Family Festival

We’re heading to Latitude festival near Southwold on 12th – 15th July, with the kids, to experience a festival in beautiful surroundings that is less than a tenth the size of Glastonbury.
The boys are nine and eleven ( the nine year old prone to walking off without looking back and desperate for independence), they’ve got mobiles and I feel it is time they experienced a bit of freedom in a relaxed and safe environment with other children and lots of entertainment, before we have to pay full price (at the age of 13!)
As well as music there are theatre, literary, comedy and caberet arenas.
See the website for a neverending array of talent:
www.latitudefestival.co.uk

If you want to venture out to Southwold, a Suffolk resort, you might have to adjust to the genteel and impeccable rather than the hip and happening. The beach is disappearing fast, beach huts cost as much as four-bedroomed houses in more normal parts of the country and you can't throw a stick without hitting a vacationing Booker nominee or TV presenter. But lovely. And home to the Adnams brewery. And boasting the most middle-class pier in northern Europe.