What? When? Where? /Louise Weiss

July 27-September 29: Tea Time at Buckingham Palace
What can be more British than sipping teaat Buckingham Palace.While the royals are things in Scotland, visitors can tour the State Rooms, then have tea on the garden terrace which offers views over the Palaces famous lawn and lake. www.royalcollection.org.uk/.

September 10-19: Second Annual Denver Beer Fest, a Citywide Suds Celebration
Denver’s reputation as one of the world’s great beer cities will be cemented during this brew-centric fiesta with such events as Brew at the Zoo, featuring a “suds safari”; Tilted Kilt Beer Fest Launch Party at an irreverent Irish pub; the Tour de Fat, a costumed bicycle parade concluding with an exchange of car keys for a bicycle; Rare Beer Tasting II, presenting 24 rare, exotic and hard-to-find brews to raise funds for Pints for Prostates, an important health message for men. www.DenverBeerFest.com

September 10-October 11: Beethoven Festival, Bonn, Germany
Music lovers from all over the world converge on Beethoven’s birthplace for this annual homage to its native son, with more than 60 concerts featuring internationally acclaimed orchestras, ensembles, and soloists in more than 20 venues in and around Bonn. The region is famous for the fairy tale castles and fortresses along the river Rhine. www.beethovenfest.de

September 18: Open Lighthouse Day in Maine
The Coast Guard will partner with the Maine Office of Tourism and the American Lighthouse Foundation to present the largest event of its kind in the country. While all Maine lighthouses cannot be opened to the public for safety and accessibility reasons, the 25 ocean, river, and island lighthouses that will be open on this occasion offer a rare view of these iconic structures that have helped make its picturesque coastline legendary. www.lighthouseday.com

September 19-October 3: Two hundredth Anniversary Celebration of Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
Sorry, Denver, but this is the world’s largest Octoberfest. Beer tents and fairground rides as far as the eye can see guarantee an exuberant –possibly raucous—atmosphere for two whole weeks, attracting millions of visitors from all over the world. This is a chance to experience the Germany of traditional music and costumes, sausage, pretzels, and an inexhaustible supply of possibly the finest beer in the world. www.oktoberfest.de

TANZACAT 2010 Open: September 23-October 2
Sixty catamarans, manned by over one hundred sailors, are expected to compete in ten Olympic Courses races in the largest open-class catamaran event in Africa. From September 23 26, the Bay Regatta will rake place in the warm tropical waters of the Msasani [stet] Bay in Dar es Salaam. During the Zanzibar Raid from September 28 to October 2, the catamarans will race across the Indian Ocean to the legendary spice island of Zanzibar. Competing in or watching the TANZACAT 2010 Open is a great addition to a Tanzanian safari adventure. www.tanzaniatouristboard.com

September 25: GLOW, Santa Monica’s Biennial All-Night Fall Festival
In 2008 more than 200,000 people thronged Santa Monica beach to enjoy an almost- all-night festival of exhibits from local, national, and international artists. More are expected this year to enjoy 25 installations around Santa Monica State Beach and surrounding areas. Open to the public and free from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., GLOW will feature original commissions by artists from around the world who re-imagine Santa Monica Beach as a playground for thoughtful and participatory artworks.

Summer 2010 onwards: London Cycle Hire
From summer 2010 The Mayor of London and Transport for London will set up and operate a London Cycle Hire scheme. Bicycles will be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The London Cycle Hire scheme will help to alleviate congestion on the Tube and buses in London. The program will launch with 6,000 hire bicycles based in the nine London boroughs and several Royal Parks that make up London's zone one travel area, and are expected to generate around 40,000 extra cycle trips a day in central London. For more information visit www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/12444.aspx

Through January 2011: Moore in the Gardens
Experience Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG) landmark, open-air exhibition of monumental works by the internationally renowned sculptor, Henry Moore. Highly acclaimed by Time magazine, the exhibit offers a unique opportunity to site Moores immense work in a diverse array of landscape. The two DBG campuses feature the large-scale sculptures amidst everything from prairie wildflowers and serene reflecting pools to cacti and the rugged alpine rock garden.
www.botanicgardens.org