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We’re back from HESFES and I survived the week camping. In fact, I quite enjoyed it!
I don’t holiday very often (the last one was 4 years ago), instead I tend to go to festivals, or spend my money going to dozens of gigs throughout the year, but whenever I do go on holiday I always realise how much I need a holiday and how refreshing a break can be.
We spent the majority of Friday travelling, it took us around 5 and a half hours to get to Mersea Island including a food/toilet stop, and several severe traffic jams. We arrived around 7pm and quickly assembled ‘Camp Clarke’ - our section consisted of 3 tents, a gazebo, 2 cars, and a trailer worth of camping gear. We also had two other families we knew camped either side of us, so we had a nice little mini-community set up, which was great for borrowing milk!
The week was spent dodging rainstorms, soaking up the sun, going to the beach, cooking on gas stoves, drinking overpriced coffee, eating vegan cake (it was delicious!), staying up late, getting up early, watching Jordan partake in activities in the Marquees, seeing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in a solar powered cinema, then listening to someone from Friends Of The Earth talk about climate change, getting muddy, getting clean, getting muddy again, going to the beach some more, and generally sitting around chatting to people about all kinds of wonderful things; some of which we knew about, and some we didn’t.
I’m still not convinced that camping is my holiday of choice (unlike Steph, who announced she wants to live in a tent!), but it wasn’t as bad as I had expected - the weather was bearable despite gale force ’sea breezes’ and quite a lot of rain…I think if you gave me a tent somewhere warm and dry (the south of France maybe?) I’d be happy to camp more often. ‘EUROHESFES’ anyone?
All in all it was very relaxing and both Steph, Jordan and I had a great time. Wild horses couldn’t keep Steph & Jordan away from HESFES 2008, so I’ll be there too!
You can see just a few of the 100s of photos Steph and I took here.
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