Visby photos + rant about packing

[frualeydis]

armillary has put up my photos from Visby medieval week at Nylöse's site.


I especially like the last three photos, called "rivning"; they were taken to prove that you can break camp and still be period. The "enchanted ground" wasn't broken until 9 am and this was about an hour earlier. So we broke camp, had breakfast and then drove the car and trailer into the camp and loaded it. I guess it's unnecessary to say that this was not the way most people did it.

This morning, the last day of the camp, I think it would be a good idea to open it for unperiod things already at 6 am, so people can start packing when they wake up, so I don't really mind car there earlier, we just want to do as well as we can for our own sake.
But, on friday and saturday, to help people who leave earlier, they have allowed people to drive their cars into the camp between 10-12 so they don't have to carry all their stuff. Fine, I can see the need for that. But then one would think that people would try to be s unobtrusive as possible. Pack their stuff inside their tents, then take down the tent and then drive in the car and pack. And when they're finished they would drive away.
Oh no, first you drive your car into the camp. you don't do any packing inside the tent before that. then you start packing, taking down the tent as you go so we get to see a whole week's collection of plastic bottles as well as all their modern stuff, kept in IKEA plastic bags. Then after they have packed, which takes at least two hours since nothing was prepared when they drove in. They leave their car in the camp while taking a shower, eating something dressed in mundanes etc.
OK, not everybody did all this, just the people living closest to us.

I will not rant about the poor german guy living next to us with his family. It is totally understandable that it took him more than the allotted two hours to take down his camp since the packing method of the family was that he did everything while his wife sat on a chair and smoked (no cigarette smoking allowed in camp), his big kids (8 and 13 I think) did nothing or just ran around and the au-pair girl looked after their toddler. This is also how their camp was set up. He was such a nice guy, we felt terribly sorry for him.

Comments

[myralea.livejournal.com]

lovely photos all of them :)

/m

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Good lord. When we broke camp at Pennsic, everyone was breaking camp, and we *still* didn't bring the truck down until the very last minute. I packed garb the night before, and then the bedding, and the entire yurt, contents and all, was just piles of stuff before the truck ever made the scene. Now, our reason for that was that we had to wait till other people's tents were out of the way before we could get near ours, but still... no reason to bring a vehicle in until it's absolutely necessary.

And I feel bad for the German guy, too.

[ginger-dragon.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics! I especially like the one of Maja in a big hat.

People! Why make it easy when you can do it difficult? And be able to inconvenient others in the process? ;-)

[alienor.livejournal.com]

The ex was like that, it drove me crazy. Fortunately, he didn't have a license, so I was in control, but we fought about it almost every time.

I try to be unobtrusive about unpacking, too. Pull up the truck, dump everything into a pile, cover with sheet, remove truck. Set up tent/pavilion/dayshade whatever, everything into that, and then set up from there.

The other reason it bothers me to have people leaving their vehicles around is that there's often a limited amount of space. If you leave your truck there while you set up your pavilion, there's other people waiting who may have to schlep for a long distance! Selfish people!

[seamstrix.livejournal.com]

I second that the picture of Maja in the big hat is just too darn cute for words. You should get a hard copy of that one so that you can embarass her in front of her boyfriend years from now...... ;-)