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Held each August in a field just outside the East Belgian city of Hasselt, Pukkelpop is one of Europe’s leading alternative music festivals. Pukkelpop 2025 runs from 14th to 17th of the month and promises a typically bold line-up. Acts include Queens of the Stone Age, Amaarae, Chappell Roan, Papa Roach, Justice, Suki Waterhouse, and… Continue reading Getting the Best from Pukkelpop 2025: Practical Cash Tips

If you love the romance of central Europe, it’s hard to beat Budapest. And if you love international music festivals with an alternative twist, then the city’s Sziget Festival is a must. It’s long been a magnet for adventurous music fans across Europe, and its mid-Danube island location gives it magical feel, as if the… Continue reading Sziget Festival – Costs and Cash Tips for UK Fans

This summer Switzerland is hosting the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025. Football fans will come from across Europe and beyond, and including from the UK. Running from 2nd July to 27th July, the tournament will feature 31 matches across eight cities, culminating in the final at Basel’s St. Jakob-Park. For UK fans planning to attend, the… Continue reading Your Essential Guide to the Women’s Euro 2025: Travel, Costs and Currency

Roskilde 2025, Denmark’s flagship music and arts festival, returns this summer with eight days of music and art across multiple genres. Running from 28th June to 5th July, there are also four pre-festival days – almost as important as the main festival for local artists, new acts and some of the more avant-garde performers. Roskilde… Continue reading European Festivals – Roskilde 2025 may be Cashless but you’ll still need Krone

The Primavera music festival in Barcelona is one of the largest in Europe – and the biggest in the Mediterranean region. Each June, it draws tens of thousands of music lovers to the city’s seafront for a packed programme that runs largely through the night. But while festival-goers rightly focus on the line-up, it’s also… Continue reading Packing for Primavera? Don’t forget to cater for the daylight hours too

Each summer, millions line the roads of France to witness one of sport’s great spectacles: the Tour de France. In 2025, the race begins in Lille on 5th July and travels south over three weeks, finishing in Paris on 27th July. The route covers coastlines, mountain passes, rural towns and city boulevards. And for UK… Continue reading On the Road with the Tour de France: What to Spend and Why to Carry Cash

This year, the Montreux Jazz Festival runs from 4th to 19th July and, as usual, promises a remarkable two-week musical celebration against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps and shimmering Lake Geneva. First held in 1967, Montreux has grown from a niche jazz event into one of Europe’s most prestigious and genre-diverse music festivals. In… Continue reading Budgeting for the Montreux Jazz Festival 2025

The Pohoda Festival in Slovakia is something of a hidden gem in the festival world. But it’s one which is attracting consistently more attention, and well-known artists as well as up and coming acts. 2025’s takes place from 10th to 12th July at Trenčín Airport; that’s in north-western Slovakia, about 80 miles from Bratislava. Here… Continue reading Pohoda Festival 2025: Slovakia’s best-kept Cultural Secret

Tomorrowland 2025 – a large annual electronic dance music festival – set to unfold over two weekends: 18th–20th and 25th–27th July, in the town of Boom, just to the south of Antwerp in Belgium. Celebrating its 21st anniversary, the festival introduces a new theme, ‘Orbyz’, transforming the De Schorre open area into a mystical icy… Continue reading Budgeting for Tomorrowland 2025: A Practical Guide

The EuroGames 2025 are hosted in Lyon, France, from 23rd to 26th July. These four days are an important event in the European sporting Calendar – for the sports, and for what the games stand for. And if you’ve not heard of them before, the EuroGames are Europe’s leading inclusive sporting event. Organized by the… Continue reading EuroGames 2025: Costs at Lyon’s Flagship Inclusive Sporting Event