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Special to find your

Laurier from Québec Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:52:26 +0100

Special to find your comments on tent city. I was there in 76,large army tents, tent for US, tent for Canada etc...great time, meeting people from around the world, Algérie, Australie, Tunisie...good souvenirs, thanks!

Special to find your

Laurier from Québec Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:51:47 +0100

Special to find your comments on tent city. I was there in 76,large army tents, tent for US, tent for Canada etc...great time, meeting peuple from around the world, Algérie, Australie, Tunisie...good souvenirs, thanks!

Special to find your

Laurier from Québec Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:51:39 +0100

Special to find your

Laurier from Québec Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:51:39 +0100

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I met many Italians who were

Louis Mateo — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:52:17 +0200

I met many Italians who were good friends in Tent City. I wont forget this guy who showed my a picture of his Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans and then called his dad just to here the engine run. Ottimo! I was the Philippine guy with the black BMW R/60. I would be glad to hear from anyone who remembers this period . Grazzi tutti

I met many Italians who were

Louis Mateo — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:49:45 +0200

I stayed there in 70 and

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:21:49 +0200

I stayed there in 70 and 71
50 p a night and sandwiches and tee from the mobile vendor
It was lovely. Young people from all over the world.

I stayed there in 70 and

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:21:49 +0200

I stayed there in 70 and 71
50 p a night and sandwiches and tee from the mobile vendor
It was lovely. Young people from all over the world.

I stayed there in 70 and

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:21:49 +0200

I stayed there in 70 and 71
50 p a night and sandwiches and tee from the mobile vendor
It was lovely. Young people from all over the world.

I stayed there in 70 and

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:20:55 +0200

I stayed there in 70 and 71
50 p a night and sandwiches and tee from the mobile vender
It was lovely. Young people from all over the world.

I stayed for about a week in

91 camper — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:41:51 +0100

I stayed for about a week in September of 1991. I remember there was a guy with a tiny cafe under the tracks across the street who hated folks from Tent City and had a sign saying they weren't welcome. I went in there for breakfast and he gave me a dirty look. It was a good deal and tasty so the next day I pressed my luck and returned and he shouted "Are you from the camp!" and I sort of sheepishly said, "no, what's that?" He grumpily served me again. I Imagine he was active in the campaign to close the place.

Hi Felisia, I worked in Tent

Fabio — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:20:04 +0100

Hi Felisia, I worked in Tent City n 1996, Do you came from to Czech Republic?
I remebrer a couple who "work" in acton.
There is special page on facebook "tent city adicted" You know?
Thank' Vermario for this space
Ciao
Fabio

I was in Tent City in 77, 79

roberto — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:54:34 +0200

I was in Tent City in 77, 79 and 85. I remember the days and the weeks I spent there as something really special, maybe the best time in my life. Tent City was a great place, you could spend your time talking and laughing with everyone, listening someone singing every night. I remember people arriving there from everywhere, happy and smiling faces. I worked in London Linen near there, with other people who stayed in TC. I would like to find some more pictures... at that time, I was traveling without camera... but I keep in my heart Tent City and its people...

I there! I was there 1988

edj — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:44:18 +0200

I there!

I was there 1988 too....it was so funny....we came from spain and we were waiting for the donintong festival.....

What a memories....maybe we crossed over there some times...cool

Ode to Tent City London

vermario — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:07:20 +0100

Let's share some travel experience this time!

In 1999 (a loooong time ago!) we went to London. Ryanair was young then, and so it was a bit pricey, but Torino was connected directly and it was summertime! So off we went, and a horrible sandwich and a 30 pound, 30 minutes' train journey after, we were in central London!

We brought tents, and so we ended up in the only camping site in London, the Tent City!

It was basically a field, with and old barrack with (common) showers and a cashier. It was in central london, or maybe just outside the first zone of the subway. The place had been founded by some hippies in the '60s, and it was run by some 90's hippies still!

At night, some music parties (I remember it was the Manu-chau king of the bongo - obsessive summer), lots of alcohol (I was eighteen after all!) and the usual amount of pot smoking you'd expect to find in a summer camp run by and hosted by post-hippies. (i don't smoke, makes me cough)

Some really strange people were staying in the various tiny tents:

- a gay couple, with a 25 years old tall guy, wearing a miniskirt and rollerblades (which we instantly called "giacu fumna" literally "james woman".. don't ask) and a 60 years old professor, wearing some hawaiian shirt- Expecially funny people when dancing on the king of the bongo in the morning.
- a traveling circus, whose components were all black, performing some stunts on bikes, smoking from dawn till dusk, and humiliating us all in the (common) showers... (extreme drop of self esteem)
- assorted guys with black fingernails
- an italian girl working for the organization, which let us go without paying for the last day (she had been sitting in a strange circle while we were packing... so "no need to pay brothers... we're all friends here.."
- a corean guy doing nightshifts at the cashier, normally giving you back all the money you gave him as change when paying...

It was the cheapest possible place in London (except sleeping under bridges).

don't look for it though... the neighborhood had it closed some years ago for night noises and loud music. they were not "all friends there" after all... :D