So this weekend was the first weekend of sleeping under the stars of the year....For me anyways!
As I made my way to Victoria Coach station to meet up with Joe and John I managed to get a sleeping bag, which also meant, I now had a bag with 3 quilts, plus a sleeping bag!
We had the Coolest seats in the back, also the ones closest to the bathroom, but who could comlpain when we had a elder lady bus driver who for 40 mins or so explained how to use the flush button in the toilet?! Well, She had tried it herself, and if u only pressed it once, it wouldn't flush, you had to press it many times.......
John was the first in our happy trio to try it out after 2 beers, and strangely enough after pressing the button once it did flush?! Although, since he wasted all the water, by waiting on hot water to come through, none of the other toilet visitors had any water to wash "the soap" off......
Arrived in (Wales!!!!)Cardiff where we met up with Richard, had some pizza's and met some of Richard's Uni friends! Nice nice! After trying to find a place at 1pm or so when everything around that area had closed up we all decided that since we were going to a festival to sleep outdoors without a tent, there wouldn't be so much sleep, we should probably try to sleep.
After strutting about at Richards for a while (Joe doing his daily push-ups) Gurdep showed up and after some more wandering and talking we all left the flat only 1 hour too late to meet up with Alicia and Cat at the trainstation.
Walking through a really beautiful Cardiff (well the weather was beautiful) we walked by some buskers and one of them really reminded me of a woman in Gothenburg that stands on a bridge and only play's 2 tones on her flute?! haha, well this woman had a guitar with 2 strings, which she strummed on open frets! xfactor style!
Herrees?! Sherehe?! Heeerefourdshoure?!........(the guy taking my ticket order leaned over to his college who said, Well these guys are going to Hereford)
ah, yeah Heeeresheshere, that's where I'm going as well! Hahahaaa.... So on our way to this distant place not in Wales, we're back in England yeay!
Arriving we find out that the bus only runs every 2 hours, and we just missed one, have about 1 1/2 hour! Guitar, drinks, food and Ice cream is always nice to make time go a bit faster.....Busride was really interesting, and we realized why it only went 2 times a day! haha, 1 lane roads and bus had to reverse several times, since it's soooo much easier for a bus to reverse than a car?! Well, after dropping off the only person not in our group, and aussie woman, and letting Joe relieve his bladder (quite a long piss indeed) in a bush at a bed and breakfast, we arrived in Eadersley or something like that, and paid our farewells to the Italian bus driver!
Springstan or Wingspan (which was the infamous name Alicia re-baptized it to) was merely a field, prob around 300-400 ppl by the time we got there, when the families had almost gone....we had two 8-10 year old girls in front of us in the queue, we got our yellow wristbands and we're happy to be 7 of the 500 ppl that were lucky enough to get tickets...especially since there were people standing outside casting longing glances on the field (or maybe the lightly dressed girls sunbathing?!)
We had missed almost all of the acoustic folk acts except one, who happened to be a guy that went to the same school that Richard went to..... Then after some sunbathing (yes I flashed my shining white swedish legs) and some more snacking and drinking the tents were soon filled with Drum&base and of course dancers.
After some dances and meeting random ppl I actually managed to fall asleep in my sleeping bag, only to wake up 2 hours later, stand by the fire for a minute or two. Then deciding sleeping bag was probably warmer, so me and richard lay down between Cat and Joe who also had crashed by this point. After about 20 minutes or so the Security guys woke us up and asked us to move since there was an ambulance coming to pick up a guy with a dislocated knee.
So John and Richard grabbed Cat and Joe, carried them up the field, still in their sleeping bags, and we could all go back to sleep.
Waking up several times during the night due to very cold feet, I realized after waking up around 6 or 7 that our sleeping bags were covered with frost! yeah! hahaha....A taxi was waiting and it was time for us to head off to heeresherfordshire?! The golden arches served breakfast, so 2 hours or more were spent under the air-fan in the Ladies room and then back to Cardiff.
With everybody looking as fresh as ever we said our goodbyes and it was time for the happy trio to leave for London again.........
Next event planned - Joe's leaving party!
