Summer Holidays & Traditions
This July 1 holiday marks the 1867 act that created Canada.
What is Canada Day?
For 10 days every July, Calgary hosts this rodeo-and-festival billed as “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.”
What is the Calgary Stampede?
This Honolulu beach, with views of Diamond Head, is famous as a place to learn to surf.
What is Waikiki Beach?
The National Sports of Canada Act names this as Canada’s national summer sport.
What is lacrosse?
This no-bake dessert bar has a crumb base, custard-flavoured middle, and chocolate top, and is named for a city in British Columbia.
What is a Nanaimo bar?
In England and Wales, the late-August public holiday is commonly called this.
What is the Summer Bank Holiday?
This massive greenfield music festival is held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.
What is Glastonbury Festival?
Just 15 minutes from The Hague’s city centre, this beach district is one of the Netherlands’ best-known seaside escapes.
What is Scheveningen?
This London Grand Slam is the only tennis major still played on natural grass.
What is Wimbledon?
A soft-serve cone becomes this classic British treat when a Cadbury Flake is stuck into it.
What is a 99 / Flake 99?
Marked on July 1, this Dutch remembrance and celebration is also called the “Day of the Freedoms” and commemorates the abolition of slavery.
What is Keti Koti?
Every July, tens of thousands head to Nijmegen for this four-day walking event known as “The Walk of the World.”
What is the Nijmegen Four Days Marches / 4Daagse?
This Colombian Caribbean island is famous for the “Sea of Seven Colors.”
What is San Andrés?
In this traditional Dutch/Frisian sport, competitors vault over a ditch or waterway using a long pole.
What is fierljeppen?
On Colombia’s Caribbean coast, a traditional plate might include coconut rice, fried fish, and these plantain rounds.
What are patacones?
This July 4 holiday is tied to the Continental Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
What is Independence Day?
This four-day music festival takes over Chicago’s Grant Park in late July or early August.
What is Lollapalooza?
This English seaside city’s Palace Pier offers classic fun-fair rides over the English Channel.
What is Brighton?
Williamsport, Pennsylvania welcomes teams for this youth baseball World Series.
What is the Little League World Series?
The first recorded recipe for this campfire treat appeared as “Some Mores” in a 1927 Girl Scout guidebook.
What are s’mores?
Colombia celebrates this national independence holiday every July 20.
What is Colombian Independence Day?
Medellín blooms with this annual flower festival, famous for silletera culture.
What is Feria de las Flores / the Flower Festival?
On Georgian Bay, this Ontario beach has 14 km of sand and is promoted as the world’s longest freshwater beach.
What is Wasaga Beach?
Also called turmequé, this Colombian throwing sport traces back to the Muisca and involves aiming at a clay target.
What is tejo?
The Hollandse Nieuwe season celebrates the arrival of this Dutch fish snack.
What is herring?