As she prepares to travel to Hay-on-Wye, Bryony Gordon shares her dos and don'ts for those attending the annual literary festival
Tintern Abbey, immortalised in verse and paint by Wordsworth and Turner, is about an hour’s drive from Hay-on-Wye. Its ruins offer an opportunity to find solitude away from the bustle on the lawn at the festival itself
The Telegraph 23 May 2015
Until I turned 30, my experiences of festivals had predominantly been... well, grubby if I am honest. I was just eight when I went to my first one - Reading, as it happens - having been dragged along by my trendy uncle and cousins under the belief I was going to see some pixies. Imagine my surprise when I realised that actually, I was going to see a band called The Pixies. I was wearing a pony sanctuary jumper and a Laura Ashley floral skirt and a naked woman with a dog tied to a stick took one look at me and pronounced: “what the **** are you doing here?” She had a point, however crudely she had decided to make it, and I realise now that she was probably on drugs, but it scarred me for life festival-wise. I’ve never really been a fan.
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