The Year of the Monkey, 2004, was the auspicious debut of Shanghai’s brand-new, ultra-modern racetrack with the Chinese Grand Prix. The sweeping aluminium, glass and steel structures of architects Hermann Tilke and Peter Wahl echo the Formula One cars
Springtime in New York City also means it’s time for the world’s leading and longest-running fair in fine art photography. Over 80 of the world’s foremost galleries specialising in this widely varied field of art annually flock to the Park Avenue Ar
Classic car enthusiasts have a field day at Techno Classica. More than 800 exhibitors show 2,000 old-time automobiles arranged by theme: film stars’ chariots, Grand Prix legends, dream machines et al. spanning the everyday to the unattainable. Technical
Some 15 nations take part in the biannual Western European dressage finals, but spectators really come to see the intense competition between the German and Dutch superstars for top honours at the prestigious four-day event. Big names such as Olympic indi
The sleeping dragon has awoken. China’s recent export growth has been phenomenal, and foreign buyers looking to get in on the action wouldn’t dream of missing the China Export & Import Fair, also called the Canton Fair. While it’s been held for almo
Prospero knew the importance of astrology: “I find my zenith doth depend upon / A most auspicious star, whose influence / If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes / Will ever after droop.” The horoscope-loving Sri Lankans avoid drooping fortunes with
The festival organiser Hotspots (a union for quality control governing gastronomy and the hospitality sector in Linz) has succeeded in making Linz the largest single culinary venue in Austria. At the Culinary Art Festival, some dozen celebrity chefs engag
Courage, mon vieux! With the monuments of the City of Light as milestones, the gruelling contest seems more like a sightseeing tour. After London and New York, the Paris Marathon is the world’s most celebrated race. Some 30,000 runners start near the Ar
Kamakura’s heyday, from 1185 to 1333, coincided with the dawn of Buddhism in Japan, and a clutch of Zen temples contribute to the mood of serenity and repose in the town an hour’s journey south of Tokyo. All that changes during annual Kamakura Festiva
All roads lead to a church in Moscow. A couple of hundred jut their fairytale domes and spires into the sky. When the bells peal out at midnight for the holiest day of the Russian Orthodox Church, Easter Sunday, they are also marking a religious revival i
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