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My mum has a significant birthday coming up in august and she has always wanted to go the Hay Book Festival, so we booked tickets and went on a car journey to Wales. This was unlike any festival I have experienced before not only did I feel like I was extremely middle class and educated but my goodness it was so civilised. By that I mean everyone was super polite even when the carpeted walkways were crowded, yes you read that right carpeted walkways so you don't have to wear wellies and the books don't get wet in rainy wales.
As you can imagine I couldn't go to a book festival without being just a little bit preppy in my outfits, and I purchased several books of course one of which is signed, but I will write about the books in another entry (post). However I spent most of the day wrapped up in a hoodie and a rain coat due to the extremely wet weather that the UK was experiencing.
By far one of the best things besides the copious amounts of books was the talks, we attended 2 talks over the weekend but wished we had booked tickets for more, for mum we went to see Joan Bakewell talk about the importance of history and out education system, and then as a random talk we went to the BBC tent for a talk about how to break into the media specifically television and radio. Both talks were extremely interesting and anyone who takes the "mick" out of Mr. Gove is brilliant in my book.
XO, Miriam
Hay Festival.
//Shirt - Zara//Cropped top - Topshop//Scarf - Zara//Skort - Zara// Tights - Joy//
My mum has a significant birthday coming up in august and she has always wanted to go the Hay Book Festival, so we booked tickets and went on a car journey to Wales. This was unlike any festival I have experienced before not only did I feel like I was extremely middle class and educated but my goodness it was so civilised. By that I mean everyone was super polite even when the carpeted walkways were crowded, yes you read that right carpeted walkways so you don't have to wear wellies and the books don't get wet in rainy wales.
As you can imagine I couldn't go to a book festival without being just a little bit preppy in my outfits, and I purchased several books of course one of which is signed, but I will write about the books in another entry (post). However I spent most of the day wrapped up in a hoodie and a rain coat due to the extremely wet weather that the UK was experiencing.
By far one of the best things besides the copious amounts of books was the talks, we attended 2 talks over the weekend but wished we had booked tickets for more, for mum we went to see Joan Bakewell talk about the importance of history and out education system, and then as a random talk we went to the BBC tent for a talk about how to break into the media specifically television and radio. Both talks were extremely interesting and anyone who takes the "mick" out of Mr. Gove is brilliant in my book.
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| A recreation of Dylan Thomas' writing desk |
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| Hot chocolate and a bag of books. |
XO, Miriam
Oh damn this looks amazing. How have I never heard of this before? The Edinburgh Book Festival is also really lovely. I'm organising a book swap for bloggers if you'd be interested!
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I had no idea it existed until my mum mentioned it! I have heard so many great things about the Edinburgh Book Festival!
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This looks amazing - I feel very jealous! I would have definitely gone home with more books than I could carry! :)
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We did go home with more books than we could carry or fit on any of the book shelves!
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