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Summer Festivals of 2017

For Me the summer isn't complete without a festival or two. Here's what we got up to in 2017 and all the amazing vegan places we found to eat.

The first festival of the year and one of my favorites is Glastonbury which was at the end of June.


Unlike 2016 with all the mud, Glasto' 2017 was a heatwave. It was so nice to be able to get around without getting stuck and worn out.
There is so much to see and do at Glastonbury from bands, poets, acrobats and there is even a kids field filled with lots for them to do. There are also a lot of food stalls around with some offering vegan options, but there are some completely vegan caterers which made life so much easier. These include:
Veggies of Nottingham
Vegan Pyramid
Club Mexicana
Happi Maki
The Fritter Shack (vegan options)
Labonne Crepe (vegan options)
No Bones Jones (vegan Options)
Pan De Mania Wood Fired Pizza (vegan options)
Gandhi's Flip-Flop (vegan Options)
Goodness Gracious (vegan options)
Buddhafield Cafe

There are probably many more but these are the ones I can remember, also we didn't have time to visit them all  but its good to see that there are so many places to grab a Vegan bite to eat.

Pyramid stage being set up


Sunset over the Green Fields


Next on the list was Latitude festival.


Latitude is a pretty chilled out festival, again with lots to see and do.
There's the Comedy Tent, Spoken Word Tent, Magical Forest, Dance music in the Woods, to name a few. There really is something for everyone.
There wasn't a huge selection of vegan options at this festival, but we were pleasantly surprised when we came across The Vegan Food Pod (our hero's for the weekend). They did everything from yummy cake to amazing Curries. Sorry was too busy eating to take many pics.

The Vegan Food Pod Hotdogs

There was also The Happy Maki but we didn't get a chance to eat here as the queue's were always really long.

Next up and important to help us keep cool were Lickalix who did the most amazing ice lollies, they even had some adult only ices, so everyone was catered for.



We also paid a visit to the Oatly stand, who were giving out free t-shirts and temp tattoo's for the Post Milk Generation. You could also buy some Oatly based drinks. They always seemed really busy whenever we passed by.



The final festival of 2017 was The Green Gathering in Chepstow.
The weather for this one wasn't brilliant, with gale force winds when we turned up, which was fun trying to set up our tent, it also decided that it was going to rain on and off all weekend but that's just one of those things.
Like other festivals there was lots to see and do here.

View of the Severn Bridge

one of the unusual stalls


We saw the Antipoet twice while at the Green Gathering and love them as they are very different. We even saw them at Glastonbury without realising......They are well worth checking out.

The Antipoet

There was plenty of arts and crafts around for people to enjoy. Its amazing what you can find when you go for a wander. We even came across a Unicorn....

Art in the woods

Art in the wood
We even got to see an amazing moon while we were here too.


So these are my top three festivals that we were at in 2017. We did attend other Vegan Festivals throughout the year all over the UK which were all amazing .
We look forward to all the Festivals in 2018.

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