Happy Friday everyone,

As you know, the festival season is fast approaching and every festival junkie is almost wetting themselves with excitement. Us included!

The best weekend of the year, the one you look forward to all year round, the weekend that you can’t remember but are certain you had the time of your life, it’s all nigh upon us.

As with every positive there is always a negative. The hangover, the expense and not to mention the ruined clothes. For me it’s all the bloody queing and traffic jams. What a nightmare.

A few years ago at V festival in Stafford I decided to try my luck and come off the designated route and go round the traffic. Was it risky? A bit, yeah, since I didn’t know exactly where I was going. Could it have made my journey even longer? Potentially, but as Del Boy once said, “He who dares, Rodders, he who dares.”

I’m glad to say it paid off. We missed most of the traffic. Shame the hangover didn’t leave so quickly too.

The road they tell you you must stay on, guess what? You don’t actually have to. There is always one road somewhere running more or less adjacent to the one that you are on. So before you go to the festival take a map, sat nav or whatever you can lay your hands on and be a bit daring and leave the road when you find traffic and try and go round it, it amazes me why more people don’t do it.

I guess it’s the sheep following the shepherd effect. Baah!

I’ve saved hours in traffic at most festivals by doing this. However I do feel as though I should insert some sort of disclaimer here: if it doesn’t work (always has for me) then please don’t sue me!

Hopefully by the end of the festvial you would not remember anyway.

Speak soon and have a good weekend.

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