Text and Photos: Gypsygal Nina The dance festival or Damhsa is a yearly dance festival event in Cork which aims to celebrate diverse cultures. One of the dance troupes I admire is the Kupalo Ukrainian Dance Ensemble . The Canada-based group is touted as the cultural ambassador of the Alberta-based St. Basil’s Ukrainian Catholic Parish.
Text and Photos by Gypsygal Nina I love living in Europe. It’s such a cosmopolitan place and culture vultures like me can’t get enough of it. While I do travel to many places in Europe (that will be the subject of my future posts), there are times that I just can’t get out of Cork....
text by Gypsygals Nina and Prime photos by Gypsygal Nina We can only reserve three days to "flashpack" our way to Cambodia (ahhh, the agonies of having a day job!). So, the only way for us to savor this Cambodian trip is to go to a place that will best define Cambodia: the ruins of...
Text and Photos By: Gypsygal Nina I finally got my first elephant ride while sightseeing at the ruins of Angkor Thom! Wheee! It did cost me and my sister (Gypsygal Prime) 20 U.S. dollars (we paid 10 bucks apiece) . But I think it’s worth it. It gave me a bird’s eye view of the...
In Bhutan, the chief abbot’s winter residence is at the Punakha Dzong. Sitting at the confluence of the two rivers in the former Bhutanese capital of Punakha, this dzong houses many of the country’s historic and holy relics including the embalmed body of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal. Zhabdrung was the first monarxch to unify the various...
The Fleadh Cheoil (Festival of Music) is an annual Irish music competition organized by the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ----that means “Gathering of Musicians of Ireland” in the Old Irish language.
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