By: Blonde Two
Blonde One and I have long been the victims of tent photo envy. This is a tricky to cure condition in which the sufferer observes other people’s night time tent photos and then fails to recreate that ‘glowing tent’ look.
Well… for one night only, we were both absolutely certain that we have the best lit tent on Dartmoor!
We were out filming for Channel 4 (as you do) and, as the light dropped, the crew started to use a pair of very snazzy (and large) lights, one outside and one inside the tent. We were thrilled with the effect these gave and took lots of photos. We were even more thrilled when it was suggested that we could keep one of the lights overnight. Never has a tent felt so cosy or Blondes looked so well lit in their sleeping bags. We felt truly spoiled and spent a lot of time messing around with our temporary toy.
The light-fantastic element of the evening was capped by a stunning ‘fireworks display’, kindly organised for us by the Army on the hill opposite.
If you want to make sure that you don’t wander accidentally into Army live firing on Dartmoor, you might want to read this!
From my round the Welsh boundary walk journal; I was staying at: St. Govan;s Country Inn, Bosherston;
SATURDAY, 11 JUNE 2011
Welsh Boundary Walk – Bosherston to Pembroke
Friday 10th June – day 52
Well, last night I had my own firework display from the hotel window. Bosherston is situated next to a military firing range and there was a big exercise progressing until about 11:00pm with different coloured tracers tearing across the sky with intermittent whizzes bangs and crashes – all very entertaining.