TICKETS: £100 per person for the weekend. Tel: 0115 912 9129.
WEBSITE: www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
ACCOMMODATION: Your Tent or Mine?
DRESS: Bring your beads and hope for dry weather.
Gazetted Festivals
Isle of Wight Festival Various locations, 3 - 16 June.
Kingsbridge Music Week Town locations, 5 - 15 June.
David Bowie's Meltdown, London Royal Festival Hall, 12 - 30 June.
Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival, Cheshire Town and Canal locations, 14 - 16 June.
Source: eFestivals
June Agricultural Shows
The Royal Cornwall Show
DATE: 6 - 8 June, 2002.
VENUE: The Royal Cornwall Showground,
Wadebridge, Cornwall PL27 7JE
WHAT IT IS: The Royal Cornwall, which goes back to 1793, is the West Country's major agricultural fair, which also
serves as a trade show, a family event and a place to spot
Royalty and the nobility. The event's Patron, the Queen,
has been known to visit the show on the opening day, accompanied
by the Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke of Gloucester is also a
visitor. Past highlights have included performances by the
Band of the Royal Corps of Signals, the Royal Artillery
Parachute Team, and top show-jumpers.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND TICKETS: Write to Christopher Riddle, Secretary, Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association,
The Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge, Cornwall
PL27 7JE; tel: 01208 812183; fax: 01208 812713; email:
rcaa@btinternet.com. Tickets cost from around £9.
WEBSITE: www.royalcornwall.co.uk
GETTING THERE: The showground is 1.5 miles west of Wadebridge, North Cornwall, on the A39, and is signposted
from main routes. Car parking is free. Bodmin Parkway is
the nearest train station, and Newquay the nearest airport.
DRESS: Smart country outfits.
ACCOMMODATION: Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant , Riverside, Padstow PL28 8BY; tel: 01841 532700; fax: 01841 532942; email: reservations@rickstein.com.
Rick Stein, the world renowned TV chef and writer on seafood cuisine, has brought fame to Padstow, the picturesque North Cornwall fishing village about 10 miles from the showground. Above his waterfront
Seafood Restaurant are 13 en-suite rooms overlooking the
breathtaking Camel estuary. The restaurant has a
worldwide reputation. From about £90 per double room with
breakfast. But don't forget to dine there as well.
If Rick Stein's establishment is fully booked, (a likely scenario), try:
The Metropole, Station Road, Padstow, PL28 8DB. Tel: 01870 400 8122; fax: 01841 532867. The imposing 50 room Victorian hotel stands on a hill overlooking Padstow, its harbour and the sweep of the Camel estuary.
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