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Published: July 13th 2005
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Me in the luggage tent
At the Soca Reggae Riversplash in Tolmin For my last days in Slovenia, I chose to join the very famous and highly spoken of Soca Reggae Riversplash festival in Tolmin.
I went with three friends, two tents, four sleeping bags, one sleeping matt and lot's of energy. We hitch hiked from Ljubljana in couples, and my hitch hiking partner and I came on quite some travel, including a small detour to Lotarec, a stop and confusion in Idrija, ending in a coffee and finally a ride with two guys, who where desperate for some jointpaper.
First view of the camp
When I finally arrived the tents where already put up and I could as soon as I saw our little camp surely notice the greater problem. One of the tents looked as if it was bought in a jokeshop. Still laughing about the tent we decided to sleep four people in the other two-persons tent and keep all our bagpacks in what we from then on would refer to as the luggage-tent. Unfortunatly, that night it started raining heavily and the thunder seemed just next to our tent. It would have been wonderful to listen to if not the concern for the other tent. A concern
which the next day seemed rightful. The luggage was dripping with water and the tent was a swimmingpool.
Even though I come from Denmark and think that a festival ain't a real festival without a mudbath, I believe this to be a little too much for me. We were like drowned mice! The next couple of days the wheather changed a bit and our luggage-tent seemed to be stronger than we had first thought! So the rest of the festival went by without any more concern for our bagpacks.
Seperated toilets, Slovene mentality and camping feelings!
The festival itself was rather funny to experience. I have never before been at a festival where there are signs on the toilets making them out to be for men or women, and the most amazing fact was that the Slovenes actually kept that rule. All the toilets with a man figured infront could be free and still there would stand a line of girls waiting for the occupied toilets with a woman figured infront.
Most of the festival seemed more like quiet camping though with an extreme high rate of joints circulating. Nothing extraordinary was happening, no funny stories to tell
Dubioza Kolektiv at Soca
At the Soca Reggae Riversplash in Tolmin later. It was like the festival feeling never really came. Maybe because of the first nights heavy rain or maybe because Slovenes just don't know what to do at a festival. I will leave that question to be further disgused by others!
But what about the music!
The bands playing will be my last saying about the Soca Reggae Riversplash. There where some really great bands and this comes from a girl who doesn't know much more than the name Bob Marley, when it comes to the reggae-genre. I saw Israel Vibration, a fantastic Jamaican band so old that they had to use walking sticks, but still so energetic, that they made the crowd cry for more. I also experienced a french guy saying "merci to you, you, you, you..." for half an hour to the approximately 20 people present! And a Bosnian Rastafari band calling themself Dubioza Kolektiv I believe. They where great, and, according to a friend of mine, on their way up! Many other bands played too, some good some bad, but all in all great to experience!
This was my minifestival in Tolmin! And I'm sure I shall often recall it on other festivals when the pissed-all-over-fenches and over-shitted-toilets get to much.
Anna
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