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Here we’ll be posting all the stories and information from our road trip around Britain. Check back for the latest news!
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My summer on the road
The Simple Pleasure Hunt Road Trip has come to an end and I have to say, I couldn’t have landed on my feet anymore with this job if I tried. Think about it- I’m a 21-year-old student and was given two awesome VW campervans to drive on the open road to festivals, all summer long. And to top that off, I happened to be working alongside some…
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30th- 31st July- WOMAD Festival
A three hour drive North (we had a few added miles because of sat-nav- getting- confused moments) and it brought us to the entrance of WOMAD Festival. A very colourful festival celebrating all things World Of Music, Arts and Dance. We had a snug little spot next to a very lovely circus skills tent…
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22nd-24th July- London and Ben and Jerry’s Sundae
As promised after our last trip to the Big Smoke, we forgot our countryside routes and headed back to the city again! We’ve nurtured our vans down here in the rolling hills of Dorset so taking them away from their comfort zone (and our’s to be honest) is a little daunting for us! We hit…
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16th-17th July- Larmer Tree Festival
Larmer Tree Festival was one of the dates on our Simple Pleasure’s Road Trip diary that we’ve been excited about all summer. Generally speaking we’ve been very lucky with the weather for the rest of our road trip. Well, that was about to come to a stop for this weekend. But we knew that just…
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9th-10th July – Dorset Seafood Festival
After spending a beautiful day driving our campervans through Dorset we knew we still wanted to explore the rest of our county before the weekend was over. So, we packed up the vans and headed just 8 miles down the road to Weymouth Seafood Festival. With a little help from the organisers (lack of…
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8th July- Exploring Dorset and Quay for my Car
Our Simple Pleasures summer road trip has taken us to some beautiful spots across the country over the past few months but this weekend was one which we set aside to enjoy everything that we love about Dorset. We took Friday at a Dorset pace (naturally) and had a lovely drive through the country side…
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3rd July – The Great Cricket Match
Having been to a famous chef’s festival yesterday it seemed fitting that today we saw the Three Hungry Boys (and another famous chef!). However, this wasn’t a festival, this was an important sporting occasion, ‘The Great Cricket Match‘ - The River Cottage and 3 Hungry boys combined XI vs Fleet Cricket Club. In aid of Macmillan Cancer…
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2nd July – The Big Feastival
After a good day in London, pootling around, taking in the sights, we headed to what we knew would be a big event, The Big Feastival. It wasn’t just because of the name we thought this would be a big one. It’s a festival organised by a certain Chef that seems to be able to…
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1st July – BBC White City and London
On a sunny Friday morning we decided to give breakfast to all the lovely people at the BBC. The plan was to catch them on their commute between the White City tube station and Television Centre itself, meet lots of famous people and you never know maybe even get on telly! Well that didn’t happen,…
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23rd-24th June – Glastonbury
Now I assume you all know about the Glastonbury festival (if not, maybe you should pay more attention!), and like us, you probably heard rumours of the nightmare traffic outside of the festival every year… all roads blocked, local villages full of people trying to avoid the crowds, everyone becoming a little bit grumpy… well…
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