DESTINATIONS EVENTS & FESTIVALS CRUISE
Pearl II is in Dartmouth, south Devon, for the town’s 2018 Royal Regatta (August 30-September 1), when dozens of sailing boats race on the River Dart. From £1,045 for six nights departing Dover on August 25. Or check out Edinburgh, which
comes alive in August when both the Fringe Festival – a celebration of theatre, comedy, cabaret and more – and Military Tattoo are in town (the dates this year are August 3-27 and August 3-25 respectively). Fred Olsen Cruise Lines’ passengers can enjoy both on a nine-night Lochs and Islands voyage around the UK from Dover on Boudicca that stays three nights in Rosyth (the port for Edinburgh) from August 5-7. From £1,299 departing July 30.
w CARNIVAL CAPERS Pack your feathers and sequins because we’re off to Rio Carnival, joining the millions who take to the streets for nine days of partying before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday (and, in theory, 40 days of abstinence). There are colourful floats, extravagant costumes, music and dance as the city’s top samba schools compete in the Sambadrome, a half-mile avenue-style stadium, hoping to be named champions. The 2019 carnival runs from
At Taiwan’s Pingxi Lantern Festival thousands of paper lanterns carrying wishes and prayers are released into the sky
March 1-9 and Azamara Pursuit, the ship joining Azamara Club Cruises this August, will be there for three days (March 3-5) on its 13-night Carnaval in Rio voyage round-trip from Buenos Aires departing February 24. It won’t be alone. Holland America
Line’s Veendam and Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Eclipse will also be there from March 3-5 so passengers have lots of time to join the revelry. From £1,835 cruise-only for Celebrity’s 11-night South America & Carnival Cruise, departing February 27, 2019. It is selling grandstand seats in the Sambadrome from £491. Celebrity also has a ship in New Orleans for three days for Mardi Gras (our Shrove Tuesday), which marks the culmination of a week or more of parades, floats and balls. It’s on March 5, 2019, and Celebrity Reflection will be there from March 3-5 on a
10-night Mardi Gras and Caribbean cruise round-trip from Fort Lauderdale. The American Queen Steamboat
Company is offering two nights in New Orleans during Mardi Gras at the end of a nine-day cruise on the Mississippi from Memphis. From £3,275 for 11 nights departing February 24, including flights, a pre-cruise night and tour in Memphis and two nights in the Big Easy.
w FIREWORK FUN Cruise passengers can start 2019 with a bang at the New Year’s Eve fireworks displays in Sydney with Azamara Club Cruises, or Funchal in Madeira with P&O Cruises or Cruise & Maritime Voyages. If they can’t wait that long, Princess’s eight-day Japan Explorer cruise from Yokohama is in Kumano for the city’s annual fireworks festival, when some 10,000 rockets are fired into the night sky. The cruise departs August 15 this year and also in 2019. From £1,319 cruise-only. Over in Italy, clients can
ABOVE: Pingxi Lantern Festival, Taiwan
LEFT: Royal Regatta, Dartmouth
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enjoy fireworks in Venice at the aforementioned Redentore festival, an annual celebration that gives thanks for the end of a plague in 1577 that killed some 50,000 people. The event, which includes a regatta on the Guidecca Canal, is on July 14-15 this year and Azamara will be there at the end of a nine-night cruise from Civitavecchia (the port for Rome). It
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