The Best Festivals to visit this March.

Festival Fun in the UK

If you think festivals are all about music, mud and queuing for chemical toilets, think again.Traditional Festivals can be found throughout the world with unique and very lively celebrations. 

So where should you go to get a festival fix this March? 

Valencia is Spain's third largest city and worth a visit at any time. It provides the ideal venue to blast away the winter cobwebs. Las Fallas takes place between 15-19 March each year in this coastal city with an average temperature in March of 18c.

Months to build, much less to burn down

    

Calm before the Fire storm

Whilst Gary Neville may not be setting the world on fire at Valencia's football club, this festival is quite literally on fire. 

Las Fallas is extreme Spring cleaning and involves huge parades of fallas (large effigies) and ninots (smaller ones) to a background of music, food and spectacular fireworks. 

The culmination of the festival is the burning of the fallas followed by an all night party.

GO: to experience a very loud, proud and spectacular show;

DON'T GO: if you want quiet, early nights;

FLY: to Valencia from Gatwick (BA, EasyJet) or Stansted (Ryanair).  

Semana Santa in Seville

For a more traditional experience in Spain, the Easter week (Semana Santa) is a more remorseful but no less spectacular event involving parades and floats. Celebrated throughout Spain (Easter Sunday is 27 March this year) it is best seen in Andalusia.

Seville and Malaga are famous of their elaborate displays and Malaga born Antonio Banderas is a regular attendee, such is the status of the occasion. The mild climate and great restaurants make for a great short break destination.  

GO: to share in this experience at the heart of Catholic Spain;
DON'T GO: if you want fireworks or a selfie with Mr Banderas
FLY: to Seville from Gatwick (BA, EasyJet) or to Malaga from many parts of the UK with, amongst others, Monarch, EasyJet and Ryanair.  

It's a party and everyone is invited!

Finally, possibly the most celebrated event in the world when everybody becomes Irish for the day. It can only be St Patrick's Day of course which is celebrated on the 17th March this and every year.

Much imitated but if you want to get a real feel for the occasion and enjoy a parade with a few pints of the black stuff when the country goes into party mode, you have to visit Dublin. It will be a crowded sea of green and officially the party lasts for four days so what's not to like?

GO: to the spiritual home of this global phenomenon;
DON'T GO: for the weather or if you are drying out
FLY: Ryanair flies to Dublin from most parts of the UK

The Dublin Parade on 17th March

To enquire about availability to these places or anywhere else for that matter, please contact me as follows:
w: http://eyelinetravel.co.uk 
e: david@eyelinetravel
t: 020 8123 2569
https://www.facebook.com/EyeLine-Travel-887469098039411/

Remember, travel the experience to experience travel!

More next time.

David Sutherland
EyeLine Travel (ABTA L3832)
4 February 2016