One word to Sum up Glastonbury....

.... UNBELIEVABLE, in absolutely every way; from the shear size and number of people, to the variety, quality acts and artists, the drop toilets, excess of pear cider and food, walking or as the case was wading, dancing, the relentless rain, colourful and just plain weird outfits and of course MUD, I've never seen anything like it.

There was just sooo much to do, tooo much in 3 days. The big name acts are just the tip of the iceberg, there are casinos, a circus, theatre, cinema, a whole village doing medieval style things like making wicka baskets and iron mongers, sculptures and wishing trees, not to mention tent after tent full of every type of music you can imagine from cheesy pop and karaoke to full on dance tents and our favourite of all..........the silent disco.

For those of you who have never been to a silent disco the idea is simply brilliant. There are two djs playing different types of music. On entering the tent you get given a set of head phones and you can choose which dj you want to listen to. You then put your headphones on and dance and sing along until your hearts content. There's no big booming sound system so there are no noise issues and the party just never ends. The weirdest bit is when you take your headphones off and just watch a whole load of people dancing, some fast to one dj and some moshing to the other dj, completely in their own little world.

So what of the MUD. Well in true British fashion we weren't going to let that stop our fun! There were people mud wrestling, paddling, rowing dingys or simply rolling in it which was all great fun to watch. The only draw back was in the difficulty of getting around. Moving between two places like the Pyramid stage and Lost Vagueness was like setting out on an expedition to the North pole. For every step you took going forward you would slip and slide backwards. In some places you lost your boots as the mud that held them just wouldn't let go.

This also limited the number of acts we got to see as by the third day we were simply exhausted having spent two days on the biggest man made assault course ever. But I still managed to squeeze in a good few acts. As far as the big ones go I saw Bloc Party, The Killers, The Kooks, Amy Winehouse, Klaxsons, Chemical Brothers, Joss Stone, Pete Doherty, Chas and Dave, The View, Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis so didn't do too badly but there were so many others I wanted to see...

Most of all I loved the fact that Glastonbury is still so un-commercialised. Apart from Carlseberg lager and the Orange Charge and Chill tent, everything feels like it is made on a local scale, even the water was Glastonbury water! This also meant that there was great variety in the food on offer and it got me thinking wouldn't it be great to get some variety in the drinks too but more on this tomorrow....