big green gathering 2006

Hope you have a great trip to India Claire, and hope to see you round the forums more in the New Year.

 

car park we need to use less cars and car share more

 

This was one of the big ironies of the BGG for me: it's all very well going to an environmental festival to spend a week living a green lifestyle but going there in your car kind of defeats the object

The bus was fun, loading up about 30 people with all their tents and rucksacks onto a double decker, it was cheap and you actually got to meet people

 

When the bbc covered the big green the use of cars was one of the things they noticed and made fun of.

I also notice the number of big tents, I carry a two man tent a thermarest matress, all my clothes, including wet weather gear , I could bring my own food but because I steward I get food so I dont need to but I take plates cutlery ect.

If you have two people they could carry their own gear because they would be able to share tents it would be pretty easy, even if they had kids its possible to have both adults carry a two man tent or carry half each of a larger tent and their gear or spare clothes , in glasto I generally carry all my old mothers gear so I have a bergan on my back a rucksack on my front and Im carrying things in both arms and the distance you need to walk to get in and out of glasto is much greater but its no big deal, unless your disabled I dont think you need a car .

There is a certain sense of achievement knowing you can carry all your gear and your independant of the world to a degree , with my bergan I could carry all my gear to weston super mare or bristol if the buses stopped running .

I think in fact I could carry my stuff to anywhere as long as I was able to find food on the way

They do hikes like that all the time in the army so do backpackers, you get 70 and 80 year old people carrying all their own gear , my old mother used to carry all her stuff but shes got terminal cancer and a bad heart now so I carry her gear for her when she goes to festivals, but she was still carrying her own gear to her mid 70s and yet you hear fit young people saying its too hard

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transport of the future

 

You need a fine rucksack like mine....

 

CAR SHARE PEOPLE!!

 

car share or bus or cycle or hike

And my british army berghaus cyclops rucksack served in the falklands and is plain but mighty strong ,your rucksack is nice ....fancy even but lacks the charicter of my old bergan .

 

There were quite a few people who cycled there, I would certainly consider doing that although would need a proper touring bike with panniers and luggage racks to carry tent and gear...

 

I know a few people who cycled in with all their gear

found another film on big green gathering

Eco Village September big green gathering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjdf4ozvtYo&mode=related&search=

 

why do you think its awsom... there are no hot dog stands, no bands what do you like about it?

 

As someone who was working on one of the four main music venues throughout the festival I can assure you there were loads of bands!

 

i didnt see any bands on the video.

 

I'm gonna be at this green gathering next year come hell or high water! wowowowowow! Thanks Jonny for posting your pictures- iv been wanting to go to festivals like these for months but just didnt know about any of them. peace and love.

 

As Jonny has pointed out - work as a steward and get lovely free vegetarian food, a t-shirt and a sense of achievement

 

I love the random drum circles you come across.everyone just mashing it up to some beats!