Been doing a bit of tidying up:
See you tomorrow, fellow pirates, but only through me one good eye!
Spurred on by our efforts to use a tarp to extend the comfy space around our tents while site-camping on holiday, and frustrated by the scarcity of Exped Arc Tarps on the market, yesterday saw the acquisition of a new bit of kit - a Khyam Atrium, which is in the current Yeomans sale at £20 below RRP.
It's a tent extension/porch/canopy affair with webbing straps and an elasticated and toggled drawcord to allow a neat and secure fit over the openings of most small/medium tents, and the poles are adjusted for height/width by means of a tension-band system between the pole-ends. If that's not enough versatility, the "middle" pole is adjustable in length so that you can get the height/width just as you want it. There are plenty of guying and pegging options, and, as you can see, there's plenty of room under it:
2 pics above: width = 3.5m, height = 1.5m
2 pics above: width = 2.8m, height = 1.8m
Above: pole-end spacing = 1.5m
Above: elasticated and toggled drawcord etc..
Above: length-adjustable pole.
Specs from the Khyam website:
Poles: Fibreglass - 9.5mm
Flysheet: Polyester 185T - 68D / 5000mm - Flame-Retardant - Taped seams
Height: Adjustable
Weight: 3.9kg
Dimensions: As the Atrium is fully adjustable it is not possible to list or show all dimensions.
Packed size: 64x12x12cms
Colour Options: Castle Rock / Paloma
Those crinkly rings in the previous post have quite a few uses:
They're currently on offer at Lakeland.
... can it be true? That I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest Green?
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The next morning we packed away the gear for the last time, and prepped for the 40-mile drive across to Esbjerg to catch the ferry back to Harwich. We had plenty of time, so after finding the ferry terminal we drove northwards out of town to find a quiet spot for some lunch. We ended up sharing the beach with these characters:
We spent a few hours walking the strand-line, paddling and getting sand in our shoes:
Back at the car-park, Chris gave Anna her first driving-lesson. Luckily, I still had the keys in my pocket 🙂
While shopping for food, we found this place. Quite apt, I thought:
After boarding the ferry, it was time to go see the sights from the deck. There were seals on several of the sandbanks:
and we got a bit close to this Meccano monster:
There was to be a partial lunar eclipse visible on the port side that night, so I spent some time trying to get some pics of it, but it wasn't easy without the tripod. Here's a pic taken just after the eclipse started, there's a hint of penumbra at the lower-left:
The view from the starboard side featured gathering clouds against the fading light - a sure sign that we were England-bound:
And that was that. The next morning we docked at Harwich, got through Customs and made our way up to Norwich to visit some of Chris' (recently-extended) family for dinner and to catch up on the gossip.
Late in the evening, after the final car-journey of the holiday, we arrived home...
knackered.
You'll be pleased to know that there'll be no blow-by-blow text account of our day out at Legoland Billund.
It's too much hassle to display all of the snaps in this one post, but if you click the following pic you can click through the lot using the "Shutter Reloaded" lightbox.
