glasto review

i'm back. showered, laundry in progress, and back to work today for a three day week. i think it will be needed as last week was pretty exhausting! not because i was in the dance tent until 4 am, but because you walk and stand for virtually five days and sometimes through some pretty thick mud. several wellies got left behind...

it was absolutely brilliant though. 25 bands in 3 days including some of the biggest names in the biz - neil young, bruce springsteen, blur, crosby stills & nash, and tom jones. of course there were several 'smaller' names that i saw who were equally entertaining and talented just not as main stream.

there is nothing to prepare you for the enormity of it and a few things that you don't know before arriving. long car waits to actually get on site, trekking from the car to the tent with all of your gear, fires at night filling the air with smoke, human traffic jams, and all of the garbage. i have to say it was the garbage that bugged me most. being a 'green' festival it seemed that very few people cared about leaving no trace on fields that usually are home to the cows of worthy farm.

but the beautiful things you don't quite get either. massive paper lanterns being sent up like slowly reversing shooting stars every night, the huge variety of people and ages, a general no pushing policy, being able to wear whatever you want and get away with it, the park stage, the stone circle and most of all the 100,000 people plus sing-a-longs that take place daily.

it was a once in a lifetime experience that i'll never forget. *everyone* should put it on their bucket list.

going to glastonbury!

there weren't that many things that i consciously put on my 'uk bucket list', but going to glastonbury music festival was definitely one of them. it's the largest greenfield performing arts festival in the world and *everybody* plays there. not to mention everybody goes too - over 175,000 people!!!

it is lacking a lot of canadian bands this year in my opinion, but i'm a bit bias. neil young is headlining on friday night to make up for it though. you can check out the full line up here.

the weather is supposed to be gorgeous until at least friday, so we'll hopefully stay dry until then. to kick off my week off i'm going to see kelly in bristol tomorrow. she's taking the afternoon off so we're going to take in the banksy show at bristol museum. really looking forward to that.

keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't rain and that i don't lose my tent amongst the sea of nylon.

le update

evening faithful readers and my apologies for not being around of late. it's been a busy, tiring time for many reasons and it feels like much has happened since my last posting. the trip home was okay. we, of course, had some laughs, beers and i even got to watch the hockey game on my birthday. the weather was gorgeous, which was much appreciated by me too.

i do have some news to report that i'll make short and sweet. davoud and i are splitting up so it will just be me moving back to canada in august. i'm not going to say more than that, but we're both doing okay despite it being very sad.

the weather here when i got back was glorious, but has taken a turn for the worst. the rain and humid weather has settled in for the past few days making for not very nice hair days. i've been trying to get out for my training walks and did my longest one on sunday at 10 km! so if you haven't donated yet, you can do so by clicking here. i'm almost at 50% of my target and would love to make it to 100% before i get back to canada!