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Sunday night arrives, and the party is set for that night. I round up some people to come with me. The time is now 9pm and we set off on the journey to the meet up point - which is Goodwood country park, just above Chichester. we get with in ten miles of the meet up point, and my phone rings - the party's been cancelled, police have seized the DJ's equipment. Now at this point we are feeling pretty low, but decide to drive down to the coast rather than go home, now for the next half hour we are trying to think of things to do...it was decided to visit a mate of ours in Portsmouth - this wasn't a great option - but we didn't really have much of a choice. Stopping for a quick munchie stop, I check my answer machine - there's a message - another party is on, this time on a beach at Hayling Island (next to Portsmouth) - this was only 20 minutes away.

We get down there, and park up in the beach's car park....loads of car's are starting to arrive full of people. We get out and walk along the pebble beach for about 15 minutes, when we slowly hear a thumping bass line.....around the corner is a natural sandy amptitheatre type place, where two sound systems had been set up with a big fire in the middle of the two. Looking out to sea, you can see the bright lights of Portsmouth quite clearly - the perfect place. We couldn't believe it, there were about 200-300 people there already with more people arriving all the time. we sat down on the sand for a while, sold loads of French beer for a great profit & spoke to loads more people. Time is now about 2am, coming up we hit the sandy dancefloor - having a wicked time, we stay there for ages. Now about this time the police turn up, and the music gets turned down while they talk to the DJ's - they don't really mind that it's going on, so the music get turned up again....defiently the peak of the whole night.

Through out the night we meet more people, have a great laugh with them. At about 4 or 5 it starts getting light, were still on the dancefloor...the sun rises and it was a great sight to see. by 6am we're still up for it, but as the numbers on the dancefloor are slowly dropping we decide to get a fire going. Stand around that for a while, watching what everyone else is doing. now about this time the second instalment of police arrive, they have a chat with the DJ's and seem to be laughing - everything's going to be alright! One of the women police offices even had a fag on the go! the other one was the fittest policewomen I've ever seen, she must have loved it, because she was getting so much attention, even kissing one or two of the ravers! 7am arrives and we decide to make a move home, luckily my house is free for the week, so the party continues around my house, with load of people dropping by through out the day....

Bugs






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