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26/7/2011 at 9:19am
Location: Beautiful Warwickshire
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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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26/7/2011 at 9:37am
Location: sheffield
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Great photos, dont think I would enjoy camping like this the only festival we do is Twinwood and this is much more regimented not thrown up like the above.
Thats a very sloping field must be like sleeping on a slide.
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Twinwood festival, august bank holiday
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26/7/2011 at 10:05am
Location: Essex
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Great photos!!!
Thats loads of room compared to V festival!! u get 6mm there!
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26/7/2011 at 12:01pm
Location: s.wales
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not my idea of fun to be honest. that really has to be dangerous with everyone so close together surely.
and seeing them all together makes the bell tents look not quite as exclusive as beforehand(though still very nice)
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tent and gear all packed away now and making plans for 2012
plans so far..
Easter..Nantcols
August..Bristol balloon fiesta
August..Cornwall..of course!
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26/7/2011 at 1:41pm
Location: Stratford Upon Avon
Outfit: 5m bell tent
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Looks like fun to me :) Think I'd need to decorate my bell tent to avoid blundering into the wrong one!!
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26/7/2011 at 3:04pm
Location: Buckinghamshire
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Love the horses, trust SC to photograph a woman in skin-tightjeans[:)].The site is just crazy, love the purple and lime tent would fit right in with my accessories.
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27/7/2011 at 8:31am
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Wow but not my idea of fun, can't stand close neighbours lol. Great bell tents and tipis though.
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27/7/2011 at 11:09pm
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Aw, I know those horses! My little boy had his first horsie ride on one bareback, happy days :)
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28/7/2011 at 12:40pm
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That women carrying all her gear up the hill looks Knackered. I fancied doing a festival until I saw these pics. Think I will stick to a nice quiet field and a bit of abba on my ipod.
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Camping is like playing with dolls houses for big girls!
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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.
