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FIRST TIME AT DOWNLOAD

Guest tracy rutherford

By Guest tracy rutherford
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cornucopia Newbie

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Hi Tracy,

Last year the beer price was ÂŁ3.50 a beer token but I think it's going to be more like ÂŁ4.50 this year (so I've heard) Food is quite pricey too but there is a muller rice bus giving out free rice pots which is cool! I can't comment on the campsite because I stay at a hotel in Derby but the craic s supposed to be second to non - if anyone can sneak me in let me know lol!!

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Hiya Tracy, it was my first year at Download in 2009 and I have to say that it is the friendliest festival that I have ever been to. I don't know if you have been to other festivals before, but I think you will find that beer is around the same price bracket and in my experience, the food is a little bit cheaper.

I think I spent ÂŁ200 last year. But a good chunk of that was on beer on the wednesday night!! The bar in the village sold 4 cans of lager/cider for ÂŁ5. I got ridiculously drunk!

The other thing that you need to be aware of is that the walk from the car park to the campsite is crazy long. Seriously, if you take too much stuff you will not enjoy it at all!! My advice would be to take a rucksack with your sleeping stuff and clothes and then a trolley for your beer and food type things. Any more than that and you will struggle (unless you are a finely tuned athlete!)

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trolley, trolley, trolley.

and not some shitey conversion of your granma's shopping basket thing. a good, large wheeled sack barrow or similar with really good strapping. it can be anything up to a mile from the carpark to the gates, and the same again from the gate to where you finally get camped. and its over rough, rutted, dusty ground. its horrible - do not underestimate this.

a case of beer in the carpark, weighs the same as 3 cases by the time you reach camp.

other than that - once you are in, beki is right - its one of the friendliest crowds there is.

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Cheers guys, not too sure about trolley though as we getting train down from edinburgh then getting 1 of the shuttle buses out to the festival site, any ideas where the bus drop off point is in connection to the entrance to the site? and if they allow you to take trolley like items on them?? :P
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That's dreadful. I am in shock. You, coming from Yorkshire, I could understand. But terrible show from the Makems!! I say this as a midlander coming from a Makem family and being recently outdone by a 10 year old from East Herrington! It started with "lets go paddle in the sea". I came out screaming within 2 seconds. He actually called me a "southern pansy!" How rude!
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