Classic trains will share the spotlight with classic cars Saturday at the inaugural Hot August Rails event at Western Railway Museum. The event will be 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the museum, which is on Highway 12 just east of Suisun City. The car show will feature a Best in Show awards bracket. There […]
At full gallop, the horse emerges from the darkness and races through a string of bonfires in an ancient ritual to ward off sickness performed every January in a tiny Spanish village.
Known as Luminarias, the festival takes place every January 16 in San Bartolome de Pinares, a village perched high in the hills about 100km west of Madrid.
By the light of an almost full moon, several local officials are sweating copiously, despite freezing temperatures, as they pile branches onto the bonfires blazing along the main street of this village of just 600 residents As the bells ring out, there’s a