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Five fascinating facts about Brewster and Budleigh Salterton (2)

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Festive towns The festival season is on us, both in Britain and across ‘The Pond.’ Brewster welcomes the Spring with a three-day Brewster in Bloom Festival http://www.brewsterinbloom.org/ The original daffodil festival 23 years ago has grown into something like Budleigh’s Gala Week, with parades and ‘open house’ for the town’s shops. Later in the year comes the pre-Christmas Brewster For the Holidays "A Sea of Lights" Festival http://www.02631.com/ Above: Brewster in Bloom photo ©CapeCodSoul.com/Marcia Duggan Budleigh may be smaller as a town, but has a lively festival scene which includes a very successful first-ever Jazz Festival in April and a well established Festival of Music and the Arts http://www.budleigh-festival.org.uk/ in July/August. Its first-ever Literary Festival http://www.budlitfest.org.uk/ takes place in September this year. Less well-known among Budleigh festivals are Budstock in August http://www.myspace.com/budstock space.com/budstock and September’s ...