H<\/span>ow to get there comfortably, and how to leave quickly\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> H<\/span>elicopter access to Glastonbury is available through flyglastonbury.com<\/a>, which operates a landing site about half a mile from the festival entrance. Its customers typically arrange the \"Bristol Shuttle\", which means parking in Bristol and flying from there. Return passage costs \u00a3960 per person. Atlas Helicopters<\/a> can arrange transfers from any UK location, with flights from London taking 45 minutes and those from Leeds just 90 minutes, POA. From Brighton, a 60-minute helicopter transfer for two with HeliFly<\/a> costs \u00a31,878 each way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n I found myself wondering how David A got to Glastonbury the other night for his adulatory\u00a0walk-on congratulating the massed throng for their restraint in not using too many plastic bottles \u2013 he wasn't quite right in saying that none had...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWith up to 170,000 weary individuals being disgorged from the festival site on the last day of Glastonbury, interminable traffic jams make for a depressing end to an already exhausting few days. So for those with the means, chartering a helicopter and bypassing the roads below is a popular way of finishing off Glastonbury.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I imagine that the Brighton shuffle has been very popular, but that's just my prejudice against the place \u2013 which Keith Waterhouse memorably described as a town that looked as if it was helping the police with their enquiries.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"