Travel Briefs

The UK’s first designated City of Culture is Derry, Northern Ireland, with more than 266 events scheduled in 2013, including sports, dance, theater, art, film, storytelling and historical reenactments. Most are free.

For example, the city will host the Highland Dance Festival in April. In August, the Derry Regatta will hold a month-long rally of traditional sailing yachts, and the Fleadh Cheoil na h’Éireann, the world’s largest festival of Irish music, will be held.

For four nights, Nov. 28-Dec. 1, “Lumiere” will feature neon lights and LEDs decking the city’s walls, streets...

Even if you’ve never sat on the back of a horse in your life, you can learn to play polo at the Capilla Polo Club (Ruta 39 km 7, Capilla del Señor, Buenos Aires, Argentina; phone +44 20 7096 7682).

For a day, a week or longer, the club offers placid horses for beginners as well as polo ponies suitable for more advanced sportsmen. Each morning is devoted to “stick and ball sessions” (English speaking), and there are chukkas each afternoon. Students can stay on site in a traditional estancia-style house or in a local hotel or an hour away in Buenos Aires.

Tuition of $300 a day...

Addressing medical care on the front during the First World War through diaries, letters, literature, photographs and objects, the exhibition “War and Trauma — Medical Care in WWI” will be on display in the In Flanders Fields Museum (Lakenhallen - Grote Markt 34, B-8900 Ieper, Belgium; phone 32 057 239 220) in Ypres, Belgium, Nov. 11, 2013, to June 30, 2014.

The museum is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily, April-mid November, and 10-5 Tues.-Sun., mid November through March. Through 2013, admission costs €8 (near $11) for adults and €1 for those 7-25 years old....