Making life a holiday with interesting vacation and adventure ideas.

Having posted the occasional article here, tracing the river Danube from its source in Germany to the Black Sea, it was nice to learn that a team of Kayakers, twin sisters Chrissy and Eve Conyers, with their friends Wayne and Josh, are setting out on June 26 from Regensburg, Germany, to paddle about 2500 km to the Romanian estuary.

The group are using the trip to raise money for the children of CanTeen, who have grown up living with cancer. The girls have been members of CanTeen throughout their childhood because their brother, Adrian has been battling with a brain tumor. CanTeen is an Australian support organisation for young people (aged 12-24) that are living with the disruption of cancer; this includes ot only the cancer patients themselves, but their brothers and sisters and also young people with parents or primary carers with cancer.

German football fans are now heading to Vienna for the Euro 2008 final, so they have chosen a particularly exciting time for their adventure. Let's wish Team Kayak luck and if you are able to support them with a sposorship donation, go to Eveyday Hero, where you will be able to make a donation and enable them to 'Raise More Than a Sweat for CanTeen'.

Labels: 2008, Austria, Danube, Germany, kayaking, Regensburg, river, Romania, Vienna

An eye popping and mind blowing exhibition of antiquities, 'Roman Art from the Louvre', opens on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at the Seattle Art Museum and runs through May 11, 2008.

The exhibition is a sample of the collection held at the French Louvre, said to be the largest collection of Roman art in the world outside of Italy. 'Roman Art from the Louvre' features nearly 200 objects and takes up the entire fourth floor in the south wing of the Seattle Art Museum.

Labels: archaeology, art, Louvre, Museum, Romania, Seattle Art Museum, USA

Liverpool, UK, is gearing up for major events to celebrate the 800th anniversary of its first royal charter. There will be one hell of a party around August, including the Hub, billed as the UK's largest, free, urban youth festival, which takes place at Otterspool Promenade on 14 and 15 July, 2007. Then next year, Liverpool becomes the European Capital of Culture 2008; this year's European Capital of Culture is Sibiu, Romania.

Hub is into its fifth year, and promises two days of live music, skating, skateboarders, parkour, BMX bikers, adrenaline wind tunnel, street art, urban fashion and more.

Labels: 2007, 2008, art, BMX, European Capital of Culture, fashion, festival, Hub, Liverpool, Parkour, Romania, Sibiu, skateboarders, skating, UK, urban