It all gets a bit mad in Hastings Old Town on May Day Bank Holiday and if you head down there you’ll probably go home with a green nose. Jack in the Green, a festival of fun, frolics and foliage, celebrating the start of spring, takes place over the first weekend of May and culminates … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Shoes on the Danube
While in Budapest in May we came across a very moving memorial. About 300m before the Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube is a sobering sight. The Shoes on the Danube is a poignant memorial to Jewish citizens rounded up and executed on the banks of the Danube by the Arrow Cross Militia … Continue reading »