It was 7pm and we were pulling up to a palace. This definitely beat the local London boozer on a Thursday night. After taking a speedy train from Paddington to Oxford - still enough time for an enjoyable G&T en route - we were taxiing it up to the entrance of Blenheim Palace. Built between 1705 and 1722, this place has played host to an array of fine gentry and it is where Sir Winston Churchill was born. Now the stately home - the Duke of Marlborough's primary residence - is open to the public with a mix of events on throughout the year, from musical extravaganzas to open air cinema ses...
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While for a lot of us festivals are synonymous with shameful behaviour, laced with filth and an over-indulgent loss of brain cells, Wilderness offers a delightfully different approach with ‘a celebration shaped by nature, a landscape transformed by the arts’ - hosted by the Secret Forum, with support from the Huffington Post. Wilderness aims to invigorate the mind and enhance the senses. Could it be possible to come back from a festival feeling better about ourselves? We think it might…
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