Day 75: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
This morning was great! We decided to get up early, and ran across the festival site in order to get to the Glastonbury sign for 8am, as the gates open at 8am. We sat up there for about an hour and watched everyone coming through the gates and rushing with all their luggage to the best camping spots! It was so strange to see all the empty fields become a sea of tents in a few hours!
The weather was extremely hot, so for the next few hours, we tried to stay in shady areas like the Sacred Space (Stone Circle), where we also found the Glastonbury Dragon! A friend recommended to us Strummerville, somewhere we had not really visited in 2019. This was a great area - a small stage and lots of sofas placed in a circle with a continual fire burning in the middle! Unfortunately, although we looked for the famous apple cake, we never found it! Next time!
There is a Tipi Village located near to the Sacred Space, which is always interesting to walk around, and we found some great cake from one of the cafes there. We then found somewhere for lunch a bit later. There are over 400 food traders, so lots of good options!
We queues to buy a portable charger for our phones from the EE tent, as they offer a free swap of the charger for a fully charged one each day, which is very helpful. The festival was extremely busy in certain areas, so we decided to head back to the campsite due to the hot weather. After staying there for about an hour, we got dinner back in William’s Green before heading back to the campsite once more.
Tomorrow we have our early morning shift, starting at 5.45am. We will get up at 4.30am so we have enough time to get ready, as it will take about 30 minutes to walk there. I am feeling quite nervous, especially as we are on a vehicle and pedestrian gate, so a little unsure about what our roles will be. It is an 8 hour shift too so I hope we don’t get too hungry or tired, although we do get a half an hour break.
There was a firework display as part of the opening ceremony, but we were already back at the campsite so I only managed to spot a bit of it, as we decided to have an early night ready for tomorrow.
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