Brooks on Tour

Glastonbury is famous for the Glastonbury Music Festival but each year another Glastonbury music event takes place, the Glastonbury Extravaganza which is held in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. This is a much smaller event than the main festival it is for one night only but usually has some superb musicians performing. This year Van Morrison and Jamie Cullen were playing and we had tickets.  As a special treat we had booked ourselves a few nights at the Old Oaks a luxurious campsite on the outskirts of Glastonbury.  We had requested a pitch in the Terraces as this gives us a view over the local countryside. The pitches are well spaced, many with hedges between pitches giving a feeling of privacy.    The facilities at this site are wonderful always warm, very clean, with good quality fittings.  There are individual unisex rooms with shower, handbasin and loo as well the usual ladies and gents facilities. For events such as the Extravaganza, The Old Oaks arran...

Thursday night after finishing work we headed to Glastonbury and The Old Oaks. We had booked to stay until Monday.  We were pitched in The Orchard -  we were disappointed, the pitch sloped backwards the view out of front of the van was at the cabins instead of the countryside you see when pitched on the terraces.  I asked at the office if there were any other pitches available but unfortunately there were not, we decided to make the best of it. Friday was very warm and sunny we went to Wells and walked around The Bishops Palace.  The old ecclesiastical   buildings are very interesting, you can imagine the choristers rushing from their houses over the cobble stones to the cathedral for evensong. We discovered cherry and almond danish pastries from Burns the Bread - bakers, they were delicious. Saturday was windy and raining heavily, we managed a trip to the supermarket and that was about it. It was still raining Sunday which doesn't usua...