Tent Sniffing for Beginners

It's been a long time. Boomtown, my favourite festival, an interactive time of mayhem and unexpected delights interspersed with music and dancing. Unexpected discoveries, weird costumes, lovely p...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2022/09/boomtown-festival-2022.html

No blog posts for 2 years. COVID hit me hard, a lack of festivals which had always been my happy place, my reset button for real life when I needed them the most was really difficult to cope...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2022/09/its-been-while.html

For a long time I have searched for the perfect comfy night's sleep when camping. As I'm in my 50s the simple thin foam mat favoured by my teen is just not enough for my older bones. So while a y...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/09/night-night-sleep-tight-camping-sleep.html

Fancy a new festival? Looking for a festival for grown ups that is still child friendly yet not full of teenagers? I think that the Cornbury festival might be just what you need. This year, once ...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/09/cornbury-festival-2019-review.html

Every blogger that does festivals has blogged about what to take. I've done it myself because it's a thing that newbies, festival virgins, the uninitiated, always ask. But the more I think about ...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/06/eco-packing-for-festival.html

Anyone that goes to a festival in the UK knows to take wellies. Wellingtons have become a staple item in the wardrobe of the festival fan because whether it rains or not there will be damp bits. ...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/06/festival-weather-hoping-for-best-prepare-worst.html

Life and death? Bit dramatic, we are only going camping.  Every year there are one or two stories in the news about people that die, actually die, in their tents often while asleep. But what...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/06/win-a-co-alarm.html

I recently wrote about my number one camping essential over on The Mediocre Dad, and that made me think. If I had some spare money and wanted to treat myself, what would I add to my camping arsen...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/06/camping-cheap-hobby-with-option-to-spend.html

It's about time I got my festival fancy dress underway. Because I attend a few festivals each year I try to ensure I wear a costume that will be suitable for a few of them (I'm not made of money!...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/05/camp-bestival-fancy-dress-ideas.html

#AdGifted  Summer is the best time of year. Summer is full of sunshine, beer, relaxing, big skies, music on the breeze and the gentle tickle of drying grass underfoot. Of course being Britai...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/04/cornbury-music-festival-2019.html

#AdGifted  Regular readers will know that I'm a regular at Camp Bestival, the fun, family, festival held in Dorset each year. Last year the fun was slightly dampened by such dreadful storms ...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/04/looking-forward-to-camp-bestival-2019.html

My daughter and I had an amazing time in Iceland last year. My highlight of the trip though was not the northern lights (we went in September - right at the start of the season and we were too la...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/02/iceland-my-favourite-day.html

Last year I discovered a new festival and it was great. I don't know why I have only just found out about Cornbury as this will be its 16th Year! I love a grown up feel to a festival, neither a k...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/02/cornbury-festival-2019.html

#AdGifted What's that about? As you know each year I'm an ambassador for Camp Bestival and 2019 will be no different. I am here to tell you all you've ever wanted to know about Camp Bestival and ...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2019/02/CampBestival2019.html

I booked the bucket list holiday of my dreams this year and at the beginning of September my teen daughter (DD) and I set off for Iceland for 6 days. I had decided to not bother with the Northern...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/10/packing-for-iceland-and-cold-outdoors.html

Where to begin. What an incredible festival. Before going  to Boomtown, but after I had, on a whim, purchased tickets, people were keen to tell me what to expect. To be fair to them, some of...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/08/boomtown-fair-2018.html

I've been to a few festivals over the summer, Cornbury, Camp Bestival and Boomtown Fair and have tried the delicious food on offer at each one. This year for an added bit of excitement DD has bec...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/08/eating-vegan-at-a-festival.html

Last weekend I went to Camp Bestival. Unusually for me I didn't take a tent! I fulfilled a bit of a bucket list dream and hired a gorgeous and retro VW campervan called Molly. She is pink! DD and...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/08/festival-tents-storms-and-campervans.html

Hello! I am back from one of the best family festivals on earth, Camp Bestival,  and I'm not only saying that because they gifted me a ticket! This year the festival was sadly cut short by h...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/08/camp-bestival-2018-review-best-family-festival.html

What an amazing weekend. Helped of course by the most amazing summer weather that many of you will ever have experienced. After several weeks of blazing sun and high temperatures a part of me was...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/07/cornbury-festival-review.html

Festivals are the perfect time to relax and have a drink. Any camping is really, the joy of having nowhere to go, the relaxing sound of babbling brooks or bird song or the wind in the trees..or m...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/06/lets-talk-about-gin.html

People have asked me how I cope with so many festivals in such a short space of time each summer. Is it amazing advanced planning? Spending loads of money or a wild and carefree attitude to life?...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/06/coping-with-weekend-after-weekend-of.html

Not to be confused with eating an actual vegan... My lovely teen has recently embraced the vegan lifestyle and so while I am still looking forward to pulled pork, brisket baps and a bacon buttie ...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/05/eating-vegan-at-camp-bestival.html

Hello festival fans, I'm here to tell you about another festival, don't panic though, this time the tickets are not a million dollars! No the tickets for Nozstock are a snap at £115 for adults N...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/05/nozstock.html

I hope the PDSA Petlife Festival becomes a regular event. Blessed with glorious sunshine the festival was a riot of doggy fun. Plenty of shady spots and paddling pools for the pooches to keep coo...

https://www.tentsandfestivals.co.uk/2018/05/review-of-first-pdsa-petlife-festival.html