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.

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[myralea.livejournal.com]

lovely photos all of them :)

/m