Bill Holt

First of all cheers Mike on more valuable information.

I'm sorry the guys whose stories featured had a crappy time but for us this year has to be one of the best yet. We got our programmes on the Friday before and tickets on the Tuesday (event pass 2), sharing two tickets between three of us, if we can get into Glastonbury a Welsh forest should cause no problem.

Decided to set off Friday morning heading for Walters, got there no problem, well the only problem was we forgot the Sun cream! Walters was ok, not a bad starter for the next two days. It took a couple of hours to get out but the fireworks kept us amused plus tales of last year when verticle rain sent our gazebo flying down the car park, wiping out everything that came in it's path. Anyway, finally got out and then headed for our overnight stop, Halfway. Stopped at a great pub for some tea and a pint, got chatting to some of the locals, Hi to Amanda, a big lass, in fact a very big lass. If you get to meet her she drinks Thatchers cider, eight and she's on her back, we left after she'd had four, God help the French party that had just arrived.

Despite information telling us otherwise we headed for car park D (that included you Mike) and were shown into the army base. One hire van, 72 cans, a great big box of fireworks, stacks of wood and one close shave with a fat cider drinking druid we decided to party. All I can say from here is that it turned out to be a fantastic night, so Hi to the guy who brought his home made rocket (bomb) but had nothing to launch it with. We very nearly lost our deposit and the van when it fell from the sky. Also Hi to Gary and his two female companions, sorry that Mark lit a 16 shot air bomb upside down and it peppered your mate's car (very very funny though). Hi to the guy who then moved his car ! Oh and the two females Gary brought, next year when you stay over on a rally read Mike's tips for clothing, cut down crop tops are not the most sensible clothing for sitting around at 1am. Anyway at 3.00am it was time for rest however the lager had got the better of me and I ended up face down in a ditch unable to move. Finally got to the van but despite our drunken offers the only thing that went down on me that night was the air bed !

Next morning it was Carling for breakfast and a short walk to the stage, not many Hitlers (marshals) about so we were able to roam quite freely. The view over the valley was awesome, seeing them flat out down the hill was mind blowing, speaking of which, thank you Network Q for holding the rally a couple weeks earlier, the fields were full of magic mushrooms !!!!! Spent hours picking them, thank you God.

Saturday night was spent giggling about Friday night, oh and tea in a very strange pub somewhere with a lot of Llll's in the name. Hi to the guys next to us whose idea of lighting fires is to rip a tree down and pour half a gallon of petrol over it, very amusing but a complete waste of time.

Sunday - sacked the first stage, gave a lift to three guys - a Welshman, a Scotsman and an Englishman, which had the making of a very funny joke especially when they had walked for two hours the wrong way looking for their car. We then went to Margam but got bored so drove back to Manchester.

That was a brief tale of our rally 2002. My advice is don't take it too seriously, hire a van to sleep in, if you have a fire you attract people to chat and share tales with and think of a good scam so at least you think you have got one over on them. Anyone fancy Spain next year?