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In Deventer, the Netherlands, an annual event turns back the clock to the Victorian era in a grand celebration known as the Deventer Dickens Festival. Started by a shopkeeper, Emmy Strik, as a fanciful party in 1991, the festival has grown into the world's largest Dickensian gathering, drawing 125,000 visitors.
Festival a ‘flight from reality’ for expected 125,000 visitors to enjoy street theatre and Victorian treats
For anyone who drives regularly, there are sights so commonplace, they are almost invisible. There are unsightly elements like roadkill and litter, or more attractive parts of the landscape such as flowering oleander, which fills the medians of many California highways. Then there are the all-too-common roadside memorials of wooden crosses and artificial flowers which...