Making life a holiday with interesting vacation and adventure ideas.

The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show opens its doors again Friday 14th March to Sunday 16th March 2008 at the NEC, Birmingham, UK.

There will be plenty of activities on offer. You can get a taster dive session, scale a wall of ice, tackle high ropes and try out a mountain bike on a dirt track. Then you can listen to first-hand accounts of the travels of famous adventurers and learn how to explore the world yourself. There will be the usual map-reading tutorials and also the opportunity to learn about surviving in the wild.

Labels: 2008, activities, adventure, exhibition, map, NEC, outdoors, travel, UK

The annual "Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light" at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry runs through January 6, 2007. It features more than 50 trees, each decorated by volunteers from Chicago's ethnic communities to reflect holiday traditions from around the globe, and has been dazzling families for 66 years.

The museum celebrates its 75th year in 2008. More information from the MSI Chicago website.

Labels: 2007, 2008, Chicago, Christmas, exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, USA

The Daily Telegraph's Adventure Travel Show returns on Friday 25 through Sunday 27, January 2008 and this year is at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

Opening Times are:
Friday 25th January ? 12pm? 8pm,
Saturday 26th January ? 10am ? 6pm,
and Sunday 27th ? 10am ? 4pm.

Find plenty of inspiration and practical advice, with more than 100 free talks including expert knowledge about remote and exotic locations, real life experiences, hints, tips and celebrity appearances.

Labels: 2008, Adventure Travel, exhibition, London, Shows, UK

Ride! on BlogTalkRadio.com is a new online radio talk show, offering lively half-hour interviews every two weeks from Toronto, Canada. The realtime talks, hosted by freelance motojournalist Adrian Blake, cover all aspects of motorcycling, including international industry movers and shakers, professional racers, adventurers, custom builders, and a host of other passionate advocates for two-wheel motorised transport.

Adrian will even be conducting an interview for Ride! from the 2007 Milan International Motorcycle Show (EICMA) in Italy, which runs November 6 through 11. The fair is the largest bike show in the world.

And on November 21 at 3 p.m. EST, his guest will be Austin Vince. Austin was one of six British adventurers called Mondo Enduro, who completed a 400,000 miles around the world ride, in 400 days on 350-cc Suzuki dual sport bikes.

Their adventures were documented on video in the popular series, Mondo Enduro, shown on the Discovery adventure travel channel and the companion book to the series has just been published.

Labels: adventure, blog, exhibition, internet, motorcycles, radio

This weekend, July 14-15, 2007, Sidney, that's British Columbia, Canada, not Sydney, Australia, will host the largest SCUBA show ever held in Western Canada. The Sidney Dive Expo is expected to attract visitors from all over Canada and the Pacific North Western USA.

More than 40 exhibitors including the biggest names in SCUBA will be displaying their wares and there will be numerous demonstrations, pool sessions and events. There will also be educational seminars and local dive charter operators are to provide special chartered dives.

Sidney is one of the most favoured dive sites on lower Vancouver Island and home to the famous artificial reefball project.

We have some interesting Diving Holidays in our database.

Labels: 2007, Canada, diving, exhibition, Sidney Dive Expo

Cars in the Park is South Africa's premier, annual, display of vintage motor vehicles. It is held on the first Sunday in August, when around 2000 vintage and classic, cars and motor cycles, from all over Gauteng and other parts of South Africa are exhibited.
This year 'Cars in the Park' is on 5 August, 2007, at Zwartkops race track, Pretoria. Last year almost 20 000 people enjoyed the exhibition; be prepared for a very full, fun-filled day.

We have some interesting Vintage Transport Holidays in our database.

Labels: Cars in the Park, exhibition, Pretoria, South Africa, vintage, vintage cars

An interesting exhibition of vintage photographs from the second half of the 19th century, is being run by the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. The exhibition in McCormick Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, runs through September 28, 2007 and is called "Global Views: 19th-century Travel Photographs".

Early travel photographs are proving to be an important record of architectural and social history and this exhibition particularly illustrates how travel photographers documented historical monuments, archaeological sites and scenes of daily life from the Middle East and Asia, 100 to 150 years ago.

Labels: exhibition, photographs, travel, U.S.A., vintage

The most popular tourism gardens in The Netherlands is Keukenhof at Lisse, near Amsterdam and it boasts one of the world's greatest displays of tulips and spring flowers. It was established nearly 60 years ago and each spring there is a flower festival when more than 7 million bulbs burst into flower throughout the 70 acre garden.

For the 2007 season, the Keukenhof has chosen the theme 'Linnaeus: King of Flowers Turns 300', to commemorate the birth of Swedish physician and botanist Carolus Linnaeus 300 years ago. Linnaeus had tremendous impact on the bulb world and tulips are still named according to the classification that Linnaeus developed in the 18th century.

The Swedish theme will be incorporated in the park in a wide variety of ways, including a giant portrait (16 x 11 metres) of Pippi Longstocking, the young heroine of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren's beloved series, made out of bulbs designed to bloom in the spring.

This year's International Keukenhof Flower Exhibition will be open from 22 March until 20 May, 2007.

Labels: Carolus Linnaeus, exhibition, gardens, Holland, Keukenhof, Netherlands, Tulips