Stopping to chat to the other people, 15 minutes goes by and no-one else has turned up. We start to get the feeling that it's been a change of venue due to the weather. After wondering what to do, some lights are spotted coming up the road. A car pulls up, and asks where the party is. We tell them we're not sure what's going on. By amazing luck at that very moment, one of the blokes in the car recieves a text message, saying that the party has been moved to the A34 tunnel - ten miles back the way we came! We follow in convoy, back to the A34, and turn off a side road leading to the tunnel. If that text message had been sent five minutes earlier, then I doubt we would have made it to the party at all!
Quite a few people had already made it there and loads of car's were parked down the hill leading to the party. We walked down the hill, through the mud and rain, and past a few van's blocking the entrance. The music was turned on soon after we arrived - two large speaker stack's stood at one end, with a couple of colourful spinning lights on top of them - essential for tunnel parties! Pounding techno was played all night, with a set or two of drum and bass in the earlier morning.
Rain still poured down for most of the night, but everything inside the tunnel stayed dry. The atmosphere was, as usual, extremely friendly, with a few old faces turning up. Plently of people danced throughout the night, with the added fire juggling sideshows warming up the tunnel. Fire staff, poys and breathing lit up the whole place, and for a while, the rain, mud and cold didn't seem matter. Cars and trucks, less than 10 metres overhead, rushed by blissfully unaware that people underneath them were having a good time at that time of the morning.
As it got lighter, the rain stopped and the sun came out for a while. A few people were still turning up, after getting lost, and eventually finding the party four or five hours after it had started! Saying our goodbye's, we left at 7am for the journey home. Really nice party, and I'm glad we managed to get there in the end!
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