2016 Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts took place between 22 and 26 June

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2016 General Admission Tickets for the festival cost £228. The weather was very wet on Wednesday 22 June with major traffic delays getting to the festival. Organisers said that rain and ground conditions had caused delays and urged people "not to set off".

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The ticket represents particularly good value for money if, like one volunteer in 2007 who received a free ticket in exchange for his help tidying away the aftermath of the festival, you find £6,000 in cash during the course of the clean-up. That’s a pretty good return on investment for a £233 ticket he didn’t even buy – if he’d put the money in a savings account it would take until 2668 (that’s 652 years) for his money to generate the same return, assuming today’s interest rates remain flat.

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Great value for money on price but  catch is! unpredictable English weather turns grassy fields into muddy bogs in moments, quaint walks become muddy conquests 

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2016 ticket price of £223 (which includes a £5 booking fee) is around 1/10 of the average UK salary. Also, tickets for the initial festival included free milk from the farm. To give each attendee a pint of semi-skimmed today would cost £78,750 from the average supermarket.

 Headlining the festival were Muse, Adele and Coldplay on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively.

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 2016 world’s largest outdoor festival . 300 cows have been relocated from the fields on Worthy Farm, Pilton, to a safe location in order to make room for the iconic Pyramid Stage, acres of campsite and around 5,000 portable toilets.

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 This year, though, there’s also a real worry about the lifespan of the festival itself, compounded by confusing comments by founder Michael Eavis. He’s long stated that Worthy Farm and the surrounding land. much of which is loaned from other farmers especially for the festival, may not be a sustainable location for such a huge event.

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 Lots of festival goers lament the end of Glastonbury, but what would it look like if it continued all year long? The hypothetical country of Glastonbury would have a population of around 175,000 inhabiting a space of 900 acres, or 1.4 square miles. That would make it the most densely populated nation on Earth by quite some way, with nearly four times as many people per square mile than the most crowded country in the world, Macau.

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2016 Glastonbury was oddly overshadowed by THE BREXIT Farage Factor

Apart from the mud, the other major thing that cast a shadow over the weekend was the EU referendum. What sort of a shadow wasn’t entirely clear on the Thursday night, as we headed off to our tents with the BBC reporting that Farage had thrown the towel in and Remain was a near certainty.

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Complaints poured in like the rain itself on the opening days, and while conditions were horrendous in parts, and the effects on the travel situation and car parks some of the worst ever experienced, the show rolled on. While it does make for an exhausting experience, it is just that, part of the experience.

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