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[lilyallenatemyhamster]

I keep hearing how you can spend your time at Glastonbury without even seeing a band and still have a great time!  So just wondering what anyones non musical highlight has been or is when they are at Glastonbury?

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

2008 - Sitting at the stone circle with my best friend talking aimlessly and saying "this is the best place in the world."
2009 - HOWARD F*CKING MARKS!!

[Laura_Babs]

Just wondering around is how I spend a lot of my time. Taking in everything around me. Wondering through the market stalls is fun and just sitting in a sunny field!

[lilyallenatemyhamster]

Last year was my first so I spent most of the time doing what my mates wanted to do, which was great but didnt get to see the other side of Glasto!

[Phil-itfc]

last year was my first, on the wednesday I had a very long journey but eventually meet my friends set up my tent on sat down with a cold(ish) beer around 9pm and could see the sun setting across the tents and stages. At this point it was confirmed glasto is like no other festival.

I meet Micheal Eavis later that night and in a rather drunk state told him how much I loved his festival. he got in his jeep and quickly drove off!

[lilyallenatemyhamster]

Phil-itfc, on Feb 6 2010, 08:30 PM, said:

last year was my first, on the wednesday I had a very long journey but eventually meet my friends set up my tent on sat down with a cold(ish) beer around 9pm and could see the sun setting across the tents and stages. At this point it was confirmed glasto is like no other festival.

I meet Micheal Eavis later that night and in a rather drunk state told him how much I loved his festival. he got in his jeep and quickly drove off!

Think that is great!

[ancient_one]

The Bramble FM roadshow in the theatre fields. Delightful madness.

[fatyeti24]

i love just wondering around, seeing what happens and letting the festival come to me rather than me trying to have 'my own' festival.  you miss so much dashing around the place.

[4AssedMonkey]

It's just such a bizarre yet wonderful place.  Anything goes.  From walking into Trash City for the first time and literally dropping my mouth open to the comedy at the caberet tent to the weirdness in the circus area to just sitting around and laughing my ass off with complete strangers.  No highlights, just a long list of great memories with not as many of them about great live music as you might expect.

[Neville Street]

Magic Punch

[grumpyhack]

Good food from all around the world.

[ukslim]

The cabaret tent used to be good - standup comics etc. - but IMHO has gone downhill.

The circus stuff always blows my mind. Amazing.

The bits of art around the site - wicker men, sand sculptures, wooden mushrooms, much much more.

The wandering theatre types.

Anyone else remember the triptych of coloured translucent panels near the Croissant Neuf, where people danced behind them to make distorted shadows? Amazing.

Climbing the ribbon tower and seeing the panoramic view of the site.

Hanging out at the stone circle.

Food.

Random strangers inviting you into their crazy world. (Some teenagers invited me and a couple of fellow over-30s to their shadow dancing competition - dance like a loon while admiring the long shadow cast by the festival lighting)

Edited by ukslim, 07 February 2010 - 10:55 AM.

[LusciousLucy]

Undertaking the challenge of visiting all the best stalls at the Glstonbury Festival of Food, Cider and Ale

Window shopping in the best mall on the planet.

Enjoying the first taste of Hot & Spicy in a year!

Generally just enjoying walking around the site looking for new stalls, old stalls and changes to previous years.

Guessing what colours the flags in the Jazz Field are this year and heading over to take your first look.

Bimbling around the circus and cabaret fields.

Discussing the mud and all its previous incarnations and what determines 'bad weather' with stall holders who have been to as many Glasto's as myself.

Pratting about in the craft fields.

Doing f**k all except chatting with fellow campmates at Camp Triangle.

Efest Meets at the Cider Bus.

Regretting not eating properly before indulging in consuming cider at the Bus and Glastoenteritis™ ensuing before you've finished the 2nd pint!  

Remedy this by eating first Oggie in a year and then head back to bus to carry on partying at the meet!

[IamChappu]

Sitting there (anywhere will do!) with a pint or two of cider & watching the world go by is a favourite way of mine to spend the time  

Specific non-music highlight though has to be the 1 man Star Wars show a few years back!  Is still one of the funniest things I have ever ever seen.  

[guypjfreak]

seeing the same great people that you only get to see once a year top old son doesnt get better than that  

[nominaomi]

Just bimbling aimlessly around the most wonderous place in the world. There's something to catch your eye at every turn.

Watching the skateboarders on that big ramp think it was near green peace maybe?

Sitting for hours at camp triangle drinking, talking nonsense just generally relaxing.

Meeting new people and experiencing new things.

Shangri La.

[glastoman417]

All good suggestions.  

It's hard to pinpoint something specific, but I do like wandering around, doing stuff I wouldn't normally do, seeing bands I wouldn't normally see, talking to people I probably wouldn't normally talk to, etc etc.  

I think the best bet though is not to plan, or rather do what I do - plan in meticulous detail (it passes the time before the festival!) then throw the plan out of the window and do whatever you fancy when you get there.  

Wherever you wander, it's unlikely you won't find anything interesting going on.

[Laura_Babs]

glastoman417, on Feb 7 2010, 02:38 PM, said:

All good suggestions.  

It's hard to pinpoint something specific, but I do like wandering around, doing stuff I wouldn't normally do, seeing bands I wouldn't normally see, talking to people I probably wouldn't normally talk to, etc etc.  

I think the best bet though is not to plan, or rather do what I do - plan in meticulous detail (it passes the time before the festival!) then throw the plan out of the window and do whatever you fancy when you get there.  

Wherever you wander, it's unlikely you won't find anything interesting going on.

I love your approach to planning Glastoman!  

[TheBoyInTheBubble]

Being told by some old hippie woman that I should marry the girl I was talking to because she could see the real love there.  I'd only just started talking to the girl after she moaned at me for being polite by letting her pass ahead of me "just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I should be treated any differently".  She was married so it was another to add to the long list of failed proposals.

[cowmadiddy]

Going to the information point last year (my first) and asking where the nearest bar was, I never did get an answer, but was thoroughly entertained!.