Does the tent come with home insurance?

(Author: Sarah Maple | Article Views: 9 | Word Count: 505 | Published: Sep 19th 2008)

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This summer festivals seem more fashionable than ever. The whole point of being at a festival used to be that you could escape reality and forget about being fashionable, just letting your hippy self loose for the short time you were there. It did not matter if you got covered in mud because you would be wearing your old clothes, your wellies and a big shapeless waterproof.

Today it is a whole different story. Lots of thought goes into what you pack for a festival these days. The juxtaposition of scruffiness and glamour has produced a whole new look in itself...you want the ‘festival look’ without looking like you have tried too hard.

The dilemmas of what to take to a festival in a field that ensures you fit the bill of being effortlessly cool and fashionable, comfy and weatherproof (sun or rain) is one that feels almost unfair. It’s alright for the thoughtless celebrities like Kate Moss who made dressing for festivals de rigeur. She doesn’t have to sleep in a tent, probably gets a shower every day and can afford to chop floor length gold gowns at the buttocks and team it with a £400 belt. Scruffy chic, yeah whatever!

In fact I took this quote from www.catwalkqueen.tv/2007/06/girls_pay_500_t.html just to prove my point.

“In a survey conducted by Freeview it was revealed that a third of people bought new clothes and posh tents to take with them, while 27% of people confessed to spending about £500 on a festival weekend.”

I find that my problem is trying to resist packing my whole house into my (massive) back pack. I hate camping in the rain because the wetter it is, the more stuff you need. Two of everything in case the other gets wet, waterproofs, umbrellas, wet wipes for yourself and your wellies, a bigger towel (or two), socks…you get the picture.

This year I am tempted to hire a podpad instead of bothering with a tent. A podpad for those of you who are not familiar with new festival accommodation is a wooden house made by slotting together bits of treated wood. It is tall enough for you to stand up in and even has raised beds a light and a shelf inside. There are cute little windows and a lock on the door, hell it probably comes with home insurance. Now that’s my kind of festival accommodation!

There are so many festivals now I never know which one to choose. I am not loyal to any of them, the sort of person that likes to keep their options open if you like. There is Glastonbury the daddy of all festivals, the Secret Garden Party, V Festival, the Isle of White Festival, Bestival, ‘breath’ the list goes on. I feel as though I have so much choice that I am bound to choose the wrong one.

The grass is always greener on the other festival site or so the saying goes.

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