Saturday, January 4, 2014

Planning around events



As I'm trying to figure out dates to travel to the UK I've been looking around for events I might want to attend.

The last big trip I took, New Orleans last June, was so much richer because I found a really cool, free event I wanted to attend: the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Music Festival. I highly recommend this festival. Last year it was located on the grounds of the Old Mint Building, but this year is being held in Louis Armstrong Park. I think the park will be a better setting for it, although the Old Mint Building is located right next to the French Market, very close to the banks of the Mississippi River. The Louis Armstrong Park is a lovely greenspace on the southern edge of the Treme neighborhood, and is not far from where I stayed in New Orleans.

I am now looking for an event somewhere in the UK that roughly matches my window of opportunity to go. So far, I haven't found anything that is really grabbing me. I only started looking today - pretty lame. The longer I leave it the harder it is going to be to plan for it. I know there are going to be a lot of events in Scotland this year as they are hosting another Homecoming (tourist gimmick to get people to visit there) but I haven't found one that has attracted my imagination. I am starting to look at things like TimeOut London, but they don't go very far into the future.

I am tentatively looking for something wonderful between April 26 and May 18. If you have any suggestions, intrepid traveller, please do share them with me. Kind thanks.