If you only do one thing at Glastonbury make sure you...

[vardyvarvar]

Make sure you are taking on enough water. There’s refill options literally everywhere. If you can drink a water in between each alcoholic bev you’ll feel much better (but still not great) the following morning.

[marathonsteve]

Take time out and have a nap in the sunshine or the shade.

[Ayrshire Chris]

11 hours ago, Chubby Dude in a Tiny Car said:

wise words indeed - but has anyone EVER actually managed this?

Managed not to get so off my face that I ruin the next day?

Ah, step up MrsC. The love of my life, soulmate and glasto companion is tee total and doesn't smoke. She ensures  we get back to the correct tent and monitors my alcohol consumption. Of course in return for this the deal is that she decides 50% of the bands we see and areas we visit. This has meant seeing Coldplay , which if truth be known I actually really enjoyed, and this year making a complete arse of myself in glasto Latino .  God knows what she has in store for me this year! 

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Managed not to get so off my face that I ruin the next day?

Ah, step up MrsC. The love of my life, soulmate and glasto companion is tee total and doesn't smoke. She ensures  we get back to the correct tent and monitors my alcohol consumption. Of course in return for this the deal is that she decides 50% of the bands we see and areas we visit. This has meant seeing Coldplay , which if truth be known I actually really enjoyed, and this year making a complete arse of myself in glasto Latino .  God knows what she has in store for me this year! 

ive been plucking up Glasto latino courage since 2003  not done it yet 

[Ayrshire Chris]

5 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

ive been plucking up Glasto latino courage since 2003  not done it yet 

I can’t get the image of you in a Carmen Miranda fruit covered pyramid hat doing the samba out of my head. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

I can’t get the image of you in a Carmen Miranda fruit covered pyramid hat doing the samba out of my head. 

try too please ... its going to cause issues ..... fruit covered ?  I had to google carmen miranda ... but think ive heard of this Coldplay band people talk of occasionally 

[ogriff]

18 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

ive been plucking up Glasto latino courage since 2003  not done it yet 

I had a lovely snooze in Glasto Latino this year. Nice place to get out of the heat!

[Gilb]

This years efforts...

went down a treat!

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, ogriff said:

I had a lovely snooze in Glasto Latino this year. Nice place to get out of the heat!

now that seems much better ...and Festival medical would much prefer it too  

[Ayrshire Chris]

17 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

try too please ... its going to cause issues ..... fruit covered ?  I had to google carmen miranda ... but think ive heard of this Coldplay band people talk of occasionally 

She was a singer and Latin dancer who specialised in fruit based millinery. She had a head full of fruit, the other lot had a head full of dreams 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

She was a singer and Latin dancer who specialised in fruit based millinery. She had a head full of fruit, the other lot had a head full of dreams 

oh dear ... a headful of fruity dreams !!   

[ooh-ahh]

8 hours ago, Quark said:

 

Yep I did that one as well, took them both along to the meet.  The refreshers one is more noticeably vodka-based, so it didn't go as quickly.  The werthers one is like drinking a milkshake and it was absolutely lethal

This sounds rather appealing. How many Werthers would you recommend to be put in a bottle?

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, ooh-ahh said:

This sounds rather appealing. How many Werthers would you recommend to be put in a bottle?

Hmm. If I remember right I think it was about a bag and a half to a 70cl bottle. Again, do it it in stages until you get a flavour you like.

Bonus is no need to filter as they completely dissolve, so  no sediment like you get with the Refreshers.

[Gilb]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

Hmm. If I remember right I think it was about a bag and a half to a 70cl bottle. Again, do it it in stages until you get a flavour you like.

Bonus is no need to filter as they completely dissolve, so  no sediment like you get with the Refreshers.

I used 1 bag and it was just right ?

[ooh-ahh]

5 minutes ago, Quark said:

Hmm. If I remember right I think it was about a bag and a half to a 70cl bottle. Again, do it it in stages until you get a flavour you like.

Bonus is no need to filter as they completely dissolve, so  no sediment like you get with the Refreshers.

Excellent. Shall commence experimenting tomorrow. 

[Cooter]

Has anyone mentioned the steam power little boats stall yet? I've found myself here a few times thinking about stuff and staring at the little boats and the beautiful views over the festival.

[Quark]

12 minutes ago, Gilb said:

I used 1 bag and it was just right ?

Sweet tooth for me

[noplacelikehome]

On 10/14/2019 at 8:20 PM, Quark said:

Yeah be prepared to have booze forced on you. I think it was @noplacelikehome that brought some friends to meet "the people off the internet" and I ended up feeding them werthers vodka, refreshers vodka and my rum & ginger. I think I gave them a choice

"Is it normal to take drinks from strangers at festivals?"

"Yes it is. Now shush and drink from this unmarked bottle in my rucksack"

It was my friends! They loved it ? You also tried some of my cherry Bakewell and said it had" a touch of the benylin"  about it - wont be using that cheap amaretto again ? must try harder next year 

[Quark]

9 minutes ago, noplacelikehome said:

It was my friends! They loved it ? You also tried some of my cherry Bakewell and said it had" a touch of the benylin"  about it - wont be using that cheap amaretto again ? must try harder next year 

Ah good stuff, hope they enjoyed the rest of the fest. Was their first Glasto right? Was lovely how genuinely surprised they seemed to be that everyone's so free with sharing their booze, always nice seeing through a newbie's eyes

[duke88]

2 hours ago, vardyvarvar said:

Make sure you are taking on enough water. There’s refill options literally everywhere. If you can drink a water in between each alcoholic bev you’ll feel much better (but still not great) the following morning.

Yes. Don’t end up in the medical centre on Saturday morning like I did this year after spending the night spewing because your body is so dehydrated!

[noplacelikehome]

They did ... and are back next year, they will be handing round flavoured vodka like old hands next time 

[priest17]

Keep an eye on there floor, there's change everywhere. 

[K2SO]

I may be wrong on the exact location, but I think it is opposite the Bread + Roses Bar, on the way to The Other Stage, from the Pyramid. There's a stall there that sells slush puppies for like £2 each for a big cup. On a hot day, go for one of them. Not only are they cold and refreshing, but cheap and the staff were really nice! Honestly my favourite discovery of 2019's festival.

[MrZigster]

16 hours ago, Padgey said:

Do a few trips to and from the car to get all your stuff to camp, much better than trying to carry everything and stopping every 10-20 metres.

But. Possibly. No.

Last couple of times I went by car I got (kind of made to) park miles away from even the nearest entrance gate, let alone near where I wanted to be.

Ruined me physically doing just two trips in that heat those times. Exhausted before it started. Then repeat in reverse on Monday? Sod that again. I'm getting on. My bones are old and my knees are knackered etc...

Travel light and then buy what it used to be necessary to bring that was heavy from the Co-Op (Personally, that's at least a 3ltr bottle of mixer, a big box of individual Capri-Suns, a six pack of Lucozade Orange, etc., that I don't have to do two trips for any more). Possibly a game changer that Co -Op.

If you only do one thing at Glastonbury?

Travel light

(Disclaimer: I will still probably end up bringing too much).

 

[a6l6e6x]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

Hmm. If I remember right I think it was about a bag and a half to a 70cl bottle. Again, do it it in stages until you get a flavour you like.

Bonus is no need to filter as they completely dissolve, so  no sediment like you get with the Refreshers.

Last year I ran out of mixer so thought it would be a brilliant idea to put a couple of raspberry laces from a sweets stall in 50cl of vodka. It did not dissolve, it went quite lumpy and it tasted much worse than straight vodka. So if you do one thing at glasto, don't do that