Win a spot on the Waterford Harvest Festival food bloggers’ tour!
August 21, 2012 in Competitions
The Harvest Festival takes place from September 10 to 16 in the historic city of Waterford. This is Ireland’s biggest food festival and will be featuring top chefs along with leading artisan food producers, Slow Food tours, wine and whiskey tasting, giant street markets, an artisan beer festival, restaurant trails and variety of events for all the family.
Neven Maguire, Kevin Dundon and Darina Allen will be showcasing their culinary skills, along with BBC’s Martin Dorey, presenter of the hit TV series One Man and his Campervan and author of the Camper Van Cookbook.
The 2012 GIY Gathering will take place in the city during the Harvest Festival and sees BBC’s Alys Fowler and Mark Diacono of River Cottage join a host of Irish stars on September 15 and 16. The GIY Gathering will also include guest speaker Roger Doiron from the US, the inspiration behind Michelle Obama’s White House vegetable garden and founder of Kitchen Gardeners International.
For a full programme of events see waterfordharvestfestival.ie
The organisers of the Waterford Harvest Festival have put together an amazing trip for food bloggers and they would like to invite one lucky winner to join them on Thursday and Friday, 13/14 September, for a complimentary Harvest Festival Tour, overnighting at The Tower Hotel in Waterford City.
For your chance to win a spot on this Harvest Festival tour (see below for the itinerary), just leave a comment on this post telling us what you like about Waterford before 12 noon on Wednesday, 29 August.
You need to have a live food blog to enter the competition – and do please make sure you are free to attend this event on Thursday and Friday, 13/14 September before you enter!
One entry per person please – multiple entries will be disqualified. The winner will be randomly chosen and notified by email.
Food Bloggers Harvest Tour Itinerary
Arrive Thursday 13th September
10am Blaa making demonstration
11am Visit Bilberry Goats and cheese
12pm Curry War Lunch
1pm Cookery Demonstration. John Robert Square
2pm Slow Food Tour to Dunhill Ecopark & Community Gardens, Crough Venison Farm & Beekeepers Federation Apiary
4pm Return to City
Free time
6pm Tapini Night at Bodega
Friday 14th September
9.30am Walking tour of Viking Triangle
10.30am Coffee and treats – venue tbc
11.15am VIP tour of Visit to new Medieval Museum
1pm Fair Day at Ballybricken (includes lunch).
Free time
This competition is now closed. Congratulations to winner Fiona Dillon.
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tracey said on August 23, 2012
Fair day in Ballybricken would be a highlight but the other activities sound amazing also!
Fiona Dillon said on August 23, 2012
Restaurants, shops, hotels, good atmosphere, what’s not to like about Waterford – and the new motorway makes it so accessible now too..
Sarah O\'Riordan said on August 24, 2012
Having recently moved from Waterford would love to go back to visit all my favourite restaurants and shops.
Daniela Loyola said on August 26, 2012
Hello,
Do you have any free buses to go there, from Dublin?
Tks,
Daniela
Grainne Murphy said on August 27, 2012
Looking forward to the fair day, the curry war lunch, the cooking demonstrations and some wine tasting but the highlight for me will be hearing what Mark Diacono from River Cottage has to say, can’t wait!
Deb said on August 27, 2012
My favourite thing about Waterford is the sunset on Cheekpoint, simply stunning. <3
Adrienne said on August 29, 2012
Sounds like a great couple of days of events.