Back in the land...
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liadethorneggeThe land of hot showers, hotter tea, warm cuddly bathrobes, comfortable furniture, chairs with correct seat-height and a backrest (ie the wall) to my bed whereupon I can lounge.
I've gotten very little sleep, got up at ten yesterday morning after about 8 hours of sleep. Had breakfast and started packing and tear-down. Some strategy later we removed an irritant and the trailer was packed by about five when we had fast-food on the last remaining piece of the Aros encampment: a table surrounded by a stool for the four of us. The fifth person in the car met a girl and went gallivanting in town all day - we only met up with him in the line to get on to the ferry.
Anyway, after five it was the matter of wasting eight or so hours. Myself and Elisabeth wandered around the market, bought four metres of lovely quality blue wool - mine for a looser style 15th surcoat for easy pull-on garb in the mornings as well as for warmth in the evenings. It's gorgeous wool.
Spent more money that last day than the rest of the week put together! As usual. It's now the second time I've come back from Visby with four metres of lovely wool to use for garb - I think that makes it an established tradition. I also persuaded Elisabeth that she needed to buy an equal cut for herself to make a landsknecht dress out of. That'll be gorgeous too.
Anyway, we made the ferry without having to stress or speed like we did on the passage to Visby, and I got about half an hour to an hour of sleep on the ferry itself. Right now I have taken a shower, made and drank a pot of tea and have downloaded the remaining pictures that were left in the camera. The pictures from before Friday and Saturday have all been transferred to Arend's laptop. He's lending me the space there and will burn me a CD of the images to keep. Don't know when that transfer will take place, but until then I probably won't post any pictures, except a few nice shots of me in the doublet bodice kirtle.
Surprisingly, and thankfully, my mailbox was not overflowing - I attribute it to Pennsic siphoning off the more prolific posters to the various lists I am on.
I'll make an attempt at keeping awake to an early bedtime tonight so I won't start the week by flipping sleeping patterns.
Speaking of sleeping, I slept most comfortably in the pavillion. Yes, it did rain on me on the first night with the HEAVY raining, but I moved the bed and pulled Elisabeth's wool cloak over myself and snoozed on without getting wet. Damp, but not wet. That was the night between Monday and Tuesday and we were both awakened at around 4.30 by no longer just drops, but a stream of water smattering down on the tarp we used as flooring. Crapola. Slight tent-failure. We may also have put it up not-perfectly which meant some sagging and thus excaserbated the problem of leakage. Also, the tent-stakes were not as solidly places as we could have wished. Still the pavillion was Very roomy, and our clothes, hung off a rack we brought, never got wet at all. However, after that night of rain all my stuff was slightly damp throughout.
I am so going for more wool next camping event. I'm considering getting a woolen set of tights/shirt to use as pyjamas for just these kinds of things. Cotton is nice, but when it gets damp it is not really very warming. Also, since this is the first event I go to without my big warm wool cloak (the one I sold at Double Wars) this is the first event where I really could have used it. I had to borrow Elisabeth's cloak to cover myself in wool during the night which worked - admittedly - but was one of those "Tsch, typical"-moments.
In itself the air was not very cold though - not when I had my garb on with the layers. Yes, I would have been a bit more comfortable with a surcote and a ropa to put on very late at night, but most of the time, pulling on my long-johns underneath and keeping headgear on, plus sleeves I kept quite warm for as long as I was inclined to stay up and about.
Don't really know what I did with my time, but I never really got a proper chat with Aleydis, we mostly bounced off each other going somewhere else, and yesterday when we had packed our stuff I did get to sit down for a bit, but not very long as we wanted to get down to a last look at the market.
Visby is a very nice event, in all, but I still prefer Double Wars. I'll aim at making that next year and possibly skipping over Visby altogether. At least make my sample more statistically sound (2 tries at Visby, 1 at DW so far is not a large selection).
More will possibly follow.
I've gotten very little sleep, got up at ten yesterday morning after about 8 hours of sleep. Had breakfast and started packing and tear-down. Some strategy later we removed an irritant and the trailer was packed by about five when we had fast-food on the last remaining piece of the Aros encampment: a table surrounded by a stool for the four of us. The fifth person in the car met a girl and went gallivanting in town all day - we only met up with him in the line to get on to the ferry.
Anyway, after five it was the matter of wasting eight or so hours. Myself and Elisabeth wandered around the market, bought four metres of lovely quality blue wool - mine for a looser style 15th surcoat for easy pull-on garb in the mornings as well as for warmth in the evenings. It's gorgeous wool.
Spent more money that last day than the rest of the week put together! As usual. It's now the second time I've come back from Visby with four metres of lovely wool to use for garb - I think that makes it an established tradition. I also persuaded Elisabeth that she needed to buy an equal cut for herself to make a landsknecht dress out of. That'll be gorgeous too.
Anyway, we made the ferry without having to stress or speed like we did on the passage to Visby, and I got about half an hour to an hour of sleep on the ferry itself. Right now I have taken a shower, made and drank a pot of tea and have downloaded the remaining pictures that were left in the camera. The pictures from before Friday and Saturday have all been transferred to Arend's laptop. He's lending me the space there and will burn me a CD of the images to keep. Don't know when that transfer will take place, but until then I probably won't post any pictures, except a few nice shots of me in the doublet bodice kirtle.
Surprisingly, and thankfully, my mailbox was not overflowing - I attribute it to Pennsic siphoning off the more prolific posters to the various lists I am on.
I'll make an attempt at keeping awake to an early bedtime tonight so I won't start the week by flipping sleeping patterns.
Speaking of sleeping, I slept most comfortably in the pavillion. Yes, it did rain on me on the first night with the HEAVY raining, but I moved the bed and pulled Elisabeth's wool cloak over myself and snoozed on without getting wet. Damp, but not wet. That was the night between Monday and Tuesday and we were both awakened at around 4.30 by no longer just drops, but a stream of water smattering down on the tarp we used as flooring. Crapola. Slight tent-failure. We may also have put it up not-perfectly which meant some sagging and thus excaserbated the problem of leakage. Also, the tent-stakes were not as solidly places as we could have wished. Still the pavillion was Very roomy, and our clothes, hung off a rack we brought, never got wet at all. However, after that night of rain all my stuff was slightly damp throughout.
I am so going for more wool next camping event. I'm considering getting a woolen set of tights/shirt to use as pyjamas for just these kinds of things. Cotton is nice, but when it gets damp it is not really very warming. Also, since this is the first event I go to without my big warm wool cloak (the one I sold at Double Wars) this is the first event where I really could have used it. I had to borrow Elisabeth's cloak to cover myself in wool during the night which worked - admittedly - but was one of those "Tsch, typical"-moments.
In itself the air was not very cold though - not when I had my garb on with the layers. Yes, I would have been a bit more comfortable with a surcote and a ropa to put on very late at night, but most of the time, pulling on my long-johns underneath and keeping headgear on, plus sleeves I kept quite warm for as long as I was inclined to stay up and about.
Don't really know what I did with my time, but I never really got a proper chat with Aleydis, we mostly bounced off each other going somewhere else, and yesterday when we had packed our stuff I did get to sit down for a bit, but not very long as we wanted to get down to a last look at the market.
Visby is a very nice event, in all, but I still prefer Double Wars. I'll aim at making that next year and possibly skipping over Visby altogether. At least make my sample more statistically sound (2 tries at Visby, 1 at DW so far is not a large selection).
More will possibly follow.
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