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1 week ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
A farm shop known for its local produce and onsite cafe is set to bring back a popular summer event. Macknade, in Faversham, is throwing a launch party for the return of its outdoor street food village over the Easter bank holiday weekend. The site’s Food Village offers a selection of dishes from Kent-based vendors and drinks from pop-up bars over the spring and summer months.
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1 week ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
If you’re bound to overindulge on Easter eggs and roast potatoes over the bank holiday weekend and fancy something a little different, there’s a buzzing food and drink festival coming to the coast. The Broadstairs Food Festival returns this spring with stacks of sizzling street food vendors, pop-up bars and local producers.
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1 week ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
Children’s author and TV star David Walliams is celebrating the release of his latest book with a fan meet-and-greet. The former Britain’s Got Talent judge will be stopping off at Bluewater shopping centre in Greenhithe, near Dartford, to sign copies of his new book, the World’s Worst Superheroes. The Waterstones book signing is expected to draw large crowds, so ticketholders are being warned that queues will be likely.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
The countdown to the four-day weekend is on and it’s only a matter of days before we’re cracking open the chocolate Easter eggs and kicking back in the bank holiday sunshine. Make this long weekend one to remember with 10 great days out for the whole family…BETTESHANGER COUNTRY PARK, DealFollow Billy, the park’s resident Easter Bunny, as you hop along the woodland trail in search of missing Easter eggs.
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2 weeks ago | 
mykentfamily.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
One of Kent’s quirkiest attractions is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Diggerland, in Strood, started as a way for families to get up close to construction machinery and has grown into the country’s leading digger-themed amusement park with four locations across the nation. The idea was born almost 30 years ago when the chairman of H E Services (Plant Hire) Ltd, Hugh Edeleanu, realised that children were fascinated by the construction and digging machinery that his company supplied.
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2 weeks ago | 
mykentfamily.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
Thinking about taking the kids on a museum trip over the Easter holidays but worried about waiting in long lines and getting caught in the gift shop on the way out? You’re in luck – the Science Museum, one of London's biggest tourist attractions, is coming to Kent during the half-term. Science Museum Live is a new stage show that brings together jaw-dropping experiments and fascinating facts from across a broad range of topics.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
A seaside attraction is putting on a bumper weekend of free live music over the Easter bank holiday. Folkestone’s Harbour Arm, which boasts a selection of food and drink outlets and outdoor performance spaces, will welcome visitors to enjoy live bands, singers and musicians over the four-day weekend. It all kicks off with The Hysterics, a Kent-based covers band that plays decade-spanning rock and blues songs. The group will launch the weekend’s festivities at 2pm on Good Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
Thinking about taking the kids on a museum trip over the Easter holidays but worried about waiting in long lines and getting caught in the gift shop on the way out? You’re in luck – the Science Museum, one of London's biggest tourist attractions, is coming to Kent during the half-term. Science Museum Live is a new stage show that brings together jaw-dropping experiments and fascinating facts from across a broad range of topics.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentonline.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
A quirky convention celebrating the colourful world of body art and modification returns to Kent for the bank holiday weekend. The Maidstone Tattoo Extravaganza, organised by local couple Fraser and Samantha Williams, will bring together more than 100 tattoo artists for its seventh year. The three-day event will showcase work by tattooists from across the country, as well as artists from further afield.
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2 weeks ago | 
mykentfamily.co.uk | Sam Lawrie
Kent’s many acres of ancient woodland make it the perfect place to find beautiful bluebells. It’s that time of year when these familiar bell-shaped perennials return to our countryside. They’ll be dotted all over the county over the next month or so but, if you want to know where to start, here’s some sure-fire spots to find them…BEDGEBURY NATIONAL PINETUM AND FOREST, GoudhurstThis breathtaking forest will be covered by a carpet of blue and violet this spring.
