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Getting home was a nightmare! No PT running, it took me 4 and a half hours to get a taxi back to where I was staying. Which meant I was just waiting out on the street until 4am. When I eventually got a taxi, they told me there was 10 im taxis in the town and were told the festival ‘wasn’t going to be that big.’

I honestly had a brilliant day, but being stranded on the streets for hours was a bit terrifying at times

Can i ask what / how was it poorly organised? Sorry it left you feeling like that :/

I hope you know what you’ve gotten yourself into 😂

It started with just how to get into the venue… google maps told us it was a 20 minute walk but the entrance was so hard to find, with no signs or anybody pointing you in the right direction, that it took us at least 45 min.

We got there after the initial queues had passed, but still fairly early. (The second act was playing when we entered the grounds.)

There were 2 food trucks for (depending on the source) 20-30k people. Two trucks. And two bars that sold only soft drinks and beer. You could buy water at specific places just for that. One merch stand. 12 hammocks that they labeled “chill out area”.

They had talked about having vegan food options etc, but when we arrived there were already several things that were crossed off the menu. We stood in line for 45 min to get some food and when my girlfriend asked if they had anything vegetarian they offered her “onions, some peppers and lettuce in some bread.”

There was a separate line for fries, but the fries were sold at a drinks station so they just told us to cross over and get them since we’d already been in line for almost an hour at that point. Then somebody yelled at us for cutting the line lol

I got a chicken “sandwich” that was literally just a piece of fried chicken and two dry pieces of bread. No condiments, no lettuce, not even a slice of tomato.

So we paid €20 for some watermelon, fries, and a “chicken sandwich” that was so bad I almost cried.

There were a total of 2 trash bins on site I think and they were buried under mounds of rubbish so I’m not sure if there were actual bins or if people just decided for a communal spot.

As far as I know they were pretty good about handing out water and such in the afternoon, though the “free water” they advertised outside of the crowd at the stage wasn’t marked and pretty hard to find.

Before the show started, during “DJ” Carl Baracat or whatever his name was (he literally played the wildest mix of a playlist I’ve ever heard in my life. No mixing or anything. It was weird.)… I realised the heat was getting to me and I was feeling very thirsty so I asked for water from security and they told us they weren’t handing out any water until Louis got on stage. Essentially the message was “I’ll wait until you faint, even though you have time to access your needs right now and you won’t be able to once the main reason you’re all here is on stage”. I did get water half an hour later, during the second song or so.

After Louis’ set it was pretty quick to clear out and we were lucky enough to stay directly in Camaoire but @chaotic-bells has a story to tell about transport back to other towns nearby I think…

Maybe it comes from having worked in event management before, maybe it’s just my general virgo-ness and personality, but there were so many things that would’ve been so easy to solve on part of the venue and security and the organisers that I was just genuinely appalled at the lack of care.

So… I love Louis. I’m glad I was there for this and I got to see my friends. I’m glad I got to see the Blossoms live! They were awesome. The people were genuinely really nice! Louis was amazing as always. We got to hear Paradise and I know @fadeintolight lost her mind about that 😅 I got to hang out with @chickenstuffedwithmozzarella for the first time and it was awesome 🥰

I got to be at the beach with my girlfriend before the festival and then kiss her surrounded by lights. We got to leave our gay message for Louis. All is well in the end.

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Found it interesting that out of ALL OF the 1D songs Louis could’ve sung at the Away From Home fest, and ALL OF the 1D songs he wrote, he chose Where Do Broken Hearts go… but it’s written by Harry and also contains the line ‘so I wrote you a song with the words you spoke’ so does this also mean Louis kind of wrote this song too?

#away from home festival #awful #louis tomlinson #fitf #Harry styles

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Louis backstage at the Away From Home Festival photographed by Joshua Halling

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Louis at Rough Trade East - 05/12

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Have an “unfuckingbelievable” birthday, babe <3 

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Talk dirty to me 1D Day 23 Nov 2013

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these are actually hella fucking cute y'all

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One Direction bond unbreakable, says Tomlinson

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“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

— Unknown

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“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

— Unknown

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there goes the dumbest bitch that this town has ever seen

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A white person learning another language in the United States is a person looking to build a résumé.

A person of color learning English in the United States is a person looking to be treated like a human being.

It is not the same thing.

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when someone tries to argue with you on a subject you obsess over

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Vampires must have the wettest poops because their diet is entirely liquid

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the oft unspoken truth of society is that the line between quirky and cringy is often how conventionally attractive you are

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This has been going around my work and friend group on other platforms, and I thought it deserved a place here too.