Here’s a fun Friday Afternoon Challenge for ya: September Sensations!

[CTyankee]

Try your luck identifying these September festivities from all over the world. Hints can be found in the photos so look closely...

(and as always, please respect other DU folks here...don’t cheat...)
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[alsame]

1. #5 - paella festival in Spain?

[CTyankee]

2. do you know where?

[alsame]

3. I'll guess Valencia. I actually attended one there, years ago. I know

they are held in various cities, I just don't know which one is during September.

[CTyankee]

8. It's in Sueca actually. I don't know the southern part of Spain, having travelled only

in the northern part. I'd like to go there, tho...

[eleny]

4. #3 has to be a mud man from papua, new guinea

if any more info is needed then i'd have to cheat. :D

[CTyankee]

6. Yep...I like the picture a lot!

Have you been to New Guinea to see this? It sounds really intresting!

[eleny]

12. Never been but I was an anthropology major in college

So I like reading about things like this.

It was fun seeing something I recognized. Been a long time. :hi:

[WinkyDink]

5. #2 = Lille, France. Restaurant competition to build biggest mussels-shells pile!

I've eaten mussels in Belgium, but never in France!

[CTyankee]

7. Hey, a real connisseur here! Don't you just love it?

I really want to go and do this someday!

[eleny]

13. I thought it was a pile of coal and thought, "Wha?"

<doh!> :blush:

[CTyankee]

19. I SO want to go there some day and eat those mussels!

I had the raw oysters in Paris and they were great (altho not as good as fresh caught Martha's Vineyard ones), but the mussels are something else!

[marions ghost]

9. #1

Roma Europa festival. Rome?

Just a guess...

[CTyankee]

10. Actually, no, no Rome...

[WinkyDink]

11. #1 = Venice Music Festival.

[CTyankee]

14. This one is not in Venice...but it is in September...

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. #4) hint: the building in the background is a government office n/t

[CTyankee]

17. Hey, Jeff, nice to see you here. I think it probably IS a government office

of a different time, of course...

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. I think it's still in use. n/t

[elleng]

22. You thinking of Uffizi???

:hi:

[lumberjack_jeff]

23. I think it's the Budapest Parliament building.

http://www.destination360.com/europe/hungary/parliament

I had no idea it was such a beautiful city.

[elleng]

24. Haven't been there; may have to put it on my 'list.'

[TheCentepedeShoes]

16. #l Mozart?

Salzburg? Just guessing

[CTyankee]

18. Nope, wrong place actually...

[CTyankee]

20. The answers to this Challenge will be posted later today.

Thanks to all for joining in!