When Laura asked on Wednesday if I wanted to take her place at the Larmer Tree Festival for five days she didn’t have to ask twice. I imagine she chose me because I had easy access to four enthusiastic children. What she might not have considered was my previous experience working at numerous festivals in [...]
We recently ran a competition to win two family passes to the Port Eliot family festival (worth over £360). The oh-so-lovely Claire from www.beingamummy.co.uk was the winner of the Twitter comp, but sadly she can’t make the festival. Now, being oh-so-lovely as she is, she had a brainwave, and decided to donate the family pass [...]
Futuroscope – what to tell you? First off, it’s in the Vienne – kind of smack in the middle of France, close to Poitiers. It’s been there for 23 years – and yet no one has heard of it in the UK. Secondly, it’s the brain child of Luc Besson, one of my favourite directors [...]
So third in the Keycamp series is the second parc we stayed at – the Parc de Fierbois in the beautiful Loire region just south of Tours (close enough to explore the Touraine region too). After our encounter with Paris International, I’ll admit we headed south with some trepidation and not overly blessed with good [...]
After her grown-ups night at the festival watching Jools Holland and Newton Faulkner, Emma revisited last night with her son in preparation for spending the whole weekend ‘Festival-ing’… I took D for a couple of hours last night and it’s filled him with excitement to be spending a WHOLE weekend there. He loved the manageable [...]
Paris International is not your usual Keycamp site. Having spent a long (long, long, long) time faffing back and forth and deciding where to take our Keycamp break, I didn’t pass much thought over the Paris part – it was only for two nights, after all, and simply to facilitate the Disneyland visit. I did [...]
…was apparently AMAZING! Unable to go myself, I roped in Emma, who said she could probably be forced to sample the delights of Jools Holland, Alison Moyet et al if she HAD to. Well, she did have to, so off she went… And she had a blast! Here’s the quick text I had from her [...]
As we had such a mixed experience of Keycamp, I’ve decided the best thing is to break the review into parts – one for each site, and one for the company itself. So I’ll start at the very beginning (a very good place to start…. and I’ll continue now you all have Julie Andrews in [...]
Well, half of it has, anyway! Whilst Katy held down the fort, I swanned off to France for a couple of weeks with the family, thanks to the lovely people at Keycamp. We had a fabulous holiday (with a slight hiccup at the start) – but we had a lot of other companies wanting to [...]
Who could resist it? Not my small boys, that’s for sure – and not many others, I’m thinking. But just in case… there’s a DINOSAUR one too! Oh yes there is! Suitcases covered in vehicles or dinosaurs? Holiday Boy Heaven – even if it’s just going to stay with Granny for the weekend (and girls, [...]
