2020 ... you can kiss my ARSE!!!

[dizzojay]

Today Mr D and I planned to spend a day in Glastonbury, one of my favourite places.  We had originally planned to do this for my birthday, but that ended up being a week after lockdown in he UK started back at the beginning of April, so that never happened.

Therefore, now things are a bit more flexible, we had planned to do my birthday trip today - five months late but, hey-ho!




So, we got up early, and headed out about 8 am to start the two hour drive (which normally turns into a three hour drive when you take traffic into account) to Glastonbury.

We got to Glastonbury right about when we expected to reach it, and immediately it looked like every other person in England had the same idea.  The place was absolutely heaving; far more so than we'd ever seen it before.

So, we headed for our usual car park, only to find it full.  Then we tried another car park.  It was full. 

We drove around all five of Glastonbury's car parks and they were all full.  An hour later, we were still driving around the town, and no closer to being able to park the car.  There wasn't one single parking space to be had in the whole of Glastonbury.   So it was at that point we finally gave up; the curse of 2020 strikes again!  It appeared I was not destined to have a single day out this year!!

Anyway, rather than traipse all the way home for nothing, we decided that as we were in the area we might as well make what we could out of the day, so we headed about ten miles down the road to a nice little city called Wells where we stopped for a coffee and a bit of brunch.  Wells is where the movie, Hot Fuzz, was filmed, so we wandered around the city doing a bit of Hot Fuzz nerding.



After a few hours in Wells, we got in the car and had a little drive around the area.  We decided to have a nostalgia session, and visit our favourite haunts, including Batcome Vale, the breathtakingly beautiful valley nestled into the Somerset countryside where our favourite campsite sits.  We haven't been camping for about three years, and this trip made us determined we were going to have a proper camping trip next year.

We finished off the day with a meal in a lovely pub in a gorgeous little village called Evercreech, and decided we're going to make another attempt at the Glastonbury trip at the end of September when it's not school holidays or a bank holiday weekend.

So all in all, it ended up being a really enjoyable, spontaneous day, even though it wasn't the day we'd planned. 

2020 can still kiss my arse though.

Comments

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Flippin' heck that's madness! How can anyone enjoy a place when it's so crowded!! I'm pleased you had a good day eventually though - and weirdly we were talking about Hot Fuzz just now, as we watched Fisherman's Friends and were 'yarping' afterwards, hee hee! The view in the video is so beautiful. I hope you can make it back to Glastonbury soon xxx

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

We're aiming to go back at the end of September, so hopefully it should be a lot calmer then!
At least we were able to see as we were driving around that our regular coffee shop and pub in Glasto had both survived lockdown!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Well that's good news, I hope you get a chance to visit the pub and coffee shop in September x

[kazluvsbooks.livejournal.com]

I love hot fuzz so I am geeking out!! And I am so happy that you made the best of your day 😊

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It turned out to be a really nice day, thank you :)

[fanspired]

Well, that sucks ass, as Dean would say, but it's great that you were able to make the most of the day. Loved the video of the rolling hills of the English countryside. Not sure I've ever been to Evercreech but I know the name from my days working at the Milk Marketing Board. I worked on the St Ivel account, and they had a creamery there. That is so the wrong reason to know Evercreech! :D

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I remember the milk place there - not sure what it was, a dairy or something, but it was a massive place - I've driven past it many times! When we were there at the weekend we saw it was all demolished and being developed, probably into a housing estate or something :(

[jlynnaz30.livejournal.com]

man, that sounds like a bunch of crazy. Glad you made most of your day. 2020 can kick my arse, too.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It really was a bunch of crazy - you got that right!!

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

It's unfortunate you weren't able to fulfill your intended trip, but it seems the day was still something worthwhile, so I'd call that a win.

The parking solution sounds like everyone I've talked to that ends up going to the coast for the weekend. Endless lines just to get into the cities and then parking is very difficult to find. I'm aching to go to the coast, haven't made it yet, but that trip will have to wait a little bit to see if the crowds die down some. Maybe late fall.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Yes, all in all we had a nice day. Not the day we planned, but nice nonetheless.
We're planning to go back in late September so it's out of season, the kids will be back at school and there's no public holidays or anything, and hopefully everything will be back to normal then!