{"id":17345,"date":"2015-08-24T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=17345"},"modified":"2015-08-25T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T23:44:10","slug":"oppikoppi-21-fantastic-mr-vos-vos-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/oppikoppi-21-fantastic-mr-vos-vos-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppikoppi 21: Fantastic Mr Vos Vos Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday
\n8 August
\n2015<\/div>\n

As mildly traumatic\u00a0as it is waking up in 5 layers of clothes\u00a0in a state of humid confusion surrounded by a tent<\/a> and the nonsensical conversations of your neighbours outside, there’s something reassuring about\u00a0the situation: you know you could only be at a music festival<\/a>, you somehow managed to get some sleep and that the sun is\u00a0now up and it’s time you were too.<\/p>\n

My Saturday at Oppikoppi<\/a> went a little like this…<\/p>\n

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Any day’s gotta be a good one if it starts with a marching regiment of pipers and drummers<\/a> – these guys were great, appearing somewhere out of the depths of Mordor and stopping near the entrance to the festival<\/a> area where they performed a bunch of traditional (“the band will now play\u00a0The Flower of Scotland<\/em>“) and not-so-traditional (“the band will now play\u00a0the\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em> theme”) songs to the delight of the general bystanders.<\/p>\n

Afterwards I took a short walk around the outskirts of Mordor – unfortunately\u00a0I didn’t have time to explore further (and if I had I might’ve seen the legendary naked run)…even the little bit I saw was enough to grant its hardcore inhabitants massive respect in my book – I couldn’t survive out there for 4 days and frankly don’t know how they do it year after year…they make em tough up north, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

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