Every year in November, the popular Martinikirmes takes place. It is a real highlight: every year many people in the Ruhr area and the Lower Rhine region look forward to this particularly beautiful fair.

The feast day of St. Martin of Tours on 11 November

In the English port town of Chatham, on the south bank of the River Medway in the county of Kent, about 54 km south-east of London, you will find the Chatham Snowsports Centre. In addition to various ski and snowboard slopes, which you can use in summer

Hohenbeilstein Castle, which dates back to the 11th century and is located above Beilstein in the district of Heilbronn, is home to the private Hohenbeilstein Castle Falconry Centre. Around 100 birds of prey from four continents such as buzzards, eagles,

The Alsfeld Whitsun Market is the largest folk festival in the region and takes place annually over Whitsun (from Friday to Whit Tuesday) on the forecourt of the Alsfeld Town Hall.

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By public transport:

- by train - Alsfeld railway

The traditional Britz tree blossom festival is a warm spring awakening under blossoming trees. The folk festival in the countryside invites you to the Parchimer Allee fairground next to the green Britz estate park.

Around 40 showmen have set up rides for

If you are in Tarragona, there is definitely no better place to stay than in one of the park's own hotels. Hotel Colorado Creek inspires its guests with the real era of the Wild West. Here you can feel like a real Wild West cowboy or cowgirl by spending

In Gruyères, Fribourg, about 125 km from Geneva, there is an Alpinecoaster to ride since 2008. You can also go hiking there. There are downhill carts and a mini golf course.

In the northern Slovakian municipality of Oščadnica, not far from the Polish border, the popular alpine adventure world Snowparadise - Veľká Rača Oščadnica is located on the Veľká Rača, a mountain massif in the Saybush Beskids. While ski and

In Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Württemberg, in south-west Germany, you will find the Mundenhof animal enclosure, which has been in operation since 1968. The Mundenhof is not just an animal enclosure, but is much more of a leisure and educational

Five and a half hours by plane from Los Angeles (alternatively, you could also row a good 4,100 kilometres), the Hawaiian archipelago lies in the middle of the northern Pacific Ocean. On the northernmost island of O`Ahu (where the capital Honululu is