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This should help you get started with some top picks http://tiny.cc/sbhwv Haworth in West Yorkshire is home to where the Bronte sisters wrote many of their literary classics (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights) but the surrounding countryside and towns are equally beautiful!

East End KNEES UP! I saw these two ladies at Bestival and they are absolutely amazing! Forget BoJo in the Queen Vic, if you fancy a real East End knees up, this is a singalong, cabaret and disco all in one!. It's on at the Hackney Empire, Mary Lloyd Bar, London http://www.hackneyempire.co.uk/17/visiting/marie-lloyd-bar.html Best dressed lad or lady in Red wins a prize. Tickets can be bought from www.WEGOTTICKETS.com. Cor Blimey Gov'nor!

Wild Food School Has anyone tried this? It was a really popular feature in Seize the Days a few weeks back and i'm off to Cornwall next week so was thinking of giving it a go.

Anyone else off to the Edinburgh Fringe this weekend?

I am so excited about going to this www.theworldfestival.com
The Capoeira Knights are meant to be amazing and don't forget Lonely Planet are supporting it too! Double whammy!

Oooh that was on my Australia one.

It's all about Bryan Adams & Tina Turner, It's Only Love - Meatloaf & Cher, Real Dead Ringer for Love, Don Henley, Boys of Summer and America, Horse with No Name. Rock on!!!

Songs for the Outback

Californication - the song, and the whole album by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Just reminds me of cruising through the outback...

Anything by Manu Chao - mainly because all the songs merged into one after the 3 day, 1,326 kilometre journey between Adelaide and Alice Springs!

BFI Mediatheque

Can’t believe more people don’t know about this http://tiny.cc/rbf2g

It’s at the BFI on London’s South Bank, it’s free, and it has the most amazing archive of films and documentaries!

It makes the perfect shelter from the British summertime :-)

Hip hop, ya don't stop...

Fancy a bit of hip hop karaoke in London this Thursday? http://tiny.cc/NvrfM

The Glastonbury of Meatballs

Don't forget, you've still got time to get to Grottaglie in Puglia, Italy for their annual Sagra della Polpetta, or meatball festival. From September 6th to 7th, local townspeople will be selling insane numbers of delicious morsels from streetside stalls: big meatballs, small meatballs, long meatballs, spicy meatballs...some as big as your head!

Visit the Glorious Gower Festival

What: Gower Festival
Where: Gower Peninsular, Wales
When: 18th to 31st July

The Gower, that finger of land gesticulating just beyond Swansea, is one of Wales' most magical corners, a wild combination of beaches, sea cliffs and rolling meadowlands. It feels more like an island than part of the mainland, and retains its sense of remoteness despite the summer crowds. There is only one thing lovelier than being on the Gower in July, and that is to be here in July during the Gower Festival, when there are beautiful classical recitals taking place in its village churches: you can listen to a Bach choir, string quartet or piano trio before heading out to sip chilled white wine on the beach.

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