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[Buddhafish]

worthyraver, on Mar 22 2010, 10:35 AM, said:

You must have been first though the gates for all those years, Williams is usually full by about 10.30AM.  Good spot though, I have previously been tempted.

You can get a spot up til about 2pm if you push through the crowded bit at the bottom. We've been turned away by stewards before, only to walk around the long way and still find plenty of room. The views from up there are great too.  

[ivan]

Camper Van Fields ?

First two years I went to Glasto !

[tonyblair]

the worst place I camped was on a roundabout somewhere near Slough the first year I went. I was hitch-hiking and didn't get very far the first day

but I don't s'pose that counts..?  

[disasterplan]

Bottom of Pennards - where it's like the campsite has a plughole down which water is draining.

[Chocky]

disasterplan, on Mar 22 2010, 11:28 AM, said:

Bottom of Pennards - where it's like the campsite has a plughole down which water is draining.

Or not as the case usually is

[Midnight Man]

TheBoyInTheBubble, on Mar 22 2010, 12:20 AM, said:

For me it was last year's spot in Wicket right by the road.  Of a night it just seemed to get further and further away as the festival went on, generally it was pretty sedate and the toilets were an absolute hike - not good when the big fabric conditioner bottle has been forgotten.

That said the people camped next to us were amongst the nicest I've met at Glasto.  And the two ladies from Dorset who set up with us and left on Saturday morning were unforgettable.

Agree with all that. Camped there last year because there was space, and spent the rest of the festival regretting it, especially walking back from the Park late one night, but really nice people around.
Had previously camped in the Home Ground which was fine, except for the year someone left a massive, perfectly-formed toilet sausage nearby our tent one night. Not the first thing you want to encounter when worse for wear in the morning.

[ukslim]

There are three places not to camp, innit:

1. Where water collects - either a dip at the bottom of a hill, or (in a wet year) any part of a hillside that's likely to form a gulley.
2. Too close to the toilets
3. Too close to a busy path - in muddy years I've seen tents wrecked by muddy trampling.

[ivan]

Next to a load of U2 fans !