All Eventualities
I’m about packed and set for my flight to Hovefestivalen in Norway. It’s going to be a week of music, new people, messing about and hopefully lots of fun. Through some amazing contacts I was able to secure a free ticket, meaning that I needed to get my now-redundant ticket sold. Luckily I’ve received news that someone was interested in buying it for slightly less than market price, which suits me fine. After all, I was prepared to pay full price for the thing.
I can’t say I haven’t been apprehensive about how my scrounged, improvised and generic equipment is going to compare to the gear seemingly all Norwegians are endowed with. After all, I originally came to London with just a suitcase and another bag and, though the clutter has piled up since then, I’m no mountaineer or explorer. I’ve been checking the weather report warily several times a day, and if it doesn’t absolutely piss down with rain I can see myself managing – assuming the tent holds water.
I’m leaving the house at seven in the morning, which I realised is the earliest I’ve been up for like a year. Days in a student’s life in London start no earlier than nine. Not that I mind – I was just noting the fact. I’m taking the bus to Liverpool Street and since I splashed out on tickets for the Stansted Express train, I’ll enjoy a nice 45 minute train ride to the airport. For some reason I’m more nervous than usual about traveling. Usually I’m just excited to get going again. It’s my first ever flight with Ryanair, maybe that’s got something to do with it. Maybe I just can’t subconsciously accept that a free flight will actually carry me all the way or something.
I don’t know how contactable I’ll be over the next week. If you absolutely need to get in touch with me, I’ll have my Finnish phone with me (as my English phone doesn’t seem to like roaming). I guess you can expect a load of photos and rambling once I get back. I’ve got a notebook with me, and I’ve planned on scribbling inane journal-type things in it over the course of the next 7 days.
To those that celebrate Midsummer: Hope you have a great time and the weather favours whatever you do.
June 22nd, 2008 at 21:16
That’s my tent you are talking about… And I’ll have you know, that she’s never been good at keeping the rain out, ever…
But as long as you have the actual rain covering done up right, and don’t have it where trees and stuff will poke at it, and never, ever poke the inside with anything… You should be fine.
Just remember, raining means humidity, and tents are really good at making outside-weather into inside-weather…
June 30th, 2008 at 22:18
True, it was your tent I was talking about. And you may be interested in knowing that it was fine. I didn’t do too much poking around inside, but then again it only rained on 2 nights.
Where have you used the thing anyway? It seems brand new.
July 8th, 2008 at 16:52
Its been used all over… quite a bit, doing scouts. And in Finland doing scouts that one summer. And then on two trips with school… And then its been used with relatives a few times. But probably under 50 nights spent in it, I’d guess.
And it seems brand new, because I take care of my stuff, see?