Purbeck Valley Folk Festival near Corfe Castle

     This was our first outing to the Purbeck Folk Folk Festival, held near Swanage in Dorset over the August bank holiday weekend.
     We arrived about 3 o'clock on Thursday and we parked the caravan at top of the hill above the rest of the festival.
     We can see the sea off Swanage from here, it's lovely view but I don't think that it'll be ours for much longer.  One downside of being up here on top of the hill is that it means a long walk down into the valley to see the festivities.  Carol & John are here and it's a musical getaway first for all of us.

It looks on a slope but the caravan's level, thank God!

Lovely sea views on Thursday afternoon

Time to relax :)

At the bottom of the hill to join in the early entertainment.

Panorama view on Thursday evening

Friday afternoon

Claire must be 'high' on drugs as she's about to take off! (look at her feet)

Santa's elf doesn't look pleased

     The Fire Stage was our favourite as it was a sunlit natural ampitheatre in the middle of the woods with dragonflies flitting to and fro.  Really idyllic!

Mike activates his remote fart machine

      On Sunday evening, there were messages about moving any cars from the main car park in the valley to avoid coming wet weather, some moved them but most didn't.  Come Monday morning, there was a lot of cars trying to struggle up the hill due to the wet grass and mud.
      We all really enjoyed ourselves and vowed to come next year !  It was a really personal & quiet festival.