Celebrated and deliberated

Myself and SWMBO celebrated 20 years of going to festivals on Saturday at "Our Back Yard" festival. We have had some amazing experiences and seen an amazing number of bands, some massively famous, some not known to us but all with their each entertainment.

From Don McLean singing a Buddy Holly song live to us on Glastonburys Pyramid stage to Super Turbo Ninja Club at Vantastival right through to the amazing place that was the Spirit of Folk festival, Solfest and many many more experiences, it has been awesome, right down to SWMBO tripping up (accidentally) Norman Cooke (fatboyslim) at Glastonbury and sending him into a face full of mud and bringing his BBC film crew into hysterics. Spending time with friends, with other craic'ers with strangers, with toilet cleaners from Somerset, it has been awesome!!

We couldn't of wished for beter experiences, a lot of people will fail to have such experiences and events and I'm glad we didn't........ Blondie waving at us in 1999 from an open top bus, Michael Stype shouting my name at the RDS in Dublin, the naked dance parties, the silent disco's, the ganja, the piano bar, strummerville, the hill of death, the hidden gems that a lot of people miss, the nightime and early morning madness, running into a comedian standing on a tea chest at 4am and standing to watch him tell jokes and do magic wondering WTF! was going on!!

The circuses, the trapeze the clowns everything................ 20 years of amazing memories, too introducing craic'ers to festivals - I think the majority of craicers had never ever been to a Festival.

What a ride!!! one more to do this year, Stendhal, and then I think that's us retiring for a year or two at least. Time for something new. I have a few idea's

But the real reason for this long message is this, I think I have come to an end of my camping, caravanning and Motorhome days, I'm hoping it's just a blip - Julie has been telling me to wise up, but then she does that a lot

He didn't mention RV.
Maybe something bigger is in the pipeline

Mr Onion, this better be a blip,

We have taken a similar decision this year, to not do the few festivals which we have done previously and this along with other festivals clashing with family events means we will have missed out on all festivals this year.

Without Ally's encouragement we would never have gone to a festival and now that we have we really enjoy them as there is something for everyone no matter what sort of taste in life you have, so ya big ballix quit sitting on yer arse thinking about life, get out there and enjoy it, you are a long time dead!

Festivalling (SP?) takes a lot of funding, organising, weekends used up etc

Glastonbury requires nearly two weeks and £2000 + on it's own.

Whilst those 20 years were brilliant! time for change and maybe one festival a year. I could be talking nonesense but sure it's good for a conversation.

Less festivals = more touring, loads and loads of England to do yet, most of Scotland and all of Wales. Never mind I ain't done half of Ireland yet.

Life is short, we gotta make more time for the other stuff we want to do. I had a few panicky messages from craic'ers which was funny and nice

"We've only started festivals!! what d you mean you're no longer doing them?!?!?!" "Give up motorhoming? we've only started!!?"

I doubt we will ever give up Motorhoming, but we will do it differently to what we are doing now. </maybe>

Roll on November, see you there.

Next Friday, it’s only around 40deg at the minute

Cheap in certain places, all the good bars we went too with entertainment the beer wasn't cheap.

Fair enough/..../But Benidorm is pretty expensive compared to other parts of Spain....Where we have a place in Torrevieja there are lots of great inexpensive bars and restaurants.....Still dirt cheap compared to Ireland....We can buy bottles of gin for 4 euro ffs!

Jon....I hear ya!.....Spain is cheap compared to Ireland and the UK......Where the f*ck was Ally eating and drinking for it to be expensive???

Ah.... Those Donegal lads....That explains it!

I'm right now sipping on those 4 euro bottles of gin I brought back at xmas....Luvvly Jubbly!