I was invited by Lincoln Bloggers UK to go along to Rand Festival on Friday, 12th August (side note: if you’re a blogger in the Lincoln area, sign up to join the Lincoln Bloggers group – there’s plenty of fun opportunities to help support local businesses). Rand Festival is the annual 2-day festival held at Rand Farm, which is a working farm near the Lincolnshire Wolds, puts on. Growing up in the Wolds, it was a day out I always looked forward to as a kid, and it was certainly a nostalgic blast to the past returning as an adult.
Rand Festival delights all ages – usually the first evening is adults evening, with the second day for families, and I went along to the adults evening. I personally really liked it being split this way, as it allowed us adults to relive our youth, having the trampolines and play equipment to ourselves for a change! There was a stage for music, several food and drink stalls, and activities including karts and crazy golf. Another element of Rand Fest I really liked was how activities were included in the ticket admission price. Sometimes you get an unpleasant shock at a festival, discovering you still need to pay £3 just to go on one ride, but this was far from the case at Rand.
With the activities being close enough to hear the music acts loud and clearly, I decided to try out some of these first. My boyfriend and I took on the challenge of foot golf, something we were keen to try for the first time. Turns out, I’m a bit of a natural! Foot golf is definitely something I’d play again in the future. Sometimes at festivals you have to queue for what feels like hours to do anything, but because there was plenty of activities and more on offer, we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of minutes to do anything. Once it started to get darker, we grabbed pizza (I had a delicious stone-baked Hawaiian) and boogied to Rand Festival’s headline act, ABBAMagic. I’ve seen ABBA tribute acts before so I had high expectations… and they lived up to them, and more. ABBAMagic kept the crowd engaged and dancing all the way through their set, and they genuinely sounded like the real thing.
There’s a couple of things Rand Festival could introduce next year to some of the activities – e.g. for the crazy golf I’d love to see printed scorecards, and clearer markers of where each hole starts – but these are just small things and didn’t take anything away from the night. Rand Fest was an overwhelming success, and I hope it continues for years to come.
(Lincoln Bloggers UK gave me a press invite to Rand Fest. All images used in this post are mine; you must ask for my permission before using any).
The Ginger Globetrotter🌍 