I admit it I’m a festival convert. I know for most people the word ‘festival’ conjures up psytrance hippies or drunken hipsters with flowers in their beards but there is more to festivals than alcohol driven music raves where sun and sex are the only goals. Of course the word festival can cover anything from classical music to religious holidays to Burning Man but to a really good festival of any description is about one thing, a celebration of community. I recently had the p

Nothing is better than a summer spent travelling festival to festival. You have your musical extravagances, your fire and circus intensives, your hippied out yoga retreats and then there is Burning Man. Burning Man is a whole other experience. Often portrayed by the mainstream media as the biggest drug fuelled party on the planet. If you show up on the plya believing this is going to be just another crazy party, you may be in for a shock. I have just gotten back from Kiwiburn