More Glastonbury pictures!

This is the Pyramid stage:



This is the Other Stage with tents in the foreground and more tents in the far background:


This is me dancing to crazy gypsy tunes in the mud:


This is the wood oven used by the hippie commune to bake:

Our Glastonbury programme

There is so much to see during the festival, you wouldn't believe it! Apart from music, you have the opportunity to view dance, theatre, comedy, poetry, movies, as well as taking part in political debates, informing yourself about the protection of the environment, gardening, about peace, and discover new delicacies from other parts of the world.

You feel like running all day from one show to the next (as much as you can run in the mud!) and at the end of the day, you realise that you have seen only half a dozen things. Compared to the 700 performances there were over 3 days, this is very little...

So, here is what we saw, although not always the entire show:

FRIDAY

Mr. Hudson and the Library, music - UK
Adjagas, music - Norway
Film: Glastonbury Gap Year, movie
The Hours
Big Beats, music (drumming on recycled material)
Movimientos, music, dance - Latin America
Tacto Latino, music, dance - UK
Super Furry Animals, music - Wales, UK
Radio Four presents Four in a Field, comedy - UK
Arctic Monkeys, music, UK
Björk, music, Iceland

favourite show on Friday: Movimientos, or maybe Big Beats

SATURDAY

Breakfast with Howard Marks (Trave went, I stayed in the dried tent!)
CSS, music - Brazil
Slovo , music, UK (now, wait for this, we recognised the guitarist, and yes, we know him, or rather, Trave and his brother know him very well, I met him only once. Used to play in Faithless)
Jeremy Hardy, comedy - UK
Rhythm Wave, samba music
Marcus Bridgstocke, comedy - UK
Phil Kay, comedy (was not very funny though)- UK
Mitch Benn, music & comedy - UK
Mr Scruff, music - UK
The Killers, music - UK
Iggy and the Stooges, music - USA (did not stay for long, I could not bear the swearing...)
Rodrigo y Gabriela, music - Colombia

favourite show on Saturday: Rodrigo y Gabriela
SUNDAY

The Holloways, music - UK
Mahala Rai Banda - Electric Gypsy Land, music, Romania
The Marley Brothers present the 30th Anniversary of Exodus, music - Jamaica
Black Eagles - Acrobatics
Tumble Circus - Aerial
Jay and Manu - Jugglers
Billy Bragg, music - UK
Tinariwen, music (blues), Mali
The Who, music - UK
Chemical Brothers, music (electronica) - UK
Bill Bailey, comedy, UK

favourite show on Sunday: difficult one... I cannot possibly choose

They say mud is good for you

If so, there are at least 200,000 of us with a super smooth skin coming back from the mud bath that the Glastonbury Festival was this year! We were well prepared for it though, and really enjoyed the festival despite the weather.

We arrived there on Thursday just before lunch. It was not raining at that point. We even had blue skies for a bit and although the ground was wet from almost two weeks of non-stop showers, it was clear grass and not flooded. We pitched the tent and went for a walk around. It rained a bit later on but not too badly. But then it rained all weekend. It stopped raining only on Friday night and Saturday night for a few hours, which made it nicer to stand in the crowded field in front of the various stages.

Try to image what can happen when it rains, a lot, and you have nearly 200,000 people walking in a restricted space... To give you an idea, clic on the following links: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tims/622824055/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tims/621896673/in/set-72157600482303155/

Our own photos are not very dramatic as we tried to keep the camera safe and dry!

Here is a view from the stone circle (Kings' Meadow):

One of the Tippi Fields:

These ones are overviews, giving you some idea about the size of the site:

Off to Glastonbury!

I came back from Eisenach, Germany yesterday where I was for work during a couple of days.

We are heading off to Glastonbury tomorrow morning. Our waterproofs and Wellington Boots are already packed.

Full report when we come back!

YES!

Still no Internet at home but on the plus side: WE ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE TWO TICKETS FOR THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL!!!

Hurrah! Many thanks to Andy whose GF had a super-fast connection and helped us a little bit! Just on time before they sold a mere 137,000 tickets in less than 2 hours... Crazy world.

I'm testing my new oven at the moment, so things are not quite cooked the way they should. I will report back as soon as we are back online!

Moving!

Moving is certainly an interesting thing. We got the keys on Friday afternoon and spent our weekend moving stuff from one end of the town to the other. No internet connection in the new house yet so I will not be posting regularly in the next week or so. We needed to make sure we had a working line to book our Glastonbury Festival tickets on 1st April.

Rhubarb Rhubarb was great on Friday. Although unlike in the old days, they now have a limited vegetarian selection. I took some pictures and will post them eventually.

I will post again soon, when we have Internet back at home!