yup, it's governemt sanctioned holliday, as a thankyou for me paying lots and lots of taxes, it is totally illegal for them to do it but they do. last year i didn't manage to take a single day so they told me they were paying me. didn't happen. i'm in a fair bit of debt thanks to work
and shambala looks wicked, it's just a massive hippy festival
it's set on a massive and beautiful coutry estate, there are lakes, woodlands, a shit load of hammocks strung from any and every tree etc, there is secret santa etc which is a novel idea for a festival (enter how high, "got blunt?" "got weed?"). there's also a giant tree that they hollowed a tunnel through so you can just have a lie down inside a tree
i can just see it being so freaking good if you happen to have a nice bag of remedies.