This weekend I went to Glastonbury Festival for the first time in my life. It was an amazing experience and I’m glad that I got to see the craziness that is Glasto.
The place is so vast it’s mind blowing!
Thousands upon thousands of tents... pitched in the mud!
It was very, very muddy. I tried to not be too much of a princess about it. I didn’t complain (much) and just concentrated on plodding on and not falling over. Lil’ L managed to fall over 3 times in the first half hour! It’s hard work wading through mud for hours, but at least it gives your legs a good workout. 😉
Glad I bought some boots!
My favourite area of the festival was ‘The Unfairground’. This zone invites you to the dark side of the world where plane wrecks, mutants and freaks all groove to Bez’s Acid House. I fitted in well there 😉
The plane wreck below was actually a tequila bar! You had to pick your way through the debris, then prop up the bar in the company of a blood drenched aviator. Lovely!
Lil’ L was a bit in awe and a bit freaked out by The Unfairground!
Unfortunately, we didn’t make it to Shangri-La – the “futuristic and dystopian wonderland”… as it didn’t open until 11pm 🙁
Block9 was another late-night wonderland that we missed, but we did manage to see the incredible ‘London Underground’ – a 50ft tower block with a life-size, Tube train-cum-night club. I would have loved to have seen it at night time when it was all ablaze.
The London Underground in Block9
I also loved the Greenpeace field. Greenpeace is celebrating its 40th anniversary and it was great to join in the birthday celebrations with them. There was cake, party games.. the whole sherbang!
The fish-cum-cafe below was actually made of old CDs!
There were some great installations by Greenpeace.
There were tons of vegetarian and vegan cafes and eateries at the festival. We sampled the veggie burgers, falafel pittas and paella. It was all delish. My favourite refreshment had to be the fruit smoothie which was blended using pedal power to generate the electricity for the blender! Very cool and fun to watch!
Blending smoothies through pedal power!
All in all, it was a great experience… and I didn’t get THAT muddy!!!
Fabulous. The music was fantastic but as you say there was so much more to see and do.
I’ll be hooking our blender up to my bike in the garage for Green smoothies.
Fabulous. The music was fantastic but as you say there was so much more to see and do.
I’ll be hooking our blender up to my bike in the garage for Green smoothies.