The UK is home to dozens of summer festivals, with over 130 music events alone listed on the ticket website Ents24. Summer festivals in the UK usually means live music–from…
Hobbies & Recreation
Annual Download Festival, Bonnaroo. CMA. Firefly. Lollapalooza. The summer calendar is filled with amazing festivals for music fans, where attendees have the opportunity to hear live performances from dozens of…
If you’ve never been to the Download Festival, one of the highlights of British Summer, then you really haven’t lived. If you are one of those new recruits to the…
The perfect quintessentially English Summer game: croquet. You might not have enough size for an official Tournament Croquet Lawn (32m x 25.6m) but you can use a 5 x 4…
Whether you’re on the “cool” team or the “hot” team, croquet’s a great game. The following guidelines have been adapted from the official rules of the United States Croquet Association.
Pool, or billiards, gets its name from being played in the pool room (where money is “pooled”) at horse races at the beginning of its popularity. It is played on…
American pool, specifically the famous eight-ball game, is a popular game for all ages and levels of players. The object of eight-ball pool is to put all of your balls…
It is not possible to make a break in snooker more than 147. But it is possible to end the game with a score higher than 147 if you opponent…
Punts are not very common nowadays but no visit to Oxford is complete without a little punting.
Punting on a flat boat on the shallow waters of the river Cam in Cambridge is great fun, and travel guides as well as tourists usually suggest punting as a…