Many parents we spoke to said the whole camping area was so busy they couldn’t even get their pushchairs back to the tents and needed to carry little ones some way. While this wasn’t a problem for us as we wanted to be in general camping, (we enjoy being in ‘the mix’ and have older kids 4, 8 and 9 who generally sleep through anything), it may have been a problem for some who wanted a quieter, separate area. We saw many other people wandering around in vain looking for space until eventually, at around 6pm the organisers opened an overflow field, both for regular camping and also for camper vans.ĭespite being pitched as a family friendly festival there wasn’t any obvious dedicated family camping and everyone was lumped into a very beautiful but extremely busy area. The campsite was rammed, luckily our friends had already arrived and tried to save us a space so we were just in time. To our dismay it was a good fifteen minute walk down to big hill to the campsite, now this might be reasonable if we had pop up tents and no food but we are a family of five, who despite our best efforts are unable to pack light! Unlike some other festivals there weren’t any wheel barrows for hire so no help with transporting our stuff.
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We arrived at about 2pm on the Friday, this was the earliest we could collect our tickets from the box office. We have been a couple of festivals before but were looking forward to this brand new smaller boutique family friendly festival only an hour from home.
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The weather was predicting hot, sunny skies, and big acts to see such as The Levellers, Basement Jaxx and De La Soul. We were all mega excited about our family festival trip to Forgotten Fields