Why does glastonbury have a break

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The breaks are in order to "give the farm, the village and the festival the traditional year off". And just like clockwork, the festival has come back the year after those breaks. One potential issue with a Glastonbury festival in is that a planned move from the legendary Worthy Farm to a new site has fallen through. But every five years the music show is suspended, which is known as a "fallow year".

Here's the reason why the gig has a short hiatus. As you probably already know, Glastonbury takes place on Worthy Farm - which is a working dairy farm in Pilton, Somerset. Every five years, the festival is put on hold because of a "fallow year" to prevent excessive damage to the site and allow locals to rest.

A lot of people think it's too big now: you can't possibly see everything or do everything. It's really exhausting and it's too intense, it's really overwhelming. My dad says that years ago there were underground tunnels near the Stone Circle, and even a stream where people crawled along to get in. The Stone Circle used to be an easy spot, because security didn't expect much trouble around there.

I take after my dad because I like breaking the rules. I'm a bit of an anarchist. So me and my ex-boyfriend gave breaking in a try. We certainly didn't expect to get in, so when it worked we weren't particularly prepared.

My ex came to the UK from East Africa as a refugee when he was 16 and had never been to a festival in this country, but was also very up for trying. After walking the perimeter of the fence for a while, we met a group of scousers looking shifty in the car park. They were waiting for the coast to be clear so they could put up the telescopic ladder they had hidden in a rucksack. At one point they did get it up on the fence. Someone said: "Go go go!

Go back! You can't see through the fence so you don't know what's on the other side til you're up there. They had got the wrong spot. We decided to carry on by ourselves. Not long after that, we met another guy who said he would get us in for a price. He had a ladder hidden in a ditch right next to the fence and kept watch while we propped it up and slipped over, straight into a campsite.

My ex said he would pay him as soon as I was over, but by the time I was at the top of the ladder, we'd been spotted and more security were on their way over, so we had to just make a run or rather, jump for it. There were these sort of supports holding the super fence up on the other side, which I used to slide down like a banister.

Then the second fence was much smaller, perhaps 7ft or 8ft, which I got over with a push from my boyfriend he jumped and vaulted it like a proper athlete. It's a massive adrenaline rush. And when you feel adrenaline you don't really feel pain: it's like fight and flight.

I scraped my knees on the main fence and I gouged my hand on the smaller fence; a massive piece of skin was taken out of my hand as I scaled the two fences, but I didn't even feel it. In , a Turkish immigrant started a garden near the Berlin wall on a patch of East German land. Osman Kalin fiercely defended his small domain from any authorities who tried to take it away.

Though he died in , his family are still looking after the plot and the tree house he built there. Image source, PA Media. You either go up and over or down and under. Image source, Getty Images. Julie, 'It was girls underneath, boys over the top!

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