Camping in Kilkenny at the CAMPHUB

More on the continuing saga ...mostly for fun. I am still discussing with Visa and CampHub. I hope they get the joke...even though it was not a joke...or wait a minute ..trying to stay there was a joke....here is the CampHub address I used because 1 phone number out of the 2 did not answer .. camphub@it_is_joke.com.

I will put a few fun silly pics here.  Am trying to edit into a small parody type movie for my you rude channel.  .. Whoops I meant to type YouTube but came out more appropriate .....?

Link to YouTube movie version--> http://youtu.be/lqw0_VWgwD0

                           Trailer version--> http://youtu.be/SAYvTFLkePM

............Here is the first confirmation email from CampHub ......

On Jul 25, 2013, at 22:37, "Bob"<boob@thehubkilkenny.ie> wrote:

 

Hi Campers,

 

Thank you for booking with Camp Hub for the Bruce Springsteen weekend here in Kilkenny. We want to draw your attention to some important information before you come to try to sleep at Camp Hub.

Please read through the list below, everything you need to avoid is here. If you require any more information about anything, please feel free to complain, won't matter, speak to the Camp Hub team once you arrive if you can find them......

 

 

Important Information

 

1.       Check in time is 11am Sat and Sun, 2 hours after you need. Check out is 10am Sunand Mon

2.       Parking spot available to each patron, please follow directions of stewards once you arrive on site, for directions see here http://www.thehubkilkenny.ie/directions

3.       Please do not bring any clothes or chickens to Camp Hub, should you require to put any items in cattle up area, please ask staff on arrival, find them with the 11 security patrols out smoking.

4.       Please remember to bring your Sheep counting tickets, Camp Hub auction form,visa card, towel, toiletries, sleeping equipment, even though sleeping is not possible except outside near garbage.

5.       No alcohol is permitted to be brought on site, bar will be open from 12-6pm on Sat and Sun – serving beer and wine..so get very drunk BEFORE you roll into someone's tent. 

6.       Restaurant on site is open from 7.30am – 6pm Sat and Sun When you are not here.....

7.       Showering times advised on arrival, line up at the hose in back. NO HAY OR STRAW,

8.       Any damage done to Camp Hub tents will incur a fine or castration. 

9.       Only persons wearing Camp Hub wristband will be allowed entry to campsite, the sorting pens.and on to shuttle buses – if lose your wristbands you can be branded. Pick Cow or Sheep please.

10.   Shuttle buses will run from 11am to 3am Sat and Sun, they will run in a constant loop according to demand except when really needed, then call our closed number and ..well just get Morris Taxi. 

11.   Please see map at Camp Hub to see drop off, pick up points, you guess is better than mine.

12.   Bottled water will be on sale at Camp Hub €22 plus Ę 9 deposit.

13.   And most of all…. Remember to take care and enjoy yourself this weekend! ..should you survive.

 

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

The Hub Team

 

 

The Hub

Cillin Hill

Dublin Road

Kilkenny

056-7789778

087-9211563

 

Here is the printed posted ad copy. Later they edited the website to reflect the changes, like no floor mats.

Here is the online map. Slightly annotated for accuracy 

Here are the SLEEPING PENS... This one is for sheep. The other for cows, no bull . I picked to count sheep for better sleep.... Besides the manure was not as deep.

Here is my favorite flyer off their front door. Gee...sign me up!?

My other roomate/tent mate decided to take her pad outside near the Garbage Dumpster Area. SE says the birds kept the rats away...and only a few sheep and cow dung piles around so did not smell as bad as inside. This felt like a brother/sister homeless under the bridge situation. In fact several people checked to see of she was breathing as they walked by.

Of course they did open the small door at about 2 am ..just enough to let in ..a bit of "fresh air " ..,smoke from the group of Security Staff outside.

As to the tent size..many had their feet sticking out the door because pretty small. And two people fills sideways...you must turn over at same time.

- some toilets are damaged but paper is there most of the time, no papertowels for handwashing (but you´ll bring you´re own), be sure to share the soap, because when its out, we dont give you more. 
- chairs are there to share, so for 400 people there are about 30, but don´t use them between 0-6 am if you get one
- people might not know that its an sleeping-and relaxingarea so don´t disturb while they have a party
- If you´ll be hungry after your concert, our restaurant is closed. Booth on a fun fair is around : hotdog only €6
- all this little service you´ll get for €100 one night or €182 for 2 nights, breakfast not incl., takes min. €10 for pers./day


This is Cillin Hell, sry Killing Hill 
We would appreciate your recommendation......

 I am in the outdoor shower area........little exposed when that tour bus pulled in with full headlights. These tourists....hope they had their cameras?

I did clean off my shoes Mom

" The Toilets are not our responsibility ....nor is the cafe, nor the bus system" - tony of CampHub.

Where plug in my phone charger? .?

Thumbs up for Bruce ....THUMBS DOWN FOR CAMPHUB..,! 

BROG having fun in Frankfurt

Actually pretty sleepy but sort of feels like a need a good queue or roll call to join...or hey even organize.

I am having a bit of fun gathering pics for a movie of our recent CampHub experience....you know that fun place with cows, sheep and closed showers ....so have heard the stories, some have see the pics, some,have had the smell, some have hurt their backs, some will get complaints...but here soon to a forum near you you will see the movie. CAMPING IN BRUCELAND

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Well it did not work out too well ....

Here is just the silly trailer ...prob best to wait for the movie except the credits can be interesting..

  

http://youtu.be/SAYvTFLkePM

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Brogan back to Seattle

Waiting at Dublin Airport....lots o happy zombies shuffling along here.... Lucky I found a Free Fast Cart....so I picked up some speed and launched to Seattle via refueling depot stop at Frankfurt .

Thanks to Bruce and the band and crew and all the fans for making such a grand experience for me. See you down the queue/road. Brogan from Seattle 

YouTube to Foollow ....

Brogan Breaks into BruceLAND

Since my arrival at Paris, my 1st ever concert, i have been trying to break into BruceLAND .

Talked to guard at Stade de France....only wanted a quick pic. Little did he know I'd get "lost".

Went down several secret stairs with new buddy Timothy...we found the Green Room. Pics of Bruce on the wall....my fake badge was working fine. Noticed his massage room...of course any KEEP OUT ROPE for me means YES STEP OVER. My shirt picked up his sweat...gad ....I'll never wash that shirt!

Next I got into Stade de Geneve ..but so dark at 2:22 am the pics did not turn out...plus I was kinda running hard .

In Leipzig my rope /carabiner rigging malfunctioned and camera fell into that access pipe...oh well...

Cardiff I found a few good doors...but those guys were like Really BIG and pretty mean. (Actually they were nice but NO WAY WAS I GETTING IN! )

And wow when I grabbed that white chair( I need to sit down man!) Feisty Little Liz was all over me, even grabbed my hat...I think she got some kinda award?

So here is the video on my YouTube channel. Check out the others if you dare. 

This is the trailer----  http://youtu.be/CYsDIWXWquQ

This is the full movie---  http://youtu.be/-0de-3aynkM

After they let me out of jail I get to Kilkenny ...heard there is pretty loose media access ...now I just got to photoshop my creds.

BROG number 22 still working....update from BruceLAND

Will write more but look at this...

My number in Cardiff ...after total random 5 pound taxi trip around the block to queue after walking talking and then yelling BROGAN FROM SEATTLE ...what number do I get?.. Yeah 22 divided by 2 times 10.     

Then pop over to get tix for Bruce movie and get last tix...you guessed it num 11

My birthday is 11/22

My num keeps being 22. I am a twin......and so on!,...

Whoo Hoo! 

Updates. Hotel room in Dublin = 2020

My hotel now in Frankfurt == 202. ... I first had 127 but it was smelly smoking room so asked for new room.....much better smelling and them"correct number"

My ticket number at London Oly park VIP= 202

Wrong Airport Belfast ...whoops...got to run

Got up early ready for quick taxi to airport .nice sharing. BruceLand stories with driver,Darin ..lots of time so go get board pass.....hmmmm..?..where Aer Lingus?...maybe mistake...really easyJet?...check my grid...here is picture of my 2nd fast cab of the day...

So I run run and make it to gate just in time....no time to pee..just like Bruce 

Of course I give out a button and tell my story to some Irish fans, Ernie and Lynn , meet such great people here...all Bruce family...oh oh. Got to run to roll call ....

Gave button and chatted with pilot of plane....he missed Bruce had to work boo Hoo que lástima 

More great visit with my German cousins, Hamburg style!

They even had a nice system for bed warmer 

Then breakfast was a dream...even kaviar paste..

Of course later that day we ate some more.....

First stop the Hamburg Beach on top of parking garage...a great concept

Then the food, the GREST food just kept coming.....

Then we drove home in my new LAMBORGHINI 

Welcome to Le Gastrocomic London Scene ...again

Well had a nice flight from Hamburg (land of real food...) to London ( land of disappointment or worse)'

Check into my airport hotel and spot a menu for some midnight desert ...oh yum here's a parfait sundae for two or scrumptious fudge brownie.....

I go down to the restaurant and find it is sort of closed but still can get some simple...so I go for the chocolate ice cream with fudge topping...keep it simple right!?

Heck even looks good in the picture...

I pay the 5 pounds...which is somewhere between 88 cents and $9.50

So the large cup/ bowl arrives.

Guy " umm sorry mate the freezer is on the fritz, so most of the stuff is melting...the ice cream got pretty soft...soupy. But should be still...ok?..?...and oh yeah I couldn't find the fudge sauce stuff., ok?"

At least he brought me a soup spoon....

...not sure if I will go for the warm breakfast tomorrow....it is just eggs right? ..description sounds good...

but I don't know. ...with both an airport hotel restaurant AND in London...that could be a risky combo?

Might make for a fun pic/story at least. Boy I wish I had a Germany roll or croissant ....how can they be called English Muffins when they taste like sorta your sock?

Course they seem to interesting Hash Browns....

I would probably write the ad copy...==> HASH BROWNS, YOU KEEP 'EM ..really that is the slick tasty ad for these ...yikes?..yuk..?

Still GOOD FOOD in Germany

Don't worry Mom I am staying well fed in Germany....excellent meals by my cousins, and good restaurants all over.

Here Thomas stuffs me with famous Nuremberg Sausage.

Tech note Nuremberg sausage was created way back very small diameter to fit through keyholes in jail cells.  Yummy.

Classic Wiener schnitzel at secret family brewhaus shared with cousin Thomas 

Even the non alcohol was great .

Big BBQ at Munchen cousin Frederik and extended family. They just kept grilling the sausage.

Mom you would love this, forget the name but basically BACON ON A STICK...lots of crispy fat...Sophie and Myla loved a bunch of them ...Myla was not too picky actually. 

I wish I had my Barcelona buddy Albert to slurp down some of these Nuremberg sausages . Yum yum.

This is the extra " snack food" snacken&sparen from the Kraus kitchen, dank Katrin and Frederik for a great stay and send off....however your outdoor shower needs a little better trained hose boy....I think he was having more fun than focusing on my shower....

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Brogan Born to Run in Geneve

My hotel was nice but 15 min away from Stade de Geneve ....as usual hard to find exact times of trains ...but got up 8:00 for 9am  Roll Call. Helped tourist guy find back door to hotel and started to train stop=..brisk walk.

Saw train about to pull away at 8:37...oh oh goodbye...

Next train coming at 8:47....oh oh 15 min trip...oh oh will be late. 

I email Esther for possible help. I am worried because I am number 76 and must take train then short bus one stop to Stade. 

Train is in fact 3 min late....oh oh  I text fan buddy Ludo..suggest he tell funny stories to queue boss..hope to delay so I make it...

Train arrives centrum...I have pumped up, had water, strap tight my pack, turned cap backwards, tighten shoes.....= Ready to Run

Doors open..bang I am out doors run  3 blocks to buss top. ..oh oh. .. I text Ludo say I will be 10 min late...hope Waiting on a Miracle ...

See motorcycle guy, but he says no no I need a helmet to hitch ride....

Look at bus schedule....oh oh 7 minutes....so flag down woman car, roll window down...she say no sorry she hurry to work. 

I remember to Breathe and Run.

Text fan friend Anne to give my tickets to fans if I have heart attack....=texting on FAST RUN...

I skip bus and head I think pretty sure towards Stade.== BORN TO RUN FAST... I am total sweat just like Bruce on second song....

Get some text from Ludo but everything is blurry...tasting blood in throat....

SEE Stade next block, hear crowd I line. ...Ludo text says ok but I do not see

===BORN TO RUN SUPER FAST...WILL BREATHE LATER...

 I round corner, see crowd..

I yell with my last breath B R O G A N  from S E A T T L E !

Ludo says slow down....someone has Pushed the clouds away and given me a Sunny Day. My number is saved

Takes me over an hour to catch breath and able to eat

It is a very nice Bruce family.....