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[BlueDaze]

5 hours ago, Skip997 said:

Why on earth would you "eat out" if you have a CV.

Surely one of the benefits is being able to easily make your own meals

 

5 hours ago, gazzared said:

once iam out for the day (around 10/11am) I never go back to my campervan to cook , it would take too much time out of my day and I think most others are the same.

I'm with @gazzaredhere... you leave in the morning and thats you out for the day..

Granted you have the benefit of making your own breakfast in the morning and we normally have a chilli on Tuesday evening and a BBQ on Wednesday lunchtime before heading down late afternoon / early evening..

 

[gooner1990]

9 hours ago, BlueDaze said:

 

I'm with @gazzaredhere... you leave in the morning and thats you out for the day..

Granted you have the benefit of making your own breakfast in the morning and we normally have a chilli on Tuesday evening and a BBQ on Wednesday lunchtime before heading down late afternoon / early evening..

 

Most people who I know who've done CV in the past have done it because they don't want to do standard camping (and prefer comfy bed, and a bit of quiet at night etc) rather than immerse themselves in a CV lifestyle!

[Stokesy10]

15 hours ago, gazzared said:

once iam out for the day (around 10/11am) I never go back to my campervan to cook , it would take too much time out of my day and I think most others are the same.

Exactly. Why would you keep walking back and forth more than once between the CV and all over the festival just to cook.

[Drinky]

37 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

Exactly. Why would you keep walking back and forth more than once between the CV and all over the festival just to cook.

Money

[Stokesy10]

2 hours ago, Drinky said:

Money

Fair comment 

[Avalon_Fields]

I’ve never cooked a meal in my CV at Glastonbury. There’s no chance I’m wasting hours tracking back and forth just for some food. I have breakfast, and usually a late snack on returning. In fact I can’t remember ever returning to the CV for any purpose during the day. 

[Poo]

I did 12 years of spending all of the Wednesday lumping kit on sack trucks. So bought a CV which was the most expensive set of sack trucks ever. Obviously put it to good use throughout the year but like others, once i leave the Cv in the morning then i aint going back until its time to sleep. We have a few friends who camp in tents, so leave booze in their tent so we dont need to pop back. 

[gazzared]

Sounds like @Skip997 has a prime location..... it won't be long before the festival try to cash in on said location and ship you out beyond the great wall.... They'll call the new VIP Hospitality area- West Holts Blissful Retreat 

[BlueDaze]

1 hour ago, Avalon_Fields said:

I’ve never cooked a meal in my CV at Glastonbury. There’s no chance I’m wasting hours tracking back and forth just for some food. I have breakfast, and usually a late snack on returning. In fact I can’t remember ever returning to the CV for any purpose during the day. 

don't you turn up on the Tuesday.? Prime day for sitting around the van eating and drinking with family & friends..

Then once most of the masses have gained entry on Wednesday head down in the afternoon for a mooch / efests meet-up.?

Surely you must have a bacon sarnie for breakfast at some point??

[BlueDaze]

4 hours ago, gooner1990 said:

Most people who I know who've done CV in the past have done it because they don't want to do standard camping (and prefer comfy bed, and a bit of quiet at night etc) rather than immerse themselves in a CV lifestyle!

I think Tuesday is a bit of immersing action....  Getting set-up (possibly with friends/family that you have met on the way down), cracking the first beers, meeting the neighbours, a nice bit of dinner, sitting of the HoD for a view of the site...

I love Tuesday in the CV fields.!

[Skip997]

47 minutes ago, gazzared said:

Sounds like @Skip997 has a prime location..... it won't be long before the festival try to cash in on said location and ship you out beyond the great wall.... They'll call the new VIP Hospitality area- West Holts Blissful Retreat 

It will eventually happen, but not while Michael is still alive.

Soon as they "ship me beyond the great wall" I'm done.

[Avalon_Fields]

4 hours ago, BlueDaze said:

don't you turn up on the Tuesday.? Prime day for sitting around the van eating and drinking with family & friends..

Then once most of the masses have gained entry on Wednesday head down in the afternoon for a mooch / efests meet-up.?

Surely you must have a bacon sarnie for breakfast at some point??

Yes, you’re exactly right, our gang all bring food and drink for a Tuesday party. Strictly speaking I was being truthful as I have never cooked anything myself, but I was really meaning during the festival proper Wednesday to Sunday. Tuesday has been a fantastic part of the festival for me for many years now. 
 

Part of the festival experience for me is revisiting my favourite food places on site. I’d rather do that and save myself 1 1/2 hours going back to the van to eat. It’s one more band I can see!

[gooner1990]

15 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Yes, you’re exactly right, our gang all bring food and drink for a Tuesday party. Strictly speaking I was being truthful as I have never cooked anything myself, but I was really meaning during the festival proper Wednesday to Sunday. Tuesday has been a fantastic part of the festival for me for many years now. 
 

Part of the festival experience for me is revisiting my favourite food places on site. I’d rather do that and save myself 1 1/2 hours going back to the van to eat. It’s one more band I can see!

It also depends on your age/point in life/disposable income i guess. When I was a student or when I was being lower paid I would take food with me to festivals (tinned stuff or pot noodles with a camping stove) and perhaps only allow myself a portion of chips or something small from the vendors. 

Now I have a better paid job I just take small snacks for the tent (crisps, breakfast bars etc) then eat properly once I'm out and about, usually once or twice a day but that can add up fast....probably around £100 across the weekend. 

[Stokesy10]

18 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Yes, you’re exactly right, our gang all bring food and drink for a Tuesday party. Strictly speaking I was being truthful as I have never cooked anything myself, but I was really meaning during the festival proper Wednesday to Sunday. Tuesday has been a fantastic part of the festival for me for many years now. 
 

Part of the festival experience for me is revisiting my favourite food places on site. I’d rather do that and save myself 1 1/2 hours going back to the van to eat. It’s one more band I can see!

What's the atmosphere like and the etiquete in the CV fields regarding chilling outside your campervan with camping chairs etc., I've no idea what to expect (if successful of course!). 

I absolutely love the camping aspect of Glasto and chatting to neighbours across the week, is it similar or are there any unwritten rules I should know about, perhaps late at night?

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

What's the atmosphere like and the etiquete in the CV fields regarding chilling outside your campervan with camping chairs etc., I've no idea what to expect (if successful of course!). 

I absolutely love the camping aspect of Glasto and chatting to neighbours across the week, is it similar or are there any unwritten rules I should know about, perhaps late at night?

When you park, they'll ask you what space you need or if you have an awning so people end up with a socialising space for awning/chairs/bbq outside their van, before the next one is parked on your passenger side.   Same rules as camping apply - meet your neighbours and see what they are like - if they have kids be a bit considerate with music and stuff but it's still very social in the camper fields. 

[DeanoL]

3 hours ago, gooner1990 said:

It also depends on your age/point in life/disposable income i guess. When I was a student or when I was being lower paid I would take food with me to festivals (tinned stuff or pot noodles with a camping stove) and perhaps only allow myself a portion of chips or something small from the vendors. 

Now I have a better paid job I just take small snacks for the tent (crisps, breakfast bars etc) then eat properly once I'm out and about, usually once or twice a day but that can add up fast....probably around £100 across the weekend. 

And priorities. In my early 20s I loved the ridiculous choice of food at Glastonbury. This was before street food and dining clubs took off in the UK and it was something unique to festivals and, on the scale of Glastonbury, pretty much unique full stop. I'd just buy a few fewer drinks in order to be able to indulge more in the food.

[balti-pie]

Glastonbury being a Performing arts festival includes food as an art, as far as im concerned. Amazing eats to be found, and as a person who isnt concentrating or intending on getting drunk/stoned/off my chops food is very much something i look forward to getting right involved in. I could take a stove and cook up, but i wont - i have a bag of tent snacks which is predominantly fruit, cereal bars and immediate stuff, and then im into the food stalls because thats very much one of the attractions. At the moment im thinking about the tikka daal and rice from the goan fish curry stall, cos its bloody great

[The Nal]

59 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Glastonbury being a Performing arts festival includes food as an art, as far as im concerned. Amazing eats to be found, and as a person who isnt concentrating or intending on getting drunk/stoned/off my chops food is very much something i look forward to getting right involved in. I could take a stove and cook up, but i wont - i have a bag of tent snacks which is predominantly fruit, cereal bars and immediate stuff, and then im into the food stalls because thats very much one of the attractions. At the moment im thinking about the tikka daal and rice from the goan fish curry stall, cos its bloody great

Agree 100% and one of the most disappointing things of the recent overcrowding. Huge food queues!

[balti-pie]

32 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Agree 100% and one of the most disappointing things of the recent overcrowding. Huge food queues!

And queuing somewhere with a big queue, making the assumption that this means its great stuff. Sometimes, yep, it definitely does, and sometimes it absolutely bloody isn't. I'm still scarred by the shitbag salt beef bagel i got near West Holts by the bridge: big queues, £11 for a bagel, ok, its a lot, but ill happily pay that if there's big thick delicious slabs of salt beef. 

There wasnt. It was tiny slivers of supermarket pastrami in a very boring bagel. an absolute disgrace to anyone, let alone a man who has an intimate knowledge of the bagel bakeries of North London n17 (that's me!) i shouldve looked at the front of the queue and seen what was being served up, a rookie mistake that i hope nobody makes 

[Crazyfool01]

39 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Agree 100% and one of the most disappointing things of the recent overcrowding. Huge food queues!

Was it an issue last year ? The year previous I know it was but can’t remember complaints last time 

[The Nal]

Just now, Crazyfool01 said:

Was it an issue last year ? The year previous I know it was but can’t remember complaints last time 

I wasnt there in 2023 but there were queues as far as I read on here anyway. 22 was a total shitshow.

[Skip997]

Food at festivals exists to sustain you and allow you to keep partying.

As long as the portions are decent and it tastes okay that's enough.

[stuie]

36 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Food at festivals exists to sustain you and allow you to keep partying.

As long as the portions are decent and it tastes okay that's enough.

What a load of absolute boloney. 

Ration packs and MDMA it is then?

 

 

 

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

We were happy with just bread and water in the good old days.

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, stuie said:

What a load of absolute boloney. 

Ration packs and MDMA it is then?

If I was going to a festival for food, I'd go to a food festival (which I've heard exist).

Ration packs? Good idea, I may have to look into that