Hi

I've been to Glastonbury around 15 times now. I think your questions are fine, by the way.

1) Being clean. There are showers but not many of them. They're usually near the Green Field. If you really want to shower daily you'll need to get up early and queue. Often they run cold. One year they were mixed sexes with no dividing wall. Not sure if your a bloke or a woman. A lot of people do a partial stand up wash / hair wash at the many field-taps - cold water in an open field. Staying clean is do-able, but hard work. I understand some make do with 'dry shampoo' - as a bloke with short cropped hair I don't really bother myself.

2) Yes the toilets are disgusting. The smell of faeces in a small warm plastic port-a-loo shouldn't be underestimated. Very high gag factor. The 'long drops' (cubicles that don't flush, just have a toilet seat and a 10 foot drop below it) have much more fresh air and are acceptably private. Always take your own toilet paper (we wrap around 2 ft around a hand, then carry it in a pocket), as you really wouldn't want to go without. Toilets are usueable, but you'll probably retch a bit the first few times you use them. The laxative idea, by the way, is not a god one - the change of food / cold air may make you need to 'go' more urgently anyway. At best, laxatives will dehydrate you. At worst - well, it takes a long time to walk to a toilet from the middle of a crowd!

3) Wednesday's the best day to go - it gets crowded after that.

4) We tend to leave the tent around 8am (sun makes it too hot after that - we hope!), come back for a couple of hours midday-ish, then go out again mid-afternoon. When it rains a lot, that varies. I think most people stay around their tents in the evening - it's hard to generalize.

5) Yes we can take our own alcohol, but not in glass containers because the cows get the fields back after the festival is over. Alcohol prices in the festival are very reasonable, but not as cheap as taking your own. Main limitation to taking your own is the weight - you park outside the arena and should expect to walk and carry your stuff in for at least 20 - 30 minutes or more, so bottles of booze soon start to feel heavy.

6) I'm personally not into drugs at all, but won't preach - each to his own. Definitely don't try to smuggle drugs in - people do get caught and as well as missing the entire festival you'd get a criminal record. Not worth it IMHO.

Have fun