Cropredy

Our 5! man tent. I think they were exaggerating a bit, as 3 would be more like it.

More pictures from Cropredy are on my web gallery. Cropredy Web Gallery

Kirsten and I spent the last weekend, a long one :-) at the Cropredy music festival. Our friend Stu invited us, and Kirsten wanted to experience camping (sleeping in a tent etc.) as she’d never done that before.

I must admit I didn’t know what to expect. I’d been to a music festival before many years ago(1999 I think!). This was completely different. For starters it was quite a small festival, only 20,000 people. Next, the campsite organisation was great. You parked up in a field and pitched your tent next the car, so no lugging all the gear a few miles from the car park to the camping area. The facilities were amazing for what was a farmers field for 51 weeks of the year. Portacabin style toilets with hot and cold running water, which were checked and cleaned every hour or so, and shower units if you didn’t mind queuing for hours, and a mobile cash dispenser.

We met up with some of Stu’s friends from blogging and geocaching, and set up our tents in a group with a central seating area. They were lovely people and really generous with food and beer. We had home-made lamb burgers, a whole roast chicken and a sausage hot pot. Put our soup tins and pot noodles to shame...

The music... well it was Folk. I wasn’t sure about this before I got there, it’s not like my iTunes library contains any. But, I actually liked it as it was proper musicians playing real instruments. There is something about a guitar and a fiddle (violin). We didn’t see all the acts only the ones in the evening, as it was too sunny to sit in a open field all afternoon.

There was only one stage, so it was easy, just find a spot and stay there. The village of Cropredy gets into to the whole event, and the two pubs have fringe music festivals. We spent a few hours at ‘The Red Lion’ on the Friday, drinking, eating, and listening to some Blues.

Think we might go again next year...