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26/7/2011 at 9:19am
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Here are a few pictures of 'camping under canvas' at Port Eliot Festival on the weekend of 23/24 July.
Port Eliot is three-day event at a Cornish stately home and it combines a traditional music festival with a literary festival. So it's much more Glyndebourne than Glasto and the audience has more than its fair share of well-healed Guardianistas and posh lefties. That goes some way to explaining the high ratio of bell tents, tipis, yurts and classic Airstream trailers at the event.
Firstly, a few photos of the bell tent brigade (below):
There are also pre-erected tipis for those who want to rent them (below).
At Port Eliot, festival-goers leave their vehicles in the carpark so most have to lug their camping gear and belongings to the camp site. However, for people with disabilities or mobility issues, the organisers lay on this horse-drawn wagon to move stuff from car to pitch (below).
Some of the campsites are level but most areas slope steeply as the two photos below show.
Finally, a general shot across one of the campsites (below). As at many other festivals, tents are crowded together - no question here of six-metre separation nor, in most cases, even six feet.
PS: As a personal observation (and this applies to virtually all the festivals I've been to), I think this overcrowding presents a potential fire hazard. Also, the close-packed tents with their criss-crossed guylines would seriously impeded emergency evacuation at night. Yet most festival campsites are like this.
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. The rest of the pics are pretty good too Scep. I'm sure the festival is great but I couldn't camp like that. As you say, potentially a real hazard to safety if something goes wrong.
