Hello, hope your Monday is going well, the sun has his hat on here in Oxfordshire. Hope it lasts.
We found out about a FREE music festival a few months back, so we thought we would give it ago. It was on the 7th, 8th and 9th of July in Coventry (UK) at their War memorial park. Parking was also free. It took us about 1hr to get there and about 20mins to drive through the park and park up.
We went on the Friday and the Saturday, on the Friday the Stranglers were playing, blast from my Childhood as My late Dad was into them and to see them play live wad just amazing, so full of emotions as made me think so much of my Dad and how much I miss him but they were brilliant, we all really enjoyed yourselves.
There were different tents like a comedy tent, silent disco. There was a tent with local bands playing and then there was the main stage, I can only think of the Stranglers, The Amazon's and Example played on the main stage, on the Sunday the Darkness played and many many more that I can't remember the names of.
There were several different food trucks from pizza to noodles to burgers & hotdogs to burritos and crepes and even a little vintage tea shop selling the most wonderful handmade slices of cake, cream & jam scones and teas, coffees and hot chocolate with all the trimmings. Also an amazing handmade ice cream stand. I had a hazelnut and chocolate ice cream in a cone. Yum.
There was also lots of vintage stools, and what my Children call hippy stools (which they loved) full of little dream catchers and beautiful colourful elephant keyrings, steam punk hats & glasses, inscence burners and beautiful painted skulls.
There was a fairground, and a family area with a tent with different eco friendly companies within showing us all about their company, and inside here was a stool showing off bees their honey and beeswax candles. My children tried different types of honey made by local bees. They got to see some bees and they loved this.
There was a craft tent and a circus area, where my Children spent an hour clowning around in. Also a stage with different entertainment for the Children, there were loads of different charity stools which my girls kept going to and playing tombola on and won an inflatable giraffe and dolphin, light up wands amongst other bits. There was even a petting zoo.
We took a picnic and relaxed, soaking up the many things we could see and do it was an amazing weekend. The atmosphere was amazing and we all loved seeing Example play, he was awesome. My Daughter made a windmill in the craft tent, there was lots of different things to make and no limit on how many thing you could make.
We are really excited about doing this again (hopefully) next year, so much fun was had by all and I would highly recommend this festival, best free music festival we have been to so far.
Drinks, food and pocket money for kids did all add up but we had a budget and our kids knew we had to stick by it for both days that we went. They had their own pocket money to spend and so my Daughter G got henna done on her hand and my other Daughter got a dream catcher & an elephant keyring (her favourite animal) and my Son kept his money and saved for a game he wanted.
Thank you Godiva it was the most amazing weekend. Let me know if you have been and what you thought of it, I would love to hear what you think.
Ta ta for now
Thank you for reading.
J x
We found out about a FREE music festival a few months back, so we thought we would give it ago. It was on the 7th, 8th and 9th of July in Coventry (UK) at their War memorial park. Parking was also free. It took us about 1hr to get there and about 20mins to drive through the park and park up.
We went on the Friday and the Saturday, on the Friday the Stranglers were playing, blast from my Childhood as My late Dad was into them and to see them play live wad just amazing, so full of emotions as made me think so much of my Dad and how much I miss him but they were brilliant, we all really enjoyed yourselves.
There were different tents like a comedy tent, silent disco. There was a tent with local bands playing and then there was the main stage, I can only think of the Stranglers, The Amazon's and Example played on the main stage, on the Sunday the Darkness played and many many more that I can't remember the names of.
There were several different food trucks from pizza to noodles to burgers & hotdogs to burritos and crepes and even a little vintage tea shop selling the most wonderful handmade slices of cake, cream & jam scones and teas, coffees and hot chocolate with all the trimmings. Also an amazing handmade ice cream stand. I had a hazelnut and chocolate ice cream in a cone. Yum.
There was also lots of vintage stools, and what my Children call hippy stools (which they loved) full of little dream catchers and beautiful colourful elephant keyrings, steam punk hats & glasses, inscence burners and beautiful painted skulls.
There was a fairground, and a family area with a tent with different eco friendly companies within showing us all about their company, and inside here was a stool showing off bees their honey and beeswax candles. My children tried different types of honey made by local bees. They got to see some bees and they loved this.
There was a craft tent and a circus area, where my Children spent an hour clowning around in. Also a stage with different entertainment for the Children, there were loads of different charity stools which my girls kept going to and playing tombola on and won an inflatable giraffe and dolphin, light up wands amongst other bits. There was even a petting zoo.
We took a picnic and relaxed, soaking up the many things we could see and do it was an amazing weekend. The atmosphere was amazing and we all loved seeing Example play, he was awesome. My Daughter made a windmill in the craft tent, there was lots of different things to make and no limit on how many thing you could make.
We are really excited about doing this again (hopefully) next year, so much fun was had by all and I would highly recommend this festival, best free music festival we have been to so far.
Drinks, food and pocket money for kids did all add up but we had a budget and our kids knew we had to stick by it for both days that we went. They had their own pocket money to spend and so my Daughter G got henna done on her hand and my other Daughter got a dream catcher & an elephant keyring (her favourite animal) and my Son kept his money and saved for a game he wanted.
Thank you Godiva it was the most amazing weekend. Let me know if you have been and what you thought of it, I would love to hear what you think.
Ta ta for now
Thank you for reading.
J x
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