Cheltenham Festival of Literature - Spring Weekend
Date: April 5-7.
Location: Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Description: The Spring offshoot of the festival features over 40 writers (including Baroness Thatcher no less), workshops and the Chelt'n'Slam poetry event.
Contact: 01242 263494.
Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart)
Date: March 31.
Location: Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
Description: Combining religious tradition and pyrotechnical ingenuity, a dove-shaped rocket is launched from the Duomo to ignite a huge wooden cart in the square below.
Contact: 0039 055 29 08 32.
St Stupid's Day Parade
Date: April 1.
Location: San Francisco, California, US.
Description: Bishop Joey and the First Church of the Last Laugh put on one of the West Coast's more bizarre parades.
Contact: 001 415 391 2000.
Email: bishopj@saintstupid.com.
Songkran
Date: April 12-15.
Location: Sanam Luang, Bangkok, Thailand.
Description: Thailand's New Year celebration is a city-wide water fight from which no one is exempt.
Contact: 09063 640 666/0066 2694 1222.
