A Worthy Farm camping trip isn’t quite Glasto, but it’s the best we’ll get this year
There’s less noise and fewer people, but a family trip to the Glastonbury site delivers enough of the festival experience to make great memories
December 2018
From the Guardian archive
Glastonbury, the hippies' Vale of Avalon – archive, 1969
20 December 1969 Jon Pepper on why Glastonbury has become a place of pilgrimage for poets, mystics, weirdos and sundry unclassifiables
June 2018
Pagan paradise: Glastonbury without the festival
What’s Glastonbury like without the bands and the fans? As the festival takes a year off, it turns out there’s still plenty to enjoy, from ethical taxidermy to wall-to-wall druids
June 2015
Let's go to
Let’s go to … Glastonbury
Glastonbury 2015: early weather forecast looks cloudy and damp
April 2015
Music festivals 2015: compare the costs of the world's biggest parties
California’s Coachella is the world’s most expensive music festival, while Exit in Serbia is the best place to go for a low-cost party, according to a comparison of costs at the world’s biggest festivals
June 2013
Country diary
History and myth entangled around Somerset's most notable landmark
Glastonbury 2013 weather forecast: pack your wellies and sunglasses
May 2013
Beyond Glastonbury: Michael Eavis's tour of Somerset
What to do in Somerset before and after the Glastonbury festival
March 2013
Stratford-upon-Avon travel tips: Shakespeare walked this way
Somerset travel tips: artistic flourishes along Michael and Mary ley lines
July 2011
Carry on glamping as Britain embraces luxury-tent breaks
Breaks in opulent yurts and tepees are riding a wave of popularity as Britain embraces five-star camping
June 2011
Weatherwatch
Glastonbury Weatherwatch: Be prepared for anything
Country diary
Country diary: Polden Hills, Somerset
September 2010
Glastonbury abbey apologises over Nicolas Cage trailer
Glastonbury abbey apologises over Nicolas Cage trailer
May 2010
Country diary
Country diary: Somerset
John Vallins Somerset
July 2009
Witch's job offers a magic £50k a year
Somerset tourist spot the Wookey Hole is advertising for a resident witch to live in its cave
June 2009
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