Here at camp Joobili we believe a good festival or unique event can improve any travel experience, even a beach holiday. So we’ve collected a list of Super Summer Seaside Festivals where you can have sun and fun in one tidy package. Whether it’s admiring classical music on the Amalfi Coast, rocking out in St. Malo, or enjoying seaside theater in Ostend, we’ve got you covered.

What’s that? You still haven’t decided where to go this summer. Just give us a date and we’ll take care of the inspiration.

But you can’t hold on to that hate forever, right? They say time heals all wounds, but a giant earth crater filled with lava is a tough wound to cover up. Here at Joobili we wanted to give you a few reasons to “un-hate” Iceland when the time is right. Think about it, how many countries have a recognized holiday for Beer Day? Iceland also puts on one hell of a music festival in October. And if you still can’t find it in your heart to forgive Iceland, then do it for the puffins. You’ll find all these and more on our list of 11 Reasons to Un-Hate Iceland. Just consider it…that’s all we’re asking.

Glastonbudget: Forget skyrocketing prices at Glastonbury, head for Glastonbudget and experience largest tribute band festival. Headliners this year include Oasish, The Fillers, Duran, Coldplace, Greendate, Blings of Leon and more.

Fete de la Musique: Professional and amateur musicians take over Paris for the day and offer outstanding concerts in parks, squares and the smallest corners of the city.

Tour de France: Pack a picnic and spend the day enjoying French cheese and wine as cyclist zoom by.

World Bodypainting Festival: Impressive artwork on a human canvass. Tickets are just 10 Euro and kids are free…but on second thought you might want to leave the kids at home.

Notting Hill Carnival: One of the biggest street festivals in the world! The entertainment is free and plentiful with parades of dancers and drummers sure to get any hips swinging.

Infiorato Flower Carpets: The streets in many Italian villages are literally paved in pedals of flowers. An amazing display of color and craftsmanship.

Amsterdam Pride: Flotillas of gay pride revelers rock the boat through central Amsterdam during the one of a kind Canal Parade. Gay or not, this is a party you don’t want to miss.

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Fringe is the rebellious younger sibling of the Edinburgh International Festival with twice the fun at a fraction of the price.

Robin Hood Festival:  Russel Crowe’s new Robin Hood film has everyone buzzing about our favorite outlaw. This festival is free fun for the whole family.

Buskers Bern Street Music Festival: The cobblestone streets of Bern fill with Europe’s best buskers ensuring free entertainment at every turn.

We are excited to officially announce our partnership with Athens Tourism. As you can see from the video, we feel pretty lucky to be working with such a dynamic destination. The team from Athens is really eager to jump headfirst into marketing their destination online and through social media. Joobili will be promoting Athens’ top events and festivals, as well as boosting Athens’ activities on Facebook and Twitter. Government back tourism agencies have a bad reputation for being the last to adopt new technologies, but Athens and a few others stand out to us as few examples where this reputation just doesn’t fit. Just another reason why Joobili loves Athens.

Joobili was recently invited to present our company at ITB Berlin, more specifically during the PhoCusWright summit on March 10 . For the uninitiated, this is the leading global trade show for the travel industry. Our slot is titled “5 Minutes of Fame” and is designed to highlight up and coming travel startups. The title made me laugh thinking about  Andy Warhol’s famous quote, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Well, I guess we’ll settle for 5 minutes for fame…for now

Seriously though, it is a big honor for us to be invited to present our ideas to such a distinguished crowd (we are sandwiched between keynote presentations from the Global Director of Bing Travel and the CEO of FareCompare). I will be sticking around for a few days to catch the rest of the Expo so if you will be at ITB Berlin as well and would like to meet up just drop me an email or leave a comment.

I recently returned from spending a week in San Francisco and Silicon Valley alongside my fellow European Seedcamp Finalists (check out the write-ups by Don Dodge and VentureBeat ). The guys over at Shout’em gave a nice day by day summary of events, so I’ll just jump to my conclusions.

Seedcamp put Joobili in front of some incredibly smart entrepreneurs and VCs, 95% of whom are altruistically focused on helping startups reach their potential (the other 5% come to meet fellow VCs or look for a job). Mentoring is cool, but mentoring alone would not be worth the transatlantic flight. Remember, Seedcamp is a platform. It is validation that some smart people from Seedcamp thought Joobili was interesting, and therefore other smart people should take a closer look at us. That’s it! But that’s also enough.

With the Seedcamp endorsement in hand, Joobili was able to get meetings with Founders and CEOs of 9 travel websites including some really dynamic entrepreneurs like Gregg Brockway from TripIt, Mike Cassidy from Ruba, Josh from NileGuide…the list goes on. The result was a lot of good advice specific to online travel, a few partnerships and some potential deals. The willingness to share sensitive information and open up personal networks is why The Valley will continue to have an innovation edge on the rest of the world.

Some of the meetings were facilitated by mentors we met in London, others were through our own network. The point is that, like most things in life, Seedcamp is what you make of it. It is a foot in the door, a good excuse to send an intro email, but ultimately it’s up to you to make it happen.

Speaking of making it happen…applications for Mini Seedcamp Prague have just opened. I encourage startups needing validation (read everyone), especially those from CEE to apply.