I messed up! Learn from my mistake.

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

The property lockups close at 12 on the Monday.  We did not realise this.

The missus had to trek all the way up by the farmhouse to get our car key.

[theciderviking]

1 hour ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

The property lockups close at 12 on the Monday.  We did not realise this.

The missus had to trek all the way up by the farmhouse to get our car key.

This. Absolutely, 100% this.

I missed them by about 10 minutes…cue a 2 hour mad dash following the van around site with the mother of all hangovers trying to retrieve my wallet and keys. Missed last coach so had to buy a horrendously expensive train ticket. Caught up in 4+ hours of queues for the shuttle and at Castle Cary, missed last connection from London so had to buy a coach ticket back to Liverpool. 🤦‍♂️

Woke up in my tent at about 12:10 Monday, finally arrived into Liverpool at 06:30 Tuesday morning…and I was at my desk by 08:00 😭😭😭

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 hour ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

The property lockups close at 12 on the Monday.  We did not realise this.

The missus had to trek all the way up by the farmhouse to get our car key.

Good tip. Thanks.

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, theciderviking said:

This. Absolutely, 100% this.

I missed them by about 10 minutes…cue a 2 hour mad dash following the van around site with the mother of all hangovers trying to retrieve my wallet and keys. Missed last coach so had to buy a horrendously expensive train ticket. Caught up in 4+ hours of queues for the shuttle and at Castle Cary, missed last connection from London so had to buy a coach ticket back to Liverpool. 🤦‍♂️

Woke up in my tent at about 12:10 Monday, finally arrived into Liverpool at 06:30 Tuesday morning…and I was at my desk by 08:00 😭😭😭

 

Ouch, that does sound grim. 

[clarkete]

A tiny subset

1. A tent with poles that could hold 5 to 6 people - brilliant in wet years as you could stand and change in the porch. It also had pretty much a spare room, but it was heavy, needed big space and took a while (and two people) to put up. 

2. Thinking I'd be clever I bought a folding trolley with solid wheels. Of course nearly twenty years on we've all read plenty about them in threads here. Tbh it did survive many festivals and it's still here, but was only great for dry ground and those metal tracks. Beyond that I needed the help of taller kinder friends. 

3. Wearing a shirt that said "yes please" and telling a friend "I never say no to anything at Glastonbury".  Cue response "poppers?" and it all went downhill that year (or up depending on perspective). 

4. Drinking as much of that strawberry cider as possible and then having a nap amongst the pyramid crowd. It was a warm day and I woke a while later face down thinking "hmm I wonder if that's sweat or if I've pished myself?" 

5.  Very rainy day in the early to mid 2000s. Nobody wants to go anywhere, we're in our tents, what do we do given what supplies we have?  "vodka day!". Multiple cheap and neat bottles emerge.   Just no... 

Edited June 10, 2023 by clarkete

[BBC7BBCHEAVEN]

On 6/28/2020 at 11:17 AM, Crazyfool01 said:

 

Don't want to take away from the sage advice, but holy sh*t that outfit is incredible

[Crazyfool01]

9 minutes ago, BBC7BBCHEAVEN said:

Don't want to take away from the sage advice, but holy sh*t that outfit is incredible

Cheers .. took quite a few hours work and quite a few fabric pens 🙂 but quite therapeutic doing it 🙂 

[clarkete]

30 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Cheers .. took quite a few hours work and quite a few fabric pens 🙂 but quite therapeutic doing it 🙂 

Wow, never imagined it was man made

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

2 hours ago, theciderviking said:

This. Absolutely, 100% this.

I missed them by about 10 minutes…cue a 2 hour mad dash following the van around site with the mother of all hangovers trying to retrieve my wallet and keys. Missed last coach so had to buy a horrendously expensive train ticket. Caught up in 4+ hours of queues for the shuttle and at Castle Cary, missed last connection from London so had to buy a coach ticket back to Liverpool. 🤦‍♂️

Woke up in my tent at about 12:10 Monday, finally arrived into Liverpool at 06:30 Tuesday morning…and I was at my desk by 08:00 😭😭😭

 

Wow.  Those consequences!

Ours was just a 2 hour delay getting to the car.  Yours was another level!

[oakdown]

In 2016 I booked an 11:30am bus from Bristol back to Glasgow and then panicked about getting off site in time with the mud. Ended up leaving before Coldplay to get the shuttle back into the city (which ended up taking no time at all somehow) and then realised that Temple Meads wasn't open overnight so I had nowhere to go. Had to convince the nice receptionist in the Holiday Inn up the road to let me sit in the lobby with all my muddy gear until 7am and got on the bus grumpy, smelly and having not slept for a 10+ hour journey home.

Also got food poisoning that year from a dodgy burrito and spent all of the headliner I really wanted to see throwing up, before being escorted by some nice stewards to the medical tent.

So yeah, don't do either of those things.

Edited June 10, 2023 by oakdown

[BBC7BBCHEAVEN]

These stories are reaffirming my "leave Sunday night" attitude.

I don't bother drinking on a Sunday anymore, or at most two or three beers early doors. Pack everything ready to leave, and set off after the band's.

We had an absolute nightmare experience, whatever year Mumford and sons played and they completely mismanaged the car parks leading to about an 8hour wait to get out of the site, vowed to never risk it again

[philipsteak]

8 minutes ago, BBC7BBCHEAVEN said:

 

We had an absolute nightmare experience, whatever year Mumford and sons played 

 

No phil, you're better than that...

[BBC7BBCHEAVEN]

Don't worry we weren't in attendance I only remember it as that year because a mate flew in just for the Sunday to see them, absolutely ridiculous 😄

[CaledonianGonzo]

f**king hell.

Reminds me of the guy on here who had a weekend ticket and drove back and forth from the festival to London overnight on the Saturday specifically to see Kasabian.

[Cream Soda]

5 hours ago, BBC7BBCHEAVEN said:

These stories are reaffirming my "leave Sunday night" attitude.

I don't bother drinking on a Sunday anymore, or at most two or three beers early doors. Pack everything ready to leave, and set off after the band's.

We had an absolute nightmare experience, whatever year Mumford and sons played and they completely mismanaged the car parks leading to about an 8hour wait to get out of the site, vowed to never risk it again

Was that while trying to leave on the Sunday night? We tried to do that on Sunday after Coldplay during the mudbath of 2016. We were stuck in the car park for 9 hours, don't know if I'd ever dare attempt it again.

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Cream Soda said:

Was that while trying to leave on the Sunday night? We tried to do that on Sunday after Coldplay during the mudbath of 2016. We were stuck in the car park for 9 hours, don't know if I'd ever dare attempt it again.

mate spent most of the day  sunday moving his car to a place he could drive straight out ..... took him 4 hours after headliner  , monday we left at 11 and were out the carpark within an hour 

Edited June 10, 2023 by Crazyfool01

[BBC7BBCHEAVEN]

1 hour ago, Cream Soda said:

Was that while trying to leave on the Sunday night? We tried to do that on Sunday after Coldplay during the mudbath of 2016. We were stuck in the car park for 9 hours, don't know if I'd ever dare attempt it again.

2013 and trying to leave Monday morning. We didn't get back to the north east until near midnight

[Cream Soda]

1 hour ago, BBC7BBCHEAVEN said:

2013 and trying to leave Monday morning. We didn't get back to the north east until near midnight

So you darnt leave Monday and i darnt leave Sunday...just goes to show anything can happen!

[Gwish123]

No roll overs, 3 hours sleep minimum to separate the days 

[Ryan1984]

Anyone suggested making sure you set up your tent and air it out (if you have some outdoor space) a week or two before the festival - so, today’s the day really. Makes it feel fresher and gives you a refresher on how to put it up/a chance to check for any rips or leaks etc.

[EFC1996]

Last year was my 5th Glasto, and the only year I didn’t break my walking shoes in. The pain was unbearable to the point I walked 50 minutes back to my tent with no shoes on.

[LMK]

2 hours ago, EFC1996 said:

Last year was my 5th Glasto, and the only year I didn’t break my walking shoes in. The pain was unbearable to the point I walked 50 minutes back to my tent with no shoes on.

Speaking of appropriate footwear… Glasto in 2011, I only brought wellies because of the mud I didn’t think I’d need anything else. Cue 32 degrees or so baking heat on Sunday, wellies were practically melting on my legs watching Paul Simon. Had to take them off every time I stopped to watch an act. 

[Watergirl]

Don't stay in a spot if talkers near you are interfering with you enjoying the music.  Give it one or two songs, as many people have short attention spans and may well move on, but otherwise you move!

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

19 minutes ago, Watergirl said:

Don't stay in a spot if talkers near you are interfering with you enjoying the music.  Give it one or two songs, as many people have short attention spans and may well move on, but otherwise you move!

Very passively aggressively say loudly to your friend how it's hard to enjoy the band with talkers next to you.

They will definitely get the hint and behave themselves.