Lady’s Glastonbury Travel Guide

Glastonbury is famous for one thing: the music festival. For five days in summer, the UK news is filled with photos of performers wowing crowds and celebs trudging through mud in their wellies. But there are 360 other days of the year when the town can be visited, and my Glastonbury travel experience took place on one of them.

Glastonbury Travel Guide

When I arrived in Glastonbury, what I found was something straight out of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley or The Haight in San Francisco.

Glastonbury High Street

The small high street in Glastonbury was lined with hippie shops selling crystals and secondhand clothing. Restaurants and cafes served cuisine from all over the world.

There was the Chocolate Love Temple, a shop selling cocoa-themed aphrodisiacs. Nearby was a store offering everything a girl could need to turn herself into a witch (seriously, they even sold broomsticks).

Glastonbury’s high street made me feel like I had touched a magic crystal and been transported back to Northern California. It was great.

Glastonbury Abbey

From the high street, Glastonbury grew residential very quickly.

My Rabbie’s tour group (I was here compliments of Rabbie’s) passed the ruins of the famous Glastonbury Abbey, where King Arthur is said to have been buried, and turned a corner to find ourselves surrounded by houses.

Somerset Rural Life Museum

Soon we passed a barn that was part of the Somerset Rural Life Museum, complete with farm animals and old red wagons.

Glastonbury Tor

From residential the town grew rural, and suddenly we were climbing a steep set of steps to reach Glastonbury Tor, a stone tower with stunning views across the English countryside.

Glastonbury Travel

Walking back into town, I realized that in the course of my afternoon in Glastonbury, I hadn’t seen a single trace of the festival.

Maybe the crystals had something to do with it, or maybe there was more to Glastonbury than just the music after all. From what I saw during my Glastonbury travel experience, it’s the latter.

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