10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Helicopters and cool hotels: forget Winnebagos, this is how the style set really do Glastonbury
I'm not going to Glastonbury this year (U2 aren't performing), but I actually wish I was - not to watch the likes of the 1975 or Olivia Rodrigo, but to stay for a few days (and nights) in The Newt. There really is nowhere else like it in the country. When we left, we were transported in some style (they have branded Newt Landies) to Castle Cary station, where you are encouraged to loiter in the Creamery café until your train arrives, an upscale restaurant and shop owned by The Newt, and which acts as some kind of luxury holding pen bookending your experience. Thinking it would be rude not to, I bought two cases of the fine cider produced by the estate and started to wonder how I'm going to headline Glastonbury next year.
