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    3 months ago

    In the 80s and 90s I used to help organise and run Confests.

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        3 months ago

        Very big hippie festivals , like thousands of people would turn up

        https://www.dte.org.au/news/Sept83.PDF newsletter written by George , I remember him!! old dutch guy who smoked bidis all the time

        most my mates from that time ended up in byron bay

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          What was the smell like? A mixture of BO and incense or something else?

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            3 months ago

            like a sweet cigar

            oh, you mean the festival?

            It was outdoors, so just the smell of gum trees and heat

            the food avenues would always smell of delicious Indian street food

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            Pit toilets are pit toilets. You cope. Otherwise it mostly smells like dust and campfire.

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              ha ha, we had use of real club house loos.

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          I’d never heard of it either, but I kinda want to go to one now. I’m not very hipster, but it still sounds fun

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            I’m not even remotely hipster and had fun there. Be prepared for plenty of crunchy type persons though, many of them naked.