This travel calendar is useful in several ways. You can plan to hold a holiday to conincide with a festival which offers lights and parades, events, exhibitions and activities and excietment. Or you could seek to avoid the busy times with booked rooms and higher prices.
A Traveller’s Calendar
January
Jan 1 New Year’s Day. Concert, Vienna, Austria.
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USA Tournament of the Roses Parade, Pasadena, California
Orthodox Christmas Jan 7
Jan 5 Evening before Epiphany.
Jan 6 Greek & Russian Orthodox (Christian) Epiphany. (Birth of Jesus.)
Jan 26 Australia Day.
Burns Supper Night, Scotland.
Jan 27 Holocaust memorial day (liberation of Auschwitz in Poland)
Chinese New Year (Moving dates.)
February
Feb 6 New Zealand Waitingi Day
Feb 14 Valentine’s Day (Ireland, Italy and worldwide)
March
March 1st St David’s Day, Wales
March 17th Irish St Patrick’s Day
March 20 French Language Day
April
April 20th Chinese Language Day
April 23rd St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s Birthday.UN English Language Day.
Spanish Language Day.
April 25th Anzac Day (Australia and New Zealand)
May
May 1st Labor Day
May 5th Cinco de Mayo.
Jun
June 2nd Italian Feast of the Republic. Flypast of tricolor arrows, red/white/green flag colors
JUNE 6th UN Russian Language Day
20/21/22 Summer Solstice (Longest day)
July
Jul 4th American Independence
July 14th Bastille Day, France
July 18 Nelson Mandela Day
August
August 1st Swiss National Day
August 9th Singapore National Day
August 15th Indian Independence Day
September
Sept 21 Belize Independence Day Parade and Carnival
October
Canadian Thanksgiving, 2nd Monday in October.
October 3rd German Unity Day
October 31st Halloween
November
November 1st and 2nd Day of the Dead in Mexico
November 11th Remembrance Day (WWI Armistice, WW2 and all wars)
December
December 18th Arabic Language Day
December 24 Christmas Eve
Dec 25th Christmas Day
Dec 26th Boxing Day in the UK, St Stephen’s Day in Germany
Dec 31st New Year’s Eve. Midnight Mass.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_whose_capital_is_not_their_largest_city
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