Posted by Ruth Miller on Thu 18th September 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Festivals
Eurochocolate (18-26 October) promises a week of chocolate, choons and chomping in the beautiful medieval city of Perugia.
As well as tonnes of crafted chocolate, ranging from sculptures to pet products, the festival also offers music and competitions.
Stay nearby at the 18th century-style Villa di Monte Solare. A new member of the Small Luxury Hotels group, this hilltop haven has leafy gardens, two pools, a spa centre and a fine restaurant serving home-grown fare.
A week’s B&B costs £504 pp during October. Flights and car hire extra.
Via Real Holidays
Confusing directions and a lack of signs meant we arrived at The Big Chill feeling, well, The Big Stress. However, proximity of parking to the festival and helpful stewards meant that we began to relax as soon as we got there, and our 3 and 5 year olds didn’t complain about the walk.
The glorious Malvern Hills provides a perfect festival backdrop. The lakes in the centre of the site add to the atmosphere of tranquillity.
The family camping was the best I’ve seen at a festival, with plenty of space, toilets and access to drinking water. The number of families there meant kids had a great time running in and out of each other’s tents- oh, and there was a festival to go to as well.
Unfortunately, the children’s entertainment didn’t start until 12pm, that’s a long wait when the kids wake up at 6am. Thank goodness for the bubble shop, no wonder they had a sign up declaring “Babysitting- £50 per hour”.
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The Troy, Chopper and Munich star Eric Bana has taken on the role of ambassador for this month’s Melbourne International Film Festival. The Melburnian actor leads a list of celebrities being signed to glam up the festival, which has Oscar-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Emmy-winning actor Geoffrey Rush as its patron.
Eric Bana has been reported to be thrilled about the honour as “it’s my home town’s film festival and it’s much closer than Cannes, Toronto or Sundance!”
The organisers describe the selection of the films featured in this year’s 400-movie marathon as “bold” and “audacious”. The festival, which takes place from 25 July – 10 August, will include 10 world premieres.
Last year, Melbourne International Film Festival drew more than 180,000 people.
Melbourne has to be one of my favourite cities in Australia and linking up with the film festival, grand prix and Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant might well be worthwhile......
We’re no doubt all looking forward to festival season, the tents, the sounds… the sun (well hopefully). Believe it or not there are 400k festivals in the UK this year so there’s plenty of choice, all you have to do is muster up the energy to do as many as possible!
Here’s our official preferred energy drink of festivals 2008!
What you are going to NEED is a little help from a healthy energy drink called Relentless. We recently tried some of this and it was like rocket fuel… in fact one of us had a can of Red Bull and the other had a can of Relentless… we were like Duracell Bunnies for at least 4 hours… then the Red Bull bunny started fading proving that if you are going to pack an energy drink then you should make it Relentless (well we think so anyway!)
We recommend the Relentless Juiced Energy, a 50% juice variant that blends passion fruit, orange, guava, mango and apricot that tastes gorgeous! Alternatively, Relentless Inferno or Relentless Origin are just as tasty.
We’re going to be at Wakestock this year.. please get in touch if you want to party with us and drink some Relentless energy drink all night!
Posted by Ruth Miller on Fri 16th May 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Festivals
ICELAND AIRWAVES - Reykjavik, Iceland
15th – 19th October
The world’s most northernmost music festival, Iceland Airwaves showcases a mixture of local and international talent, featuring the likes of Bloc Party and The Magic Numbers in 2007. The festival takes place in the numerous bars and clubs of downtown 101 area, and is one of the hippest long weekends on the annual music-festival calendar.
Where to Stay - Loftleidir 4*
Clean, simple and affordable, LoftLeidir also offers Chinese foot massage on the first floor – perfect after dancing the night away in a downtown bar.
Standard double with breakfast from £59.00 ($120).
