Ancient trades: Ottoman life in Safranbolu Market, Turkey
Shopping Essentials Where: Safranbolu, near the Black Sea in Turkey What’s in store: Traditional trades & crafts preserved since Ottoman times Best
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
Essentials
Risque, Racy and Downright Daring: Bay to Breakers Foot Race
The Bay To Breakers is the most famous foot race in San Francisco, often drawing crowds in excess of 100 000 people.
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Nashville of the Antipodes: Boot-scootin’ at the Tamworth Country Music Festival
The festival has its roots in the work of radio station 2TM, which in the 1960’s aired specialist shows to win back audiences who were being wooed away by the advent of television.
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Red Cliff Indians of Apostle Islands
The Apostle Islands, on the Northeastern tip of Wisconsin’s Bayfield Peninsula, can be visited by ferry or kayak. The Apostles is an archipelago of 21 virgin islands that covers an area of more than 720 square miles on the southern shore of Lake Superior.
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Oom-pah and Ale: The Oktoberfest Beer Festival
The Oktoberfest takes place in the last 2 weeks of September and is the highlight of any beer drinker’s year. Oktoberfest is fast food feeding frenzy. 6,000 chickens, 90,000 pork legs and 80 oxen, and the ever present Umtata bands.
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