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[worthyraver]

I have found over the past few years that he quality of your neighbours has a huge effect on your camping and by extension Glastonbury experience, of course this is one of the pieces of the Glastonbury jigsaw that you have very little control over, which is annoying as I am a bit of a control freak will regards to all things Glastonbury.

For the last three years my experiences have been thus:

2007: Never saw them, although a mate of mine who I did not know was going was camped two tents away, very bizarre.
2008: Fantastic crew of mad students very amusing, we met up with them last year will do the same this year.
2009: Saw little of them, but when we did not very nice, broke one of our chairs, also people other side had taped off their area, k runts: nuff said.

As I mentioned above who you get is of course luck, I am hoping for campers near me who will join me in a "breakfast cider" at about 06.00AM when I am just getting back to the tent.

Thinking about it I did round up some "breakfast cider" friends on the Friday morning, last year, but then it started to rain and broke up the party.

[Katster]

The best neighbours I EVER had were a souse couple who took my 'stuff' inside when I passed out on the Wednesday night and gave it me back when I returned later on in the day and we all joked about how I'd probably slagged them off for being scousers and robbing my stuff when in fact the opposite was true on all accounts.

They really were lovely. We only ever saw them in passing though because I'm not one for being at the tents much and neither were they.

We are friends on 'myspace' and kept in touch up until just before last year. We were going to camp near them again if possible but it just didn't work out.

A wonderful couple they were  

[ivan]

Best neighbours we ever had was back in 02 or 03

A load of young scousers turned up on the Thursday , all with brand new camping gear.

All they did for 3 days was sit in or around the tent doing Stella and speed.

I got quite friendly with one of them , cos they had me in stitches , I would lay in my tent crying
with laughter.  One night one of em knocked over his mates lager and all I coul hear for 4 hours
was

"It treat you like a brudder and you do this to me ! "

Our other neighbours gave em a wide berth , but on the Sat morining when they decied to leave
they left everything for me , including a 12 man tent.

We called it "Scouser Tent " - and it is our smoking and chilling tent

We are onto Scouser Tent 2 now , and it will be in Big Ground in June !

[mandypants]

Didn't see a great deal of our neighbours last year, but they seemed cool enough.  We had glowstick wars with one group, which was a laugh.  There were some guys from New Zealand who were cute and friendly, and some really mouthy scousers who we laughed at rather than with.  One of them kept saying stuff as they walked past that she was going to have been a dancer for Michael Jackson before he died.  Yeah yeah....  

[Chocky]

Cider breakfast? Pah
You wanna try that, then following it up with some absinthe mouthwash and some amyl-nitrate aroma therapy.

[20/20]

Good neighbours is priority number 1 at Glasto, the best way to avoid trouble/thieves. Luckily a lot of people (60% I have heard and that probably seems about right) camp in the same place year after year. The first two years I went we camped in random places and didn't really 'gel' with our neighbours but in 2007 we camped near two South African girls in Oxylers. They were a lovely sweet couple and we were surprised to see them back again in 2009 at the same spot. We missed 2008 to go to Exit in Serbia (couldn't face the mud after 2007).

That said...good neighbours don't just 'happen'. You get out what you put in. A smiling face, some friendly banter, a shared doobie, and little help here and there make for a very friendly base. Here's hoping 2010 is the same.

[worthyraver]

Chocky, on Mar 22 2010, 12:08 PM, said:

Cider breakfast? Pah
You wanna try that, then following it up with some absinthe mouthwash and some amyl-nitrate aroma therapy.

Sounds great I will see you at 06.00AM, I will bring the cider and even some skittle vodka.

[Phil-itfc]

all the festivals I've been to I have only spoken to the neighbours regually on one occasion. But normally I go to festies with a large crowd so I think sometimes a large group you neglect your neighbours.

this year at Glasto its just me and my mate so making friends will be a priority. I think We'll pitch up early and sit outside the tent with a few cans and welcome our neighbours with a drink!

[musiclove123]

Most years I have never seen the neighbours. When I have spoken to them they are always lovely people.  Twice though (2005 and 2007) we have had somebody plonk their tent slap bang in the middle of our groups of tents where our chairs were. C'est la vie I know but one person put their tent on top of our gone out fire. Whoops- it was dark though. In 2007 it was raining hard when a couple came trying to put up their tent next to us. So we helped them out and let them use our gazibo as a social area from them on

Edited by musiclove123, 22 March 2010 - 12:43 PM.

[drewsstrat]

Have to agree, feeling safe in your surroundings and having good neighbours who have
some banter makes your glastonbury sometimes.

As for breakfast cider... The ciderbus's warm cinemon spiced cider is
the stuff I like.. Perhaps nocturnally though

[20/20]

I must confess I am usually quite delicate by 6am but it is great when the neighbours r up early with the kettle on ready for my return home...white, no sugar ta

[4AssedMonkey]

First thing we did once pitched was introduce ourselves to our neighbours, pass out some cans of beer and all were very friendly.  The following morning we woke up and in the gaps between tents we had some new neighbours so had to do the same again.  All good fun.  Didn't spend much time at the tents after that to be honest but did bump into a couple of them whilst coming round of a morning.