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August is festival month in Edinburgh. With around ten festivals going on at the same time, Edinburgh comes alive with music, street performances, art, literature, food, and the occasional day of sunshine. If you want to know more, today I bring you my guide to the Edinburgh August festivals.
Today I want to share my guide to Hampstead museums with you. This north London neighborhood is packed with small museums, and they cover subjects as diverse as historic architecture and modern psychology. If you love London museums, this is a great part of the city to explore.
One of my favorite things about living in a cultural capital is that great art comes to me as opposed to the other way around. Having been on travel hiatus for two straight weekends, I’ve had time to catch up on art exhibitions in London.
On November 5, 1605, a man named Guy Fawkes was arrested in London. His crime? He was about to set off explosives in the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to kill King James I and the Protestant aristocracy. The incident quickly became known as the Gunpowder Plot.