Of All the events I regularly attend, the Heysham Viking Festival is one of my firm favourites It's not just the tremendous amount of local support it receives, or the massive opportunity for Public Engagement, or the talks delivered by respected experts in the field of Viking Studies, or even that it's where I met my partner-in-crime - Adam Parsons - back in 2016 which was instrumental in setting my on my current course. Like all good things, it's a mixture of all the above,