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15/3/2022 at 10:13am
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These days my tent camping is pretty much only when the 'Lads' (Lads!, the baby one has just turned 50! ) go mob handed to France for the Le Mans 24 Hour race. But as much as we love a beer or 10, that always waits until we have the tents up and at least the bedding sorted and personal baggage in our quarters, whether we also set up the kitchen depends on what eating arrangements we have in mind. As a minimum we have to set up the fridges/freezers to preserve the food we have brought with us (with the bonus that we can also chill the beers, not that that influences us at all! ). Depends on time of day, whether we also do the finessing, or leave that to next day. If refreshments are required it'll be bottled water!
Even our resident near alcoholic 'can't pass a bar' p**s head pal refrains until the camp is fit for use. As we take gallons of beer with us from home, or have stopped off at the supermarket for supplies on the way, the beer is readily to hand so no difficulty in just reaching out for one (or more). For nearly forty years of making this annual trip we have always set up camp to at least a functional state before breaking out the booze.
After the camp is set up to at least basic functional level, that's a different matter, many a year the next day, the question is asked "what happened after we pitched the tents ....."!!!!!  We have proven that beer is a sustaining food source and 'solids' are a mere luxury! - well maybe we raid the week's supply of cheese and finish it off that evening, but that's another mystery question - ".. where did all the cheese go?.."!  Got to be done, now traditional part of the ritual that is Le Mans for us!
My personal preference with my caravan and my own trips is to get it set up first, properly pitched, water butt filled, waste tank plumbed, stuff normally transported in the car transferred into van, then I can relax for the rest of the day/evening and maybe a beer or glass of wine will make an appearance. Again if refreshment is required mid pitch, bottled water it is. Benefit of a caravan perhaps with it's always ready kitchen, a cup of tea is pretty much always an option as soon as you've stopped rolling, usually just crack on though and drink water until all is pitched properly. Probably only 30 minutes or so between rolling up and being pitched, so no great hardship to wait for a brew.
To be honest, often in a race against darkness after long journeys, so priority with a clear head has to be to set up camp before all else.
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