Daniel Stables Fiesta

A journey through human festivity, told through colourful travel narratives set at some of the world's most eye-catching festivals. examining why we celebrate festivals in the ways we do. Fiesta explores the vibrant tapestry of human festivity, from drunken pilgrimages to sacrificial funerals, national days to neo-pagan necromancy, festivals represent human culture at its most vivid and varied, and the resulting account is both a rich collection of travel writing and an anthropological exploration of the roles that festivals play in society.
Daniel Stables takes a curious, humanistic look at festivals across the globe, unravelling the universal threads which run through our diverse global celebrations.DANIEL STABLES has been working as a travel writer for the last decade, first writing guidebooks for Rough Guides, and later writing articles for National Geographic, the BBC, and national newspapers. He has won acclaim and recognition for his work, winning 'Travel Feature of the Year' in 2025 - Europe at the British Guild of Travel Writers Awards for "In the Valley of Thor," and won Consumer Feature of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards in 2025.