{"id":217923,"date":"2025-06-27T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217923\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:33:18","slug":"cyclist-completes-madrid-to-glastonbury-festival-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217923\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist completes Madrid to Glastonbury Festival adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the gates for Glastonbury Festival opened on Wednesday, most punters present had made the journey by coach, train or car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But 25-year-old Ollie White decided to take a different approach &#8211; cycling to Worthy Farm in Somerset all the way from the Spanish capital city of Madrid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the course of almost a month he crossed &#8220;desert-like landscapes, a mountain range and hundreds of kilometres of coastline&#8221;, and has documented every day in TikTok and Instagram videos edited from inside his tent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr White said arriving at Glastonbury after such a long journey &#8220;doesn&#8217;t feel real&#8221; and after enjoying the festival he will continue his adventure home to Sligo on Ireland&#8217;s west coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Video journalist: Lilly-Mae Messenger<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow BBC Somerset on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcsomerset\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcsomerset\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X, external<\/a>. Send your story ideas to us on email or via <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/47DEoQy\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the gates for Glastonbury Festival opened on Wednesday, most punters present had made the journey by coach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-217923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753936093836586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}