Food in the park
Feb. 10th, 2006 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithUmmed and aahed about going to Festivale.
It's the annual food & wine festival in Launceston's City Park. It's a bit of fun & one of the few annual events the city has. And it costs $10 to get in.
What does this $10 get you? The oppurtunity to spend even more on food. Which strikes me as a bit silly.
OK I do like Festivale, but I think what if it was free entry and it ran for longer and there were other things on in the surrounding area like an outdoor market & fairground stalls & more street performers and, oh that would be Taste of Tasmania, wouldn't it. Not that I'm suggesting the Taste is any way better that Festivale. I wouldn't do that. (sigh)
Still, I had a camera to try out, so I went.
I didn't get that many photos in the end. The battery went flat on me just when I sat down to watch some of the performers :( And it was sunny/late evening, which means long, dark shadowsm interspersed with bright patches. The worst conditions for digitals photos, I think.
Still, you can get an idea about the thing.
From up on the hill.
It's effectively a circle of food & wine stalls, with tables and seats in the middle (left side of photo) and the main stage at the front of that. Then there's a smaller stage at one end (walk out of photo to the left) and an area for street performers at the other end. There's an area for kids just on the right of entrance. Plus the usual park features (playground, monkeys, duck pond, conservatory) which probably add to the attraction of the site if you don't get there very often.
It had just opened when I got there, so it was quiet still. There were a lot of dessert types places (ice creams, pancakes etc) this year compared to savoury food.
Finally bought a venison burger with brie cheese & salad, a bowl of fruit (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries & apricots with a icecream) and a scallop shell with scallop stuff.
From the band rotunda.
Taiko Drummers, one of the performing groups.
It's the annual food & wine festival in Launceston's City Park. It's a bit of fun & one of the few annual events the city has. And it costs $10 to get in.
What does this $10 get you? The oppurtunity to spend even more on food. Which strikes me as a bit silly.
OK I do like Festivale, but I think what if it was free entry and it ran for longer and there were other things on in the surrounding area like an outdoor market & fairground stalls & more street performers and, oh that would be Taste of Tasmania, wouldn't it. Not that I'm suggesting the Taste is any way better that Festivale. I wouldn't do that. (sigh)
Still, I had a camera to try out, so I went.
I didn't get that many photos in the end. The battery went flat on me just when I sat down to watch some of the performers :( And it was sunny/late evening, which means long, dark shadowsm interspersed with bright patches. The worst conditions for digitals photos, I think.
Still, you can get an idea about the thing.
From up on the hill.
It's effectively a circle of food & wine stalls, with tables and seats in the middle (left side of photo) and the main stage at the front of that. Then there's a smaller stage at one end (walk out of photo to the left) and an area for street performers at the other end. There's an area for kids just on the right of entrance. Plus the usual park features (playground, monkeys, duck pond, conservatory) which probably add to the attraction of the site if you don't get there very often.
It had just opened when I got there, so it was quiet still. There were a lot of dessert types places (ice creams, pancakes etc) this year compared to savoury food.
Finally bought a venison burger with brie cheese & salad, a bowl of fruit (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries & apricots with a icecream) and a scallop shell with scallop stuff.
From the band rotunda.
Taiko Drummers, one of the performing groups.
