Tomorrowland 2018 Travel Diary
How is it that a song can coat you in goosebumps and make your soul dance? I guess, there’s science and there’s sensation – and Tomorrowland is an adventure for the artists, the dancers, the celebrators and the lovers…
Dancing through from sunrise to the high moon and spending five days out under the wide-open sky really is a life for the dreamers.
It’s impossibly difficult to capture the energy of Tomorrowland and why it’s different to anywhere else I’ve ever known, but there’s a magic to the atmosphere that cannot be bottled…
However, the memories and the music have left me with the same goosebumps weeks later and that I can keep forever.
There’s a constant energy – a background crackling of electricity – that can be felt when people who love their life come together in one space. It’s contagious and wandering around the playground of Tomorrowland makes you feel inhibition- free from the moment your eager eyes open. Everyone you can see is living life fully on their terms, dressing how they want, dancing with everyone and living their life fully. There’s a freedom to Tomorrowland, and everyone is celebrating.
Here, the everyday is forgotten the moment you dance into the festival and instead, you’re surrounded by the unapologetically eccentric. There’s magic in the detail and every corner is a photograph, a glistening memory. Fragments of Alice in Wonderland can be found in wooded pathways, while each unique stage is embellished with details from the ocean to fit the underwater theme for this year.
You’re free to dance and kiss all day long and you do so sun-kissed and star-kissed, if just for the dusting of glitter that highlights cheeks and collar bones in the crowds.
We planned Tomorrowland as a once in a lifetime experience, and it exceeded all expectations. Yet, by day one I was desperate to return next year…