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Butlins Fun & Disco with Steve & Michaela

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Hip Hip Hooray!  Time for another superb holiday at Butlins! With bubbling excitement, we met up and made our way to Skegness where we found our very comfortable gold lodges.  We felt at home right away and were bursting to set off to explore!     Our week was packed FULL of fun and we were out enjoying our days of glorious sunshine.  We took a lovely trip to Hardy's Animal Farm where we saw pigs, ducks, goats, lambs, chicks, llamas and horses!  Everyone adored the animals and we even got to stroke some.           On another day we went to the Seal Sanctuary and Wildlife Center. There was so much to see and do!   We fed the lovely seals and wandered around the colourful aquarium, the crocodile house, the butterfly house and the petting zoo.   We even visited the funny penguins that waddled around happily.   We then took the scenic drive to Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve, an unspoilt stretch o...

Latitude Music, Arts & Dance Festival with Derek & Melanie

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Watch out Latitude, here we come!  What an absolutely FANTASTIC three days we had at this vibrant and vivacious festival!  As soon as we arrived we could feel the anticipation in the air.    We entered the festival through the beautiful shaded forest where we were greeted by real life fairies and elves!  Glowing lights hung from tree to tree, luring us in to explore what was on offer.          Over our time at the festival, we saw many wonderful musicians and bands in all of the different tents, such as Clean Bandit, The Bombay Bicycle Club, The Black Keys, Damon Albarn, Asgeir and many many more!  We danced with all the energy we could muster and sang loudly to the ones we knew!       We had lots of laughs at the comedy and poetry tents, where we saw Dara O'Brian, Kevin Bridges, Marcus Brigstocke, Marcus Lucont, Seann Walsh, Nick Helm, Jenny Lindsay, Alexis Dubus and more!...