{"id":892,"date":"2024-07-29T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vikingsof.me\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:59:36","slug":"reenacting-surviving-camp-and-work-life-balance-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vikingsof.me\/blog\/reenacting-surviving-camp-and-work-life-balance-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Reenacting: Surviving Camp and Work Life Balance. July."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome readers far and wide to your “Reenacting: Surviving Camp” edition of “A Year in the Life of a Viking Re-Enactor.” Now the summer is in full swing and we are waiting for the sun to make its brief annual appearance, camping trips are in motion across all of England with families and reenactment groups alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suns out Camps Up!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some of you may be seasoned camping reenactors or even regular campers in a none reenactment setting. Whatever your camping level of experience there is sure to be something of interest to you here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camping Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I was starting out in Viking reenactment some 9 years ago this web link<\/a> was very helpful. I came to the camping experience as a total beginner. I wish I had read a “Reenacting: Surviving Camp” guide back then \u2013 my first camp was on a flood plain during an exceptionally wet spring. I cannot convey the learning curve that took me on, but I’ll cover that story at another time. Of course the best teacher is experience namely my own and that is where this article is written from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kori’s Camping Considerations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Editor: These tips are focused mostly on the modern forms of camping \u2013 there are two schools of reenacting one where we are ‘on’ during the day for the public, but are otherwise modern people, doing modern things, and two, immersive reenacting where you try to live as far as possible like a historical person. This mostly covers the former.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n