May Events 2010 |
| Date |
Events |
| 28 April - 3 May |
ENGLAND, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham International Jazz Festival - the UK's top jazz fest in a lovely location. |
| 14 May - 20 June |
AUSTRIA Vienna Festival - this 5 week event offers a wide range of arts, especially music, naturally, but also dance and theatre, sometimes challenging pieces but all set in magnificent buildings. |
| 30 May TBC |
BELGIUM, Mons, Battle of Lumecon and the Procession of the Golden Chariot, Le Doudou - Saint George fights the dragon and everybody pushes a vast and holy chariot around town. |
| 10 May - 27 July TBC |
RUSSIA, St Petersburg, the White Nights Festival in gorgeous, romantic and endlessly light St Pete. The "Stars of the White Nights" [21 May - 19 July 2010] with a series of opera and ballet performances is the most important part of the Festival. |
| 7 May - 2 June TBC |
CZECH REPUBLIC Prague Spring International Music Festival - one of Europe's best music events in medieval Prague. |
| 12- 23 May |
FRANCE Cannes International Film Festival - the world's most glamorous film festival, every year. |
| 29 May - 19 Oct [same dates every year] |
FRANCE Chaumont International Garden Festival - 30 wonderful and sometimes wacky show gardens around a perfect chateau [castle], every year. |
| 17 May [same date every year] |
NORWAY, Oslo Constitution Day - celebrates independence from Denmark, with folk music, parades, entertainment and people in traditional costumes. |
| 25 - 29 May |
ENGLAND, London, RHS Chelsea Flower Show - 11 acres of the UK's [and arguably Europe's] best flowers and gardens event, with plenty of original, even wacky ideas. |
| 22 May - 6 June |
ENGLAND, Somerset Bath International Music Festival - classical and other musical styles in this, the most classical of all UK cities. |
| 28 May - 20 June [Festival] 19 June for the Parade |
GERMANY Christopher Street Day [Berlin CSD Parade] and Lesbian and Gay Festival [Berlin Pride Festival] in Berlin - probably the biggest European gay parade and street party. |
| 31 May [same date every year] |
ENGLAND Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling near Brockworth in Gloucester - dozens of borderline bonkers men fling themselves down a precipitous hill attempting to catch huge rounds of cheese. |
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