Splash for Cash for Cancer – The World Water Bombing Championships
Nothing comes more naturally to kids (well at least boys) than the waterbomb. It seems to engage our most primal desire to make as much mess as possible along with our insuppressible urge to bodily...
View ArticleBYO Shotgun (Part 2) – Hide Your Hats; The Pirates are coming! Es Firo in...
If there’s been a common theme thus far with the Spanish festivals of European Bazaar, it has been the definite need of earplugs. In March, at Valencia’s Las Fallas, it was the likelihood of having...
View ArticleNun Bingo at the Hopping Procession of Echternach
For 1000 years the people of Echternach in Luxembourg have been celebrating the life and achievements of their chosen saint, the good St Willibrord. In fact, they’ve been celebrating it for so long...
View ArticleMud, Sweat and Beers – Germany’s Mud Olympics
Driving north we are on the upward span of a long, arching bridge. Up ahead the girders of the bridge, set against the monotone grey-blue sky, make it look as if we are driving towards a door in the...
View ArticleOddball Olympics – The World Alternative Games
As the European Summer winds down – and so too does the European Bazaar project – One Small World has their eyes set on Gold as we return to the mecca of strange festivals for the ‘mad Olympics’, the...
View ArticleA Head Full of Dreams and a Mouth Full of Bog Water – World Bog Snorkelling...
Mother Teresa is here, beer in hand. A Smurf ducks past a Fat Ballerina and onwards past a guy battling to tape jelly cubes to his arms. Around them, the crowd is directing furtive glances down into...
View ArticleWeek Two Winner – Europe’s Most Fun Festival To Compete In is….
And the winner of the 2014 One Small World Awards category of Europe’s Most Fun Festival To Compete In is…. Wales’ World Alternative Games! Tucked away, as it is, in the rolling hills of central Wales,...
View ArticleWeek 3 Winner – Europe’s Most Unmissable Festival is….
AND THE WINNER IS… DRUMROLL PLEASE… Choosing a winner in this category has been like picking your favourite chocolate biscuit in a pack of chocolate biscuits. Of the four finalists for Europe’s Most...
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