Ollie7490

Thanks for posting. I missed that. Landed in London on Tuesday. I seem to have got off lightly with regard to jetlag. I've definitely had it worse doing this trip in the past.

I'm in the Far North of NZ. I contacted Auckland Airport yesterday and they put me on to a place called Rako Science which charges the prices mentioned. Though just found a list of places that offer antigen testing for a fraction of the price. I will pop in and sus it out once I've recovered. Cheers for your help Mr Duck

Actually scrap that. I've just found a list of cheaper places. Things may be looking up.

The testing stations I've seen here are $175 for a next day result. Problem is I fly on a Monday and they seem to be closed on Sunday. The test needs to be within 1 day of travel so I'd have to pay for a test the day I fly and use the urgent 6hr service. $325 😳

Thanks for this. This is clearer info than I've found anywhere else online. So when you say get an antigen test the day before. Presumably this needs to be accompanied by a letter from a health professional stating it is legit?

Yeah I think so too. Don't feel too bad as it is.

Struggling to get my head around the covid policies. I tested positive yesterday. Now I need to recover and I think I need to get a letter of recovery from my GP 10 days before I fly from NZ (13th June) in order to transit through the US. That or provide a negative test prior to flying. Bit of a minefield.

This all sounds very familiar. Arrive in London from NZ on 15/6. May try see Sharon Van Etten at Brixton. Go to Glastonbury. Quick trip to Spain to see my Nan. Back in London in time for LCD on the Saturday. Then the long slog home a couple of days later.

Whether true or not, I enjoyed reading these tales. Thanks for posting. Heading back to the UK this year for a holiday and this will be my first Glastonbury since 2017. Reading these stories it's the anticipation and excitement of knowing what goes on behind the fence that's getting me excited and keeping me reading. Also it is reminding me of my teenage years and early 20's. Bestival 2011 was the first festival I blagged my way in to although the blag was organised by my friends, and although risky was a lot simpler than scampering through woods and climbing fences. One of the boys got hold of an email address from someone at the festival. He created a new email address pretending to be someone called Simon (I think from memory) from The Cure's record label. He emailed and basically said he wanted to send a few interns down to the festival for whatever reason. We arrived there, stepped up to the ticket office, said who we were and were given festival wristbands with camping in separate camping area. No questions asked. Ended up camping next to Maya Jane Coles and a couple of her mates. One or two of the boys tried this again the following year and we're caught out. They got a bit of a grilling but were let go and ended up buying spare tickets to join the rest of us who had paid for 2012. We also did similar for the first Wilderness festival. I think about 10 of us got in without paying a penny.