Summer’s not over, and these five great festivals provide plenty of reasons to fill the gas tank, buy a plane ticket or book a cruise to one of the following destinations:

Heading to New Orleans? Lucky you. Until Sept. 15, the COOLinary festival continues. It’s the 20^th anniversary of this fun, citywide food event, with a great selection of participating local restaurants that include 3^rd Block Dept Kitchen + Bar, Annunciation Restaurant, Birdy’s Behind The Bower, Deanie’s Sea Food Kitchen, Gris-Gris, Lula Restaurant Distillery, New Orleans Creole Cookery, Red Fish Grill, and Poydras & Peters. Locations range from the Arts/Warehouse/Convention District to the Central Business District/Downtown area and French Quarter.

Head to Austria’s capital Sept. 20–22 for Art Vienna. Art is the focus, with exhibitions and work from Austria and prestigious global artists and galleries from around the world. It’s all on fabulous display at Schönbrunn Palace and its 18^th-century orangery, where illustrious composers including Mozart and Sallieri once performed.

In Scotland, September means fun with a variety of events. Through Sept. 8 in Largs, Largs Viking Festival celebrates Viking heritage and the long-ago Battle of Largs, which took place in 1263 and is commemorated today with a reenactment and skirmish. Enjoy live entertainment and pipe bands, workshops, food and crafts, a Viking and Scots village, and the Festival of Fire. On Sept. 6 and 7, the Spirit of Speyside Distilled: Food & Drink 2024 festival offers the chance to sample the region’s spirits and meet master distillers at Elgin Town Hall.

It’s a wild and wooly world in Zermatt, Switzerland, on Sept. 7 and 8 when the Shepherd’s Festival and Wolli’s Birthday gets underway. Visitors are invited to participate in a weekend of celebrations timed around the birthday of the city’s beloved mascot sheep. Events include the selection of Zermatt’s most beautiful black-nosed sheep, plus music, food and fun.