If ever I’ve coveted a festival from afar, it’s Just So. Just So is a weekend long, family orientated, fun filled festival and the only arts camping festival in the UK dedicated solely to children and their families. Every time I read about it I wish we could go. I had every intention of taking the …
The Good Life Experience: Highlights
I posted last week about The Good Life Experience in Hawarden, Wales. We had a great weekend there as a family and would highly recommend it to friends. To read about everything that was on offer over the weekend, nip over to my previous blog post. It would’ve been too much to include our highlights within …
The Good Life Experience festival
Last weekend we took the motorhome over to Wales for a festival with a difference. While there was music, there was also a whole heap of other forms of entertainment on offer too. We learned about campfire cooking, watched how to make a wooden bow and heard all about iron forgery… so where were we? …
7 Outdoor Family Events in the North this Summer
With the arrival of the temperamental sunshine in the UK comes some brilliant family events for people with all different kinds of interests. I’ve chosen my top 7 that are taking place in and around the North West over the coming months… Roald Dahl at Tatton Park The wondrous wordsmith is being celebrated all year …
What’s on: Bluedot Festival
Bluedot Festival announces more acts and first wave of arts and culture programme Air, Brian Eno, Lanterns on the Lake, Helen Keen, The Clangers, Krysco, Marc Riley and many more join the line-up for Bluedot this year. Taking place 22-24 July at Jodrell Bank, the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for …
Geronimo Festival Review
Isla Bikes gave Benjamin massive confidence and now he can ride his bike on his own. – Benjamin’s Dad That’s quite a testament, wouldn’t you agree? Benjamin’s achievement was just one highlight of the O’Brien’s family day out at Geronimo this year. They were the ‘family on the ground’ in attendance at the festival, reporting back …
Family friendly North West festivals this Summer
One of my favourite things about summer is that there are lots of opportunities to take the boys to see live music. Last year we managed to take them to Festwich and Headlander Festival, as well as kids festival Lollibop. This year I’m hoping to take them back to the places we enjoyed and also …
Burnley Beer Festival
You know what I love? A blummin’ good beer festival. There’s one not far from me next month and I’m telling you about it now so you can get it in your diary if you’re in the north west. Burnley Beer Festival in East Lancashire is in it’s third year now and is growing year …
Festwich: The Free Music Festival!
If there’s one event we clear our diaries for each summer it’s this. Festwich is a family orientated rock and indie music festival held in Prestwich, Manchester. In it’s third year now, the festival is bigger and better year on year and we’ve loved being at each one. Running from lunch time until late evening, …
Headlander Festival
We’ve had an extremely busy weekend this weekend which started with Louis’ Big Wild Sleepout and ended with The Manchester Day parade, and in between we managed to squeeze a day out at Stockport’s Family Festival – the Headlander Festival. Billed as a festival suitable for families, there seemed to be plenty on offer when we …