Abergavenny Food Festival

Well the weekend was spent mostly at the food festival, the weather was fantastic for the event and lots to do and see and eat .... Check out the first batch of photos, will add some more later taken on the second day. Josephs highlight was .... I will let him tell you about that one later but he has just left for school. The kids went to a cooking academy and baked some Welsh Pancakes, which basically are just another name for Pikelets, or drop scones as they are also called here. Also got to paint up their own cotton aprons with fabric paint. Check out the website over time as well as Maddy ended up in a couple of official photos that they said could be on the website or next years advertising, one cooking and a group shot of all that group (Sundays group where Joseph did not go in) and individually and also with a huge ball of candyfloss. They cooked fish cakes on Sunday, not sure Maddy was so keen to eat those though. http://www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/

Most of the activities and kids things were in the castle, which I will add some photos later (need batteries for the camera) - this is a ruin of a castle.

This weekend we are heading to London for 2 days, going on Saturday morning and coming back on Sunday evening, last visit before we leave so make the most of it and see as much as possible. Want to go back to the museum and gallery, as well as science museum, madam tussauds etc.

But back to the festival, there were a lot of TV and book chefs around on both days, if you have read 'The Man who Ate the World' he was there and How got his autographs as has the book (I gave it to him for Xmas), also Great British Menu chefs and other TV ones, two of who we went to a talk Shaun Hill and Stephen Terry - first who owns a local restaurant and appeared so far twice on GBM (winning last year) and the other from TV but now owns the Walnut Tree restaurant here. http://thewalnuttreeinn.com/ and http://www.thehardwick.co.uk/ you probably won't be bothered looking but good for remembering.

So now to some photos, above are a mix from around the first day.