherry blossom

Nishishinjuku(Tsuginobiruwonozoku), Japan

Hanami is the simple and sublime art of observing the cherry blossom in Japan. It’s a return to nature and being able to share times, methods, places and spectacles. It takes place here, in the most evocative place in the Orient, because if there is a place in the world where people nurture a genuine […]

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In Andalusia for Holy Week

Seville, Spain

In Seville, the week before Easter, the warm Spring air is scented with orange blossoms, candles and incense. This is how Holy Week in Seville announces its presence to travellers. The sweet, inebriating scent of over twenty-five thousand orange trees that line the streets of the city and mingles with the smell of hot wax […]

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In Holland for the tulip displays and the Keukenhof

Amsterdam, Netherlands

There are up to seven million flowers and not far off the wonderful displays of tulips. Keukenhof is the largest flower garden in the world situated in Lisse in the south of Holland. There’s just one week to admire an extraordinary natural beauty. © COPYRIGHT  

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