Author: Andrew

Starting January 5th, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is an annual festival that takes place in Harbin, China.

There are two main exhibition areas – one is Sun Island that was the location of this week’s contest.

Found the island in the river:

• Lighthorse
• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Garfield
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans

After the hint:

• Phil Ower
• Graham Hedley

Houston, Texas celebrated “Mauro Hamza Day” on December 26th, 2009. This was the rather obscure holiday chosen for this week.

Mauro Hamza is originally from Cairo, Egypt, and established his fencing academy in Houston – one location can be found in the L-shaped white building. Hamza also served as Fencing Program Coordinator at Rice University from 1998 to 2014 and spent three years serving the Southwest fencing community as volunteer Chairman of the Gulf Coast Division. Mauro was the Egyptian Olympic coach for the men’s and women’s foil teams at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and was the United States Fencing Association Men’s Foil National Coach 2009-2010; then USA Foil Director for Men’s and Women’s National teams in 2010-2011.

There are two locations of the Salle Mauro Fencing Academy in the Houston area.

https://sallemauro.com/

Found in front of the fencing:

• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Glenmorren
• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse
• Martin de Bock

This weeks holiday was Goa Liberation Day, celebrated on December 19th for the overthrow the Portuguese in Goa, India. The location visited was Azad Maidan where a monument to the memory of the Indian soldiers who lost their lives during the 36 hour battle.

Found the location pre-hint:

• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• Eloy Cano
• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Martin de Bock
• Phil Ower

And after the hint:

• Robert
• Robin

And a wave to Gillian B who had the right area, but not the right spot!