As you know, the festival season is fast approaching and every festival junkie is almost wetting themselves with excitement. Us included!
The best weekend of the year, the one you look forward to all year round, the weekend that you can’t remember but are certain you had the time of your life, it’s all nigh upon us.
As with every positive there is always a negative. The hangover, the expense and not to mention the ruined clothes. For me it’s all the bloody queing and traffic jams. What a nightmare.
A few years ago at V festival in Stafford I decided to try my luck and come off the designated route and go round the traffic. Was it risky? A bit, yeah, since I didn’t know exactly where I was going. Could it have made my journey even longer? Potentially, but as Del Boy once said, “He who dares, Rodders, he who dares.”
I’m glad to say it paid off. We missed most of the traffic. Shame the hangover didn’t leave so quickly too.
The road they tell you you must stay on, guess what? You don’t actually have to. There is always one road somewhere running more or less adjacent to the one that you are on. So before you go to the festival take a map, sat nav or whatever you can lay your hands on and be a bit daring and leave the road when you find traffic and try and go round it, it amazes me why more people don’t do it.
I guess it’s the sheep following the shepherd effect. Baah!
I’ve saved hours in traffic at most festivals by doing this. However I do feel as though I should insert some sort of disclaimer here: if it doesn’t work (always has for me) then please don’t sue me!
Hopefully by the end of the festvial you would not remember anyway.
Just a little post about what hydrostatic head value means and why it’s important to consider it when purchasing a tent. In simple terms it’s how much water the tent can withhold. Rain resistance is measured as a hydrostatic head in millimeters (mm). This indicates the pressure of water needed to penetrate the fabric. There are lots of factors to consider when making sure your tent is going to be waterproof, not just the HH. The quality of the tent for example, if the seems are not stitched well then it would let rain in. Another factor to check is that your tent is double skinned because no matter what the HH, if it’s single skinned then you will have trouble keeping the water out. As a general rule a HH of 1500 mm on a well-made tent should be fully waterproof for most weather conditions.
Cinch! pop up tents are double skinned and have been tested to 3000 mm and will handle all the dodgy weather that we experience all too often. Hope you found this helpful.
Just a quick post about Glastonbury tickets. As you are probably fully aware they have all sold out but due to the Deposit and Pay-Later scheme there will be some made available at 9am on Sunday 17th April.
If you’re still wanting to go but missed out first time around then click here where it gives all the info you need. If you manage to get hold of them then the following clip is very apt.
Thanks for checking out our first ever blog post. We are starting the blog to promote our brand Cinch Pop up Tents but we believe in doing things properly here and if you’re doing a blog then we might as well make it purposeful. We are festival junkies here at Cinch! so decided this is what the blog should revolve around.
In the coming weeks and months we will be blogging on festivals in the UK and around the world. Sharing our tips and advice, finding hidden gems on the festival scene and talking about the music at up and coming events…. anything goes really!
It would help massively to have some content from readers as you guys collectively know more than we ever could so let’s share our knowledge and make this every festival goer’s must read blog. From letting people know what toilet to use at V fest to which one to avoid at Glasto, let’s share. Here’s a little clip of why we love festivals. Speak soon!
