Categories: ArtMusic-FestivalsTravel

Glastonbury 2013

Another year, another great Glastonbury. It’s already been a month since our trip to the UK for the annual Glastonbury festival, so this is post is long due. Better late than ever I guess 🙂

As every year, it was an amazing just being there. The great music, art, performances were added bonus!

Before the festival, I spent some time with Jim and the rest of the Webber family. Mary and I also had the chance to see “The Book of Mormon”. Very funny! 🙂

I think the festival’s highlight was The Rolling Stones. Wow! They did an amazing job despite their age. We also enjoyed The Lumineers very much. The entire lineup was great, as always.

Unlike last time, no mud this year during Fri, Sat, and Sun. This made it easier to navigate the crowds throughout the festival crowds. Using Mary’s fitbit, we calculated that we were walking 15mi per day. And we still didn’t see everything.

Here are some representative moments.

Mary…

Mary and Savas…

Carole Goble and David De Roure… always great seeing them and spending time with them…

Random photographs from around the festival…

See you next year Glastonbury!

Savas Parastatidis

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI'. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana and led the effort as the team's architect. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He was involved in various e-Science projects while at Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas also worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. You can find out more about Savas at https://savas.me/about