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Hindu Holi Festival Comes to Leicester

One of the most enjoyable festivals I’ve come across along my travels around the world has got to be Holi, the festival of colour that was being celebrated while I was travelling in India. My first encounter with the festival was seeing cows along the road all covered with bright colourful powder. As I arrived […]

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Leicester Comedy Festival: Everything You Need To Know

Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 is only days away. It contains over 400 live shows at 70 venues across 19 days in Leicester. The event is highly anticipated in and around the community. The rundown Leicester Comedy Festival has been running for 25 years now, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to come to a halt anytime […]

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The Lincolnshire Food and Gift Fair

The autumn leaves are dying away, and a chill is beginning to fill the air. Winter is on its way and Christmas is just around the corner. That’s right, if you haven’t already started, you better start thinking about Christmas shopping. But there’s no need to panic, as we have the perfect solution to solve […]

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Fun at a Chocolate Festival

Snizl Team – Out & About at ChocFest, Melton Mowbray On Sunday afternoon the Snizl Team were out and about in the Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray. Totally ignoring the famous local pork pies,  we headed to a sweet-toothed extravaganza known as ChocFest. This two-day Festival is held on Scalford Road at the towns cattle […]

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Our Love Affair with Artisan Chocolate

Chocolate by Chocolatiers Although National Chocolate Week ended a couple of weeks ago, chocoholics don’t really need an excuse to tuck into some fantastic artisan chocolate, whatever the time of year. The Flight to Quality Until a few years ago, the British chocolate market was dominated by the massively mass-produced brands such as Dairy Milk […]

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Day of the Dead – UK Tour!

The Day of the Dead, also known as All Souls Day and Dia de Muertos, is a widely celebrated tradition in Latin America and Mexico on November 2nd every year. The particularly interesting holiday collides with another on the 1st November, called All Saints Day. The indigenous people have combined both of these traditions in […]

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Halloween around the World

Halloween is one of the most popular holidays around the world with its popularity rising by the year. It is now the second most popular holiday in the UK and North America only being beaten by Christmas also being the second in terms of sales. It isn’t just about costumes and sweets however with many […]

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Oxfam’s Oxjam Music Festival 2017

Oxjam, the annual charity music festival held in the UK, and the largest! Is organised by the worldwide charity Oxfam. It goes to great lengths to bring you great musical entertainment in order to raise money for the charity Oxfam. Whose mission is to fight and end extreme global poverty for good. This one-day multi-venue music festival […]