Oliver White is on his remaining leg and hoping to get to set foot in Glastonbury tomorrow – after two years residing in Spain and dealing as a content material creator for La Liga
A barmy festival-goer has spent practically a month biking 1,000 miles from Spain to attend his first Glastonbury Pageant.
Oliver White has tackled mountains and a whole lot of kilometres of shoreline to reach at Worthy Farm in time for the beginning of the world well-known occasion on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old, who was residing in Madrid, has lined as much as 100km every day on his first long-distance bikepacking journey crossing Spain and France. He has documented his trek every single day in TikTok and Instagram movies which have amounted 1000’s of views.
He’s now on his remaining leg and hoping to get to set foot in Glastonbury tomorrow (Wednesday). Oliver stated: “Understanding at the back of my head that the final word prize is attending to expertise Glastonbury has been an enormous motivator for me.
“I’ve shocked myself with my resilience and the way my physique has held up. I am 25-year-old so I am making an attempt to to profit from these years however I actually was anticipating to have some aches and pains and up up to now that hasn’t been a problem.”
Oliver spent the previous two years residing in Spain and dealing as a content material creator for La Liga – the best degree of Spanish soccer. His journey to Glastonbury is a part of an extended journey to return house to Sligo on Eire’s west coast.
Having walked a part of the Camino de Santiago final 12 months to succeed in a competition in Bilbao, Tom determined to have the same concept when he secured his Glastonbury tickets. He stated: “We had a implausible time after which as soon as I discovered I had my Glastonbury ticket it was going to be my first Glastonbury I simply got here up with this concept.
“I left my job in Madrid to do that journey and after Glastonbury I’m going to proceed travelling by means of the UK and again house to Sligo.
“Glastonbury is on the way in which house so I simply tried to tie all of it collectively.”
He left Madrid on Might 28 and spent 10 days in Spain travelling by means of areas with a “low inhabitants density space” and “lovely nature”.
All through his journey in Spain he was capable of join with locals attributable to his fluent Spanish – the place he was given free meals and drinks.
He crossed the border over the Pyrenees on June 8 on his eleventh day of the journey.
From France he went up the west coast the place he had a few rests with household pals.
In Roscoff, Brittany he received the ferry to Plymouth the place he arrived on Monday.
He stated: “Once I was residing in Madrid I rode a motorcycle on a regular basis to get to work and get round within the metropolis however I hadn’t performed too many lengthy distance trainings as a result of I used to be so busy working.
“The primary ten days I used them to construct up my health and the day I crossed the Pyrenees and I did like 120 kms after which since then my by greatest day was 138 kms after which two days I did 120 kms.”
Other than his on a regular basis biking Oliver has filmed and uploaded each day movies documenting his journey on-line – getting tens of 1000’s of views.
He stated that documenting his journeys has given him recollections for the remainder of his life.
“I am a filmmaker and filmmaking is my artwork kind so I wished to problem myself and simply to maintain bettering my expertise.
“It has been difficult at occasions. You’ll be able to think about after a 100 km day and I’m in a forest someplace making an attempt to switch information from my SD card and enhancing all of it.
“It isn’t simple however in the long run once I click on on the add button on Instagram or TikTok I’m actually proud of the ultimate product.”
As for the competition itself, Oliver stated it has been a “dream” for his complete life to attend the occasion.
He stated: “My mother and father advised me about their experiences in Glastonbury after they have been youthful and I watched all of the movies each summer season on TV, numerous YouTube movies and performances.
“To know that I am really going to be there’s actually wonderful and to get to see a few of my favorite artists.”
Oliver stated he was most wanting ahead to catching Neil Younger, Loyle Carner, Ezra Collective and Kneecap, in addition to acts from his childhood corresponding to Scissor Sisters and Kaiser Chiefs.
