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Glastonbury Festival 09′ – Here We Come!!!!!!!

Hang on I know what your thinking… “Wait, Glastonbury Festival 2009 has been and gone already” Yes it’s true but we thought it would fun to share with you our latest adventures in a field in deepest Somerset.

Glastonbury this year was held between Thursday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2009.

We have written this as if it was a diary/Journal of our time in Glastonbury so we will do a series of posts to give you an idea of what it is like to be at the festival.

Wednesday 24th June 5:00am

There are 3 of us (we won’t scare you with a picture, we need to loose the beer bellies before we introduce ourselves) we are all mid twenties and we are all preparing to make our regular pilgrimage to our favourite Farm and some hardcore camping.

There’s Mark, Steve and myself. and you can imagine the sight of 3 men who fell out of bed at 4.45am unshaven and severely lacking a few Bacon sandwiches (sorry Vegetarians).

We decided to take 177 mile (3 hours 30 minute) journey in Steve’s Camper Van.

Now we aren’t the most organised lads, and of course we should have made a list to make sure we packed everything in the van, so we stood around staring in Steve’s Garage trying to figure out what we needed to take with us, it was at this point that Mark said “I think we need to take a tent lads” and we started dislodging the resident Spiders and other creepy Crawlies in Steve’s garage getting all the camping gear together.

While the other two were destroying shelving and counting out and in tent pegs which took at least an hour I went to figure out how to wire up the iPod to Steve’s Van which involved a lot of messing around in the front, it was really an excuse to avoid the other two. Unaware the had triple counted the pegs and packing up the tent I said “We don’t need tent pegs we’ll get them on site (as the Cows that live on that land the rest of the year accidentally eat the metal pegs” that went down well and resulted in me wearing a cold cup of tea!!

It took around 5 hrs to pack up the kit for the trip, we then planned to stop for breakfast and then go to the supermarket to get some BBQ food and some refreshments for our weekend.

Having done this trip to the Glastonbury Festival for over 10 years we also have a pretty good Glastonbury Survival Guide which we are going to include up here next posting.

14:00

Now refreshed with Bacon Sandwiches and lashings of Coffee and Tea and surviving the Supermarket Check out Cue for nearly 3 hours we got back to Steve’s with all that we needed, we wacked all the cold stuff in the fridge and freezer and then Mark went out to get fuel.  It took him 2 hours and the local Petrol station is only 5 miles away!! He said he was listening to the iPod and lost track of time, (not the first time on this weekend)

18:00

We finished packing the van then I said “Lets go get freshened up and go for a Curry and a few beers, we got back a few hours later keeping a clear head for the journey tomorrow.

23:00

Last Check:

Tickets x 3

Tent x 1

Us x 3

iPod Charged

all checked and sorted thats it time for an early night… Tomorrow all we need to do is back the food, Drinks and then we be on the road to Glastonbury Festival 2009 going back to see the Tor, get lost on the roads and fields around Pilton and as it turned out in the county of Somerset too.

We are really looking forward to seeing Bruce Springsteen and the legend that is Neil Young too, it’s true Glastonbury is music but our favourite places are the Green fields and the odd Festival shows that go on as well!

Until next time I hope you enjoy your journey with us!!!!