August Bank Holiday Weekend IS Greenbelt. Sometimes it feels like the banks are closed in honour of it. For 19 of the last 21 last-weekend-in-Augusts I’ve spent my time in a field (til ‘99) or racecourse (the fest has been in Cheltenham for 11 years) engaged in four simple pleasures: soaking up great music encountering […]
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A weekend among friends
(Or how a sceptic faired at Greenbelt ‘09) Suddenly two weeks before the event we were going to Greenbelt, a festival that I knew little about, apart from the name. The “we†being my wife Judith and two of my children, Jessie (13) and Rosa (11) and me. We were camping with members of 3 […]