In India right at this moment they are celebrating one of their biggest festivals, the Diwali Festival. The festival is an official public holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia and Singapore. Most of these countries have similar customs to Indian culture or have a large Indian…
On November 2 of each year Mexico celebrates it biggest holiday the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). Originally an Aztec festival, it was celebrated as an all month festival in the month of August. Now that Mexico is a very religious and Catholic country, it corresponds with the traditional Catholic day…
It was a sign of the times, which Henri Toulouse de Lautrec lived in. Artists like Renoir and Monet had laid a platform for a new wave of artists, to develop their own style which became Art Nouveau. Also, the industrial revolution now over 100 years old was producing a new class of entrepreneurs,…
Motelear is the name. It’s a part of latino culture, where you can go to a motel for a few hours or a night to be alone with someone you don’t normally have the chance to spend quiet personal time with. I first came about this phenomena when I was reading the Lonely Planet…
To avoid the confusion let’s call it a chip, as it’s called in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. It’s favour neither the French nor the Flemish. They are called French fries in the United States, and thanks (or no thanks) to McDonald’s the name has spread around the world but only in the…
In the year 900 the vikings lands based in Scandinavia were no more than a bunch of separate small kingdoms that were linguistically and physically related. Kingdoms were slowly expanding and nearby tribes began to unite. The vikings at this time infamous for their beliefs; to create glory for themselves in battle and with…
Anyone who has been to Spain might know what we are talking about when we say there are 4 official languages of Spain. Well almost. Spanish is the only official language, but 3 other regions share a co-official status with Castellano. A simple look at a carton of milk shows there are 4 translations…