Somersault festival

After entering an Instagram competition held by @vitacocouk, my sister and I were delighted to win tickets to Somersault Festival in North Devon. We have only ever attended one other festival, V fest (for the past 5 years), which appeared to have a completely different vibe to Somersault so we were excited so see what it was all about.

We received tickets and 4 huge boxes of vitacoco coconut water in the post. The band tickets were for the long weekend (it ran from 23^rd- 27^th July), however we only attended on the Sunday as we were travelling to Devon on the Saturday for our annual 2 week holiday in North Devon.

 

Our treats from @Vitacocouk

 

It was BRILLIANT! In fact we bought an additional ticket for my boyfriend so he didn’t miss out on the fun. We had packed a few cartons of our prize coconut water and headed to the festival where we were dropped off by family. (Luckily we hadn’t parked as the tractors were hauling cars out of the mud).

Armed with wellies and raincoats we made our way to the centre of activity, checking out all the shop and activity tents along the way. At the centre was a huge beautiful tent stage decorated with bunting and lights. Surrounding this were bars, all the best food stops you could dream of, clothing and craft tents. My dinner for the evening consisted of falafel with a tasty mixed homemade salad, while the others grabbed a meaty beef burger and a burrito.

The Main Stage

 

There was a section of the festival I completely fell in love with. This was an area dedicated to health and wellbeing. To access it you walked over a pretty stone bridge. Here sports masseuses worked and yoga classes were run – my favourite. Unfortunately we missed the yoga class but next year I hope to attend a few.

The Pretty Stone Bridge

 

One of the many yoga tents

After we had toured around the site we stopped to listen to the wonderful Jimmy Cliffe, whose reggae music brought happiness and sunshine to the rain which was coming down on us festival-goers. I couldn't resist a good boogie with my sister and boyfriend. Other artists of the weekend included, Passenger, Imelda May, Laura Marling, Bombay Bicycle Club and many more.

Dancing to Jimmy Cliffe

 

At the Vitacoco tent the three of us enjoyed freebies of black coconut oil coffee- I enjoyed it, however the others did not. But that’s just a taste thing. We all like different things! The Vitacoco tent was very chilled out and had its own dj and set of bean bags to lie on while sipping your Vitacoco drinks. It was nice cosy place to escape from the main festival for a while whilst enjoying a warm drink.

The Vitacoco Tent

 

Throughout the day we also visited the Pukka Tea tent (my particular favourite), where we were able to sample a range of different teas in the form of shots (something which made us giggle as we threw our heads back to drink it). The lady also gave us a huge number of sample tea bags to take away for free. These teas were perfect for the weather, which again had turned cloudy and cold.

The Pukka Tent

 

There was just so much to do, we definitely needed a good four days there to appreciate all the activities. Things I wish I had seen/attended but didn’t get chance to were the Surfers Against Sewage talks, watch the Gorilla Circus, hear more artists on the stage and chill out with some tent yoga.

Directions to events

 

Next year is a must! I would recommend this festival to all ages – I even want to take my parents! This is definitely a festival for the free-spirits, fun lovers and adventurers. Don’t expect too much crazy like you would find at other festivals. Both my sister and I agreed that this festival was far better than V fest due to no idiots attending(everyone simply wishes to enjoy themselves), it is a smaller festival and therefore cosier and less easy to get lost, and just the general vibe and activities were more suited to us. We just wish we had heard of it before and would like to thank @vitacocouk for giving us the chance to attend!

Here are a few more photos from the day...



 

 

 

 

 

Hope to see you there next year,

ellieee x