Tripsdrill is the place to be! The theme park with over 100 original attractions on the theme of Swabia in 1880 offers thrills with roller coasters and a freefall tower, as well as leisurely boat tours and the opportunity to stop off at an inn. All this

The Heiligenkirchen Bird Park is located in Detmold between Lemgo and Paderborn. Specialising in exotic birds and small mammals, the park has been in existence since 1969. 300 species of animals live here on an area of around 4 ha. In addition to a

The SEA LIFE Lido di Jesolo is just a few meters from the New Jesolandia amusement park. It is one of several aquariums run by the Merlin Group, which also owns the Legoland parks, Madame Tussauds, Gardaland or Heide-Park. Each of the aquariums is

Canton, the capital of Van Zandt County in the north-east of the US state of Texas, is home to a farm experience with a difference: Yesterland Farm. What began in 1994 with the planting of Virginia Pine and Lob-lolly Pine, developed over the years into a

The largest funfair in Münsterland takes place three times a year. Every year, up to 200 fairground attractions take place on the 32,000 square metre Schlossplatz. A big fireworks display on Friday evening is always part of the event.

In the elegant art city of Aix-en-Provence, the Foire aux Manèges provides a lively contrast to the otherwise tranquil Provençal way of life. Every spring, the area around the Stade Carcassonne is transformed into a dazzling sea of lights that attracts

Right on the Vitava reservoir, in the very south of the Czech Republic and only 55 kilometres south of ?eské Bud?jovice (and thus only a handful of kilometres from the Austrian border), there is an Alpine coaster and a summer toboggan run in Lipno, a

In the English county of Leicestershire, about 24 km north-east of Leicester and 29 km south-east of Nottingham, you will find Twinlakes Family Theme Park, which opened in September 2003 after only eleven months of construction. The park is open all year

The Winterberg Fair is a traditional folk festival that is considered one of the highest-altitude fairs in North Rhine-Westphalia. It takes place annually in August and transforms the central fairground ‘Am Rad’ into a lively festival site.

The festival

Dublin Zoo, located in the Irish capital of Dublin, is the fourth-oldest zoo in the world. It was opened on September 1, 1831, by the Zoological Society of Dublin with 46 mammals and 72 birds, which were donated by the London Zoo. Today, the 28-hectare