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My friend and I are going to Reading Festival this year, and as it is our first year we're not really sure where to camp. I know that yellow is the wildest site, and white is the quietest, but we would like a balance between the two, and as a result of this are not sure which of the others to camp in!
As we are two 16 year old camping by ourselves (however we will be meeting up with other people during the festival) is there a safer place to camp?
And how safe is it to keep stuff in our tents? It won't be valuables or anything, just clothes, food, sleeping bags etc?
Thanks :)
Answer
Your choice...yellow or white...decision time...O the agony, haha.
For a first time festival it's best to err on the safe side...choose the quiet one....but it's your choice.
Only take to festivals what you can afford to lose or get ruined. No festivals are totally safe, and some are bad for getting stuff lost. Reading is a bit wild at times. Good area though and the river Thames is great at Reading. You'll see the festival posters hung from the bridges right across the river.
You'd be best to play safe with any festival you go to. Take a money belt for your cash, tickets, and other valuable stuff.
Put your SIM card into an old phone and take that one. Get a cheap MP3, download some tracks onto it, and leave the best one with your favourite tracks on at home. Take a cheap camera and plenty of films or SD cards.
That way the good stuff is safe at home.
Take clothes that you don't mind getting messed up a bit.
You can make a tent more secure by putting an extra cover over it and pegging it down all round when you leave the tent for a long time.
An extra cover also means your tent is totally waterproof and is warmer at night.
You can buy a groundsheet from Aldi, Homebase, B&Q etc. Put one under the tent to keep the base of the tent clean and dry, and one over it for good waterproofing and to use as a security cover. The one under the tent gets tucked in all the way round so water runs off the tent to the outside of it, not on it.
Tesco and Millets have tent pegs. Get good ones, not the cheap short ones.
Buy some for the tent as well. The supplied pegs are rarely any good even with expensive tents. Good pegs make a lot of difference to how well your tent puts up with the wind and rain. You need good strong anchors for the guy lines to keep the tent material taut, and then the tent will perform far better.
Dome tents are not easy to cover but it can be done, though not neatly.
Ridge tents and tunnel tents work far better for covering, and tunnel tents have the most room for the bulk and weight of the tent.
It's best to have at least a 4-person tent because they are built bigger and with more headroom. You will be much more comfortable than in a little 2-person tent.
Millets and Tesco both have decent 4-person tents on sale very cheaply....around £30 -40.
With a groundsheet for a cover they will be just as waterproof as a £300 tent.
Have a good time and remember the less stuff you have with you the less there is to worry about.
Enjoy the festival without worries....that's the good way to do it.
Have fun
Here's the same tent and other advice with some links
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100727084612AAGzKR1 . . . . . .
Your choice...yellow or white...decision time...O the agony, haha.
For a first time festival it's best to err on the safe side...choose the quiet one....but it's your choice.
Only take to festivals what you can afford to lose or get ruined. No festivals are totally safe, and some are bad for getting stuff lost. Reading is a bit wild at times. Good area though and the river Thames is great at Reading. You'll see the festival posters hung from the bridges right across the river.
You'd be best to play safe with any festival you go to. Take a money belt for your cash, tickets, and other valuable stuff.
Put your SIM card into an old phone and take that one. Get a cheap MP3, download some tracks onto it, and leave the best one with your favourite tracks on at home. Take a cheap camera and plenty of films or SD cards.
That way the good stuff is safe at home.
Take clothes that you don't mind getting messed up a bit.
You can make a tent more secure by putting an extra cover over it and pegging it down all round when you leave the tent for a long time.
An extra cover also means your tent is totally waterproof and is warmer at night.
You can buy a groundsheet from Aldi, Homebase, B&Q etc. Put one under the tent to keep the base of the tent clean and dry, and one over it for good waterproofing and to use as a security cover. The one under the tent gets tucked in all the way round so water runs off the tent to the outside of it, not on it.
Tesco and Millets have tent pegs. Get good ones, not the cheap short ones.
Buy some for the tent as well. The supplied pegs are rarely any good even with expensive tents. Good pegs make a lot of difference to how well your tent puts up with the wind and rain. You need good strong anchors for the guy lines to keep the tent material taut, and then the tent will perform far better.
Dome tents are not easy to cover but it can be done, though not neatly.
Ridge tents and tunnel tents work far better for covering, and tunnel tents have the most room for the bulk and weight of the tent.
It's best to have at least a 4-person tent because they are built bigger and with more headroom. You will be much more comfortable than in a little 2-person tent.
Millets and Tesco both have decent 4-person tents on sale very cheaply....around £30 -40.
With a groundsheet for a cover they will be just as waterproof as a £300 tent.
Have a good time and remember the less stuff you have with you the less there is to worry about.
Enjoy the festival without worries....that's the good way to do it.
Have fun
Here's the same tent and other advice with some links
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100727084612AAGzKR1 . . . . . .
What's the cheapest way to get ferry's and coaches around europe?
amazondebs
I'm a student and me and some of my friends are going to go round europe for a few weeks, camping in various places, whats the cheapest way to do this and I mean really cheap. We're literally just taking a tent and some clothing with us.
Answer
Early booking for the coach companies, Eurolines is most often mentioned: http://www.eurolines.com/
In the UK you can also use Megabus, can only be booked online:
http://uk.megabus.com/default.aspx
Other countries may also have cheap coach companies, but not in all countries the bus is the best option. I think you should try google for more companies.
Within France, the Netherlands and Belgium you will not find many or even any cheap coach options, but between these countries and from them to the rest of Europe you will find cheap bus/coach travel.
In some countries the train can be almost as cheap and have more options. In Germany there are special tickets for people traveling together on the slow trains, very cheap but not fast. More flexible than the bus though:
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol=http:&
A good site for train info is: http://www.seat61.com/
'Remember that farther east is mostly cheaper, as soon as you are beyond Germany, Switzerland and Austria and Italy.
Countryside and small towns are cheaper than capital cities, certainly when camping.
If you are from the UK you might be able to get a cheap flight to Eastern Europe for less than you would pay on the ferry to the continent.
http://www.skyscanner.net/ or a site like it.
If this is not cheap enough yet, you can try organized hitchhiking, this is a German site, there are more, Google can help you out: http://www.mitfahrzentrale.de/index.php?landnr=D&lang=GB
And in case you hit the bad weather jackpot, couch surfing:
http://www.couchsurfing.org/ or http://www.hospitalityclub.org/ and again there are more sites to be found.
Early booking for the coach companies, Eurolines is most often mentioned: http://www.eurolines.com/
In the UK you can also use Megabus, can only be booked online:
http://uk.megabus.com/default.aspx
Other countries may also have cheap coach companies, but not in all countries the bus is the best option. I think you should try google for more companies.
Within France, the Netherlands and Belgium you will not find many or even any cheap coach options, but between these countries and from them to the rest of Europe you will find cheap bus/coach travel.
In some countries the train can be almost as cheap and have more options. In Germany there are special tickets for people traveling together on the slow trains, very cheap but not fast. More flexible than the bus though:
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol=http:&
A good site for train info is: http://www.seat61.com/
'Remember that farther east is mostly cheaper, as soon as you are beyond Germany, Switzerland and Austria and Italy.
Countryside and small towns are cheaper than capital cities, certainly when camping.
If you are from the UK you might be able to get a cheap flight to Eastern Europe for less than you would pay on the ferry to the continent.
http://www.skyscanner.net/ or a site like it.
If this is not cheap enough yet, you can try organized hitchhiking, this is a German site, there are more, Google can help you out: http://www.mitfahrzentrale.de/index.php?landnr=D&lang=GB
And in case you hit the bad weather jackpot, couch surfing:
http://www.couchsurfing.org/ or http://www.hospitalityclub.org/ and again there are more sites to be found.
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