Festival

In just a few weeks I’ll be driving to Portmeirion to attend my very first festival: Festival No. 6. I’m a bundle of excitement and nerves, so to calm the latter I’ve spent quite a bit of time researching what I should pack to make this experience not just survivable, but enjoyable. Although I’m not a …

Hi, I’m Elle, I’m 31 and I’ve never been to a festival. *waits for horrified gasps to die down* Yeah, I know. The thing is though, in Australia, where I grew up, festivals aren’t the rite of passage that they are here in the UK. But probably more importantly, I’m scared of camping. We broke up, …

Have you ever felt like New Year’s Eve was…well…a little bit of a let-down? There’s something about the anticipation – the expectation that I absolutely must have an epic time – that leaves me with a nagging sensation. A feeling that my New Year’s Eve experience isn’t going to be quite good enough. But that’s …

Have you ever been to a festival where the star of the show isn’t the headline act but the location? How about a festival where the food is so good you wish you could grow a second (or third) stomach so you could try everything? What about a festival where you constantly stumble upon surprise …

My Corona Capital 2015 Confession I have a confession to make. The last time I went to anything remotely resembling a festival, it was 1995 and miraculously it was free. It was sunny, and the beer was cheap. Since then, I’ve never felt the urge to camp at Glastonbury, get dirty in the mud at Reading …