It’s summer – and that means that people all over the UK have a sudden urge to do things outdoors that they would normally do indoors, like cooking, drinking and listening to live music.<\/p>\n
If live music outdoors is your thing, you may be planning a trip to one of the year’s major outdoor music events – we’ve already had Glastonbury, but the BBC’s Proms in the Park<\/a> is still to come, as are a load of other outdoor music events:<\/p>\n Check out the UK Festival Calendar website<\/a> for loads more info and ideas!<\/p>\n While I’m talking about BBC Proms in the Park, it’s worth noting that it is not just taking place in London<\/a>‘s Hyde Park this year – concerts are also being put on in Dundee<\/a>, Caerphilly<\/a> and Bangor (just east of Belfast<\/a>, not the Welsh one!).<\/em><\/p>\n There’s also a new ‘Last Night of the Proms’ taking place this year – at Scarborough<\/a>‘s Open Air Theatre<\/a>, which only opened in 2010 but has already played host to Elton John, Jose Carreras and N-DUBZ, amongst others. This year’s Last Night of the Proms will be a classical event starring opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Why not treat yourself to a weekend by the seaside?<\/em><\/p>\n If you are planning to travel in a group to any of these events, then what you will probably need is to hire a minibus<\/a>. (Unless you are playing at any of them, in which case you may need to hire a splitter van<\/a>).<\/p>\n Hiring a minibus makes a lot more sense than taking two or three cars. Not only are you doing your bit to reduce traffic congestion going to the event (and thus reduce your queueing time), you will also spend less on fuel and only need to make sure that you have one driver who is sober and correct<\/a> when the time comes to drive home – leaving everyone else free to carry on partying a\u00a0 little longer…<\/p>\n If you are driving the minibus, don’t forget that it will not go under car park height barriers and it will be wider, slower through corners and need longer to brake than you may be used to. Apart from that, you shouldn’t find any major differences – modern vans and minibuses are very easy and pleasant to drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Festival season means minibus hire – check out our guide to the summer’s biggest festivals and our minibus hire tips for designated drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1071,1957,455,1072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Getting There<\/h3>\n