Glastonbury Festival
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Glastonbury is quite simply the finest music festival in the world. It may not always attract the biggest-name bands, but there’s something special about the vibe in the surrounding countryside of southwest England – Druid burial mounds, crop circles, converging ley lines and the like – and the festival digs right into that groove. As well as taking in some great sounds, it’s a time to rediscover your free-spirited, tree-hugging side, sleeping under canvas, losing your shoes in the mud and sharing toilet facilities with a hundred thousand other people. There’s a lot of drugs, a lot of young people and a great buzz, but Ibiza it ain’t – you can still smile at people and hug strangers, but the person you’re doing it to may be dressed as a Womble or the Earth Mother Goddess.

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Where?
Glastonbury, England

When?
End of June

How Long?
3 days
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