Hitchhiking To Glasto

[robbieflash]

Ever so tempted to give it a go, has anyone on here tried it?

I reckon it'll just add to it in so many ways.

Was inspired by this to give it a go - http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2010/explore/#p008px1s

[whatme]

i did it Years ago,late 80's early 90's but only from yeovil

but that was the time of jumping/going under the fence

[Roo]

yeah, I hitched a few times in the distant past. One year was booked on an organised coach and due to a train error getting to the coach pick-up ended up in stafford! Weather was nice luckily & managed to hitch down arriving only 2 hours after the coach!!! Though I did have a lot more stuff with me than I would have if the plan was to hitch!

These days though with the interwebs, facebook & twitter it should be just as easy to arrange a lift in a car going that has space. I rarley see anyone hitching these days and suspect it is because very few people stop to pick up hitchers.

Also, it is very much a last resort - if the weather is nasty you don;t want to be turning up soaked to the skin with everything already wet and if you do look like a drowned rat, people will be less likely to want you dripping water all over their seats.

Hitching back out of the festival though should be pretty easy I would have thought!

[GlastoWatch]

It's the 21st century, it's all about cyber hitch-hiking now.

[Hash4Cash]

i hitched many times right up to 2000. wouldnt do it now im too old and not really fit enough.

had some good times hitching though... if you see me about id loe to tell you some of my stories.

Best Hitch was in 98 when i got picked up, first lift that took me all the way to street, just outside glastonbury town. He was a little cheff repair man and had just fixed the little cheff near ipwich. Then on the monday i had just got outsied pilton when a van stopped to pick me up, it was the same bloke going back to the same little cheff, and he dropped me off outside my door. oh and he got me a free dinner both ways too.

[akicif]

Last couple of years we've started walking from the campsite we stayed in on the Tuesday night, and barely gone a mile before someone's stopped and offered us a lift the rest of the way....

(Not sure if that counts for the green traveller thing - even though this year I'll be taking the train from Edinburgh)

This year, I don't know - tempted by Stonehenge on the Tuesday and then hitching on the Wednesday morning, perhaps.

[robbieflash]

Hash4cash, sounds like your stories are a must here! We'll have to at twisto or something?
I reckon i'm going to e-hitchhike, need to consult with a mate though.
Might be worth heading down to a mates in Devon a few days before and then crossing over on the Wednesday..
Hmm.

I'd love to give it a go, i guess it's just another ridiculous story to tell.

[Hash4Cash]

One time I got in this truck on the 303 and the naked German lorry driver said: "Gutten tag, where ist go?", i replied: "Right here will do fine mate." but it was too late he was already down the slip road.
Later he continued: "Der ist like wank." "What?" "Like to wank, Ich can see down girls from here." and he peered out of his open window.
Luckily I saw a sign for Andover and got off. (No pun intended)