I am finally clean

Phew, what a weekend. I got back from the Glastonbury festival on

Monday which was the culmination of this years holiday (aka Alex's

Magical Mystery Tour).

While it was good to see my folks again and visit some friends that

have emigrated down south it was Glastonbury that made the greatest

impression.I'll start by saying I'll be going again :-)

We where lucky with the weather. We got to site on the Wednesday to

set up the camp for the rest of the party. It was fantastic sunny

weather for the first two days, something we didn't always appreciate

as we carried stuff from the cars. Come Friday (the start of the

festival proper) we had rain and I despaired that the traditional

British weekend weather was going to catch up with us. Luckily the

weather cleared up and we didn't really get any real rain until Sunday

night (just after the final Moby set).

The music was great. Although I'd gone through the massive set list

and made a list of all the bands I wanted to see I never kept to the

schedule. It was far more fun (and relaxing) to wonder around and

listen to stuff as you found it. You get to discover bands you haven't

heard of and enjoy new music that way. I'm certainly going to be

looking up some of the new bands I came across.

It wasn't all new music though. I saw both REM and Moby on the main

Pyramid stage. Needless to say they were great acts, especially

enjoying them in the massive field that the stage sits in.

In fact Glastonbury is more than just a load of bands. There where all

sorts of other things going on from massages in the Healing Fields to

Second Hand Jokes company :-)