IoW Fetival - Walking Happy-less, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (feel free to comment) mainly SOOC.
P1620681 - The Isle of Festival (modern version) www.isleofwightfestival.com/ now has some 70,000 attendee's this is a drive by of some happy people aren't they carrying supplies back from around a two mile trek into town and then back again.
The original Isle of Wight Pop festival attracted (1960-1970's) one million visitors apparently, not bad for an Island the size of Manhattan normal population 128,000 compared to Manhattan 4 million residents and 8 million during the working day!
The festival with it's potential 80,000 plus visitors does not bring that much revenue to the Island directly. The festival is a self contained site, with very few local trades people, The bus company and ferries are owned by off Island companies. The only local company Hovertravel retain fares on the Island, local traders do not see a huge change in turnover, so many borrow front gardens along the route to the supermarkets to extract some money from the visitors
SOOC
TZ5
Free hand drive by
This is one of two music festivals, the second is the Bestival in September www.bestival.net/
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