Blogs from Glastonbury, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

So my Glastonbury virginity has finally been taken. After years of wanting to go to this amazing festival, I now feel a more complete person and am already hoping that I am lucky enough to get a ticket again next year... I travelled up with my friend Laura from college and two more recent friends from University, James and Kate. We thought it would be wise to drive through the night, to avoid getting into any traffic to this little Somerset village. The journey also included passing Stone Henge! There were heaps of people there as they were about to celebrate the Summer Solstice... Parking the car at the festival site was fine, but the walk from there to our decided camping area wasn't quite... It took us at least half an hour to walk ... read more

Well what can I say! Hayden, Huia, Mazz, Sheree, Ben,Rachel, Jess, Guesty, Mike Kaz, Nic and I leave Victoria coach sation at around 7 and arrive at Glastonbury 5 hours later. Awesome site over 70,000 tents and 170,000 people crammed in for the music festival to end all. One small problem RAIN!! by Friday morning the mud is ankle deep no matter where you go. We took a tour round the site which took nearly half a day and get our bearings everything from any sort of food or drink you can imagine to casinos 7 stages with bands playing and dance tents galore. Saw some horrific sights hippies running around and people diving through the mud!! STUFF THAT! Went and saw the Who at the pyrimid stage which was awesome. Other bands we saw included ... read more

Hello again avid readers. I'm happy to report that after four months of USB cable problems, lack of internet, and just plain laziness, I have finally gotten off my ass (well on it really) and uploaded photos. Check out the previous blog entries to see them. In other news, I am doing well. I'm currently living in Glastonbury with Micheal so life is good, if not a little bit boring. I'll put in aroute map because I'm bored and I'm scared to go downstairs where Micheal is in the process of rebuilding our kitchen. Who is Micheal, and why is he tearing apart our kitchen? Well, Micheal, (and that is indeed the proper spelling, inpronouncable I know) is the my new reason for being. A brief meeting the first time I came to Glastonbury led to ... read more

We arrived in London last week to Winnie's brother's house outside of London. Her brother Matt and his wife Deb have a lovely home with 3 little ones; Courtney, Jessica and Louis. I was surprised at all the green space here, I pictured London to be much more crowded and suspect this is the case closer to town center. Our first touristy trip was to Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world, home to Her Majesty The Queen. She wasn't in the day were there so was unavailable for comment or photos. I asked one of the gaurds if they have beer and pizza night with Queenie, but he didn't have much to say. The place was like nothing I have ever seen in my life, the artwork was what blew ... read more

Well, we've made it back home after an absolutely crazy weekend! We arrived on Thursday afternoon after a full day of travelling on trains and buses, and were greeted with a spectacular sunny afternoon. Some of our friends had arrived the previous day and had set up a great campsite just inside the main gate - we wouldn't know exactly how good the site was until the next afternoon... Audrey and I took a wander around the site to get our bearings, Glastonbury is absolutely massive. We made it about halfway across the site (over to the Jazz stage), where we found the pear cider bus (delicious) and had to turn back to make sure we'd get home before dark. Friday morning was a completely different story. Here's Audrey's thoughts... We had a fabulous time with ... read more