Our very first Maifeld Derby! What is this you may ask. Well, Maifeld Derby is a music festival, organised by a group of music lovers, held for the fifth time in the MVV Horse Riding Stadium/ Maimarkt in Mannheim. Over a three day period, some 80 musicians both international and national will perform on four different stages to more than 4,000 visitors.
Not knowing what to expect, with two kids in tow, we pretty much had a minature "Rock am Ring" image embedded on our brain. So we did what other parents would probably do. Which was to fix a GPS-Trax Child (or pet) tracking device on each kid. Happily, once we got to the site we found the trackers to be pretty much irrelevant. Not only is the music compound arranged snugged and tight, it was rather family friendly too.
No music review here. Though daddy gave a raving reviews of the bands he picked out (Aurora, Roisin Murhy, Soak, Fink, Wanda, Charlie Cunningham, Only Real, Jose González, Rangleklods,...) this time I only had catering, good and quick toilet access and kids entertainment in mind.
What the kids loved most is the Hobby Horse Dressage. Dressage, pay attention here, according to Wikipedia, is a french term, loosely translated to mean "training". It is an art of riding performed in exhibition and competition. It is an equestrian sport defned by the International Equestrian Federation as the "highest expression of horse training" where the "horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a series of predetermined movements."
Got this? Well translate this to a hobby horse, where the rider is also the horse. The kids had a laugh. Even signed up to compete. What a show! What an amazing time they had!
http://www.festivalguide.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/15T3250%C2%A9Florian-Trykowski.jpg
Source:
http://www.festivalguide.de/news/2016/05/11/vier-tipps-fur-die-steckenpferd-dressur/
Not knowing what to expect, with two kids in tow, we pretty much had a minature "Rock am Ring" image embedded on our brain. So we did what other parents would probably do. Which was to fix a GPS-Trax Child (or pet) tracking device on each kid. Happily, once we got to the site we found the trackers to be pretty much irrelevant. Not only is the music compound arranged snugged and tight, it was rather family friendly too.
No music review here. Though daddy gave a raving reviews of the bands he picked out (Aurora, Roisin Murhy, Soak, Fink, Wanda, Charlie Cunningham, Only Real, Jose González, Rangleklods,...) this time I only had catering, good and quick toilet access and kids entertainment in mind.
What the kids loved most is the Hobby Horse Dressage. Dressage, pay attention here, according to Wikipedia, is a french term, loosely translated to mean "training". It is an art of riding performed in exhibition and competition. It is an equestrian sport defned by the International Equestrian Federation as the "highest expression of horse training" where the "horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a series of predetermined movements."
Got this? Well translate this to a hobby horse, where the rider is also the horse. The kids had a laugh. Even signed up to compete. What a show! What an amazing time they had!
http://www.festivalguide.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/15T3250%C2%A9Florian-Trykowski.jpg
Source:
http://www.festivalguide.de/news/2016/05/11/vier-tipps-fur-die-steckenpferd-dressur/
