Where do we start?

[Nobody Interesting]

The hill thing is good but I preferred it at a less busy place - Strummerville. Quieter and less knobs.

Once you have don that I would let him point at somewhere and then just walk and see what you find, the Tipi fields are fun on Wednesday.

[Twisted Melon]

2 hours ago, pinkmolly226 said:

Maybe just grab a few beers and see where our legs take us? 

Do exactly that. I find it best not to have regimented things to do for newbies. Just bimble about and be surprised what you stumble across

Edited May 19, 2016 by Twisted Melon

[pie_and_a_pint]

39 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Do the whole "don't turn around" walking up the hill thing. Thats amaaaaazazing. 

The thing is, despite the cynicism, the first time you do it, it actually is... 

[bennyhana22]

10 minutes ago, pie_and_a_pint said:

The thing is, despite the cynicism, the first time you do it, it actually is... 

Despite previous form (!), I'm not sure the Nalster was being too sarky...

Of course, I'm a naive, half-full person, so I could be entirely wrong!

Ben

[FuzzyDunlop]

Start where you want,

 

End where you want,

 

Throw the plan out of the window.

 

ENJOY!

[mungo57]

1 hour ago, Padgey said:

Had a couple of nice traditional Thatchers' on the walk between the Pyramid (right of the stage) to the Other stage, think I tried the Heritage and the Big Apple, both very nice but I wouldn't recommend having too many!

my problem is that cider drinks like apple juice, so I agree with the too many comment. I mustve had 5/6 on the Friday last year before 6pm and had to stop drinking for a few hours and have a coffee or 2 to perk myself up a bit or I'd have probably been done for the day

[The Nal]

32 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

Despite previous form (!), I'm not sure the Nalster was being too sarky...

Of course, I'm a naive, half-full person, so I could be entirely wrong!

Ben

Oh no, full on sarky mode from me there. 

30 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Start where you want,

 

End where you want,

 

Throw the plan out of the window.

 

ENJOY!

This. Miss stuff, get lost, end up in the same place you left 10 minutes previously, be late for gigs, get caught in the rain, have a few bad meals, visit horrific toilets, don't bring a jumper and be freezing at night, buy a poncho.

I'd much rather the below happening than being frog marched up hills and told when and where to look.

 

Took my missus for the first time in 2013 and on the Wednesday I didn't tell her we should go anywhere. Let her do it all.

*points at the ribbon tower*

"Whats that? Can we go up there?"

"Yeah lets go".  

She still says its her favourite (non music) day ever at the festival. We walked the entire site. Not in the order I would have suggested. Took a bit longer but thats how you see all the great stuff.

Edited May 19, 2016 by The Nal

[Joshuwarr]

I'd say before getting on it take a trek up to the top of the hill to allow him to take in the view of the whole site. Then go and get trollied at the Brothers bar

[bennyhana22]

1 minute ago, The Nal said:

Oh no, full on sarky mode from me there. 

I'm so rubbish at this...

Ben

[Michaels denim shorts]

47 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Start where you want,

 

End where you want,

 

Throw the plan out of the window.

 

ENJOY!

Well put. Plans go right out of the window after a few sherberts anyway

 

[pinkmolly226]

ok so the plan is..........up the hill, see the amazing view then throw all plans out the window? sounds like a plan!

[evilduck]

We always go up the hill on Wednesday after the tents are set up, have a sit for a while and a few drinks, and then a bimble and see where we end up.

[DeanoL]

The up the hill thing is always fun. Other than that I tend to just them wonder and explain to them what everything is as we go past. And maybe nudge them in another direction if they start walking towards miles of campsite with nothing but the fence beyond it.

[dannygrif]

Last year (our first time at G) me and a friend were waiting for our mates to get back from the supermarket with beer on the Wednesday. We saw the hill with the sign while we were wandering about and decided we should wait 'til they got back before making the climb.

After chatting with said friend over the weekend it dawned on me that I never actually went up that hill. Not once. Didn't even think about it for the entire weekend. Somehow managed to be elsewhere when everyone else went up so it's an absolute must for me this year. 

[Yokel Again]

First stop - Cider Bus. Then a good wander - go and see the dragon and take obligatory pic, try and cover all corners of the site, talking about what's changed, remind yourself of the lay out...

 

.... then back to the cider bus for the evening! 

Edited May 19, 2016 by Yokel Again

[Anderson19]

5th year going now and still not see the bloody dragon.. Somehwere near stone circle isn't it..?

[bennyhana22]

14 minutes ago, Anderson19 said:

5th year going now and still not see the bloody dragon.. Somehwere near stone circle isn't it..?

It is, Anderson. I saw it last year. I think you know how many times I've been...

Went to the secret underground piano bar too...

Ben

[verrymerry]

11 hours ago, pie_and_a_pint said:

The thing is, despite the cynicism, the first time you do it, it actually is... 

This has never gotten old for me, I think I forget every year how massive the site it 

[Anderson19]

9 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

It is, Anderson. I saw it last year. I think you know how many times I've been...

Went to the secret underground piano bar too...

Ben

If it's taken me 5 years to see the Dragon im estimating a good 10 before I get near the underground piano bar!

[Skoo]

I'm trying to recall my first Glastonbury, in 2007. If only I'd known how special it would become to me, I'd have tried a bit hard to remember everything! All I knew was that it was a famous festival, but I just had no idea of the scale and effort involved in it until I was about a day into the thing!

I'm pretty sure we pitched up by Pyramid (as you do), and luckily we knew some people at the festival who had been before. They came to meet us and we started wandering a bit, before one of them suggested we sit on the stone circle hill for a bit - I remember him describing it to me as a cool place with people playing drums and the like, so we headed there and spent some time smoking and people watching.

It was then I started to appreciate the size of the place. No idea what we did next! Just lots of little flashes of memory!

Anyone ever seen that guy with the LED stickman costume that walks around the stone circle at night? He can switch between a smiley stick man face, and a devil face. Absolute genius. He was definitely there in 2007 and seen him a couple of times since. Wondered if he's on these boards.

 

Edited May 19, 2016 by MissStarlight

[stuwilky]

1 hour ago, Anderson19 said:

If it's taken me 5 years to see the Dragon im estimating a good 10 before I get near the underground piano bar!

You'd do the latter by standing at the former......

[arcade fireman]

Accept there's no way you'll even properly experience half of it this time round. Pick out two or three bits or things you'd specifically like to check out at some point, the rest of the time just wander and gawp. 

[pie_and_a_pint]

10 hours ago, verrymerry said:

This has never gotten old for me, I think I forget every year how massive the site it 

With my old knackered knees the site feels bigger every year...  

[pie_and_a_pint]

10 hours ago, Anderson19 said:

5th year going now and still not see the bloody dragon.. Somehwere near stone circle isn't it..?

Yep. It took me five or six years to find it. And only found the Piano Bar in 2013.

Found the tunnel under the railway track in my first year, though - it had lights and a sound installation in those days. And a fat bloke having a wee... 

[bennyhana22]

9 hours ago, stuwilky said:

You'd do the latter by standing at the former......

Awww, come on now, Stu - no clues!!

Ben