Going to a picnic: useful tips

Tourism - when friends are bored
given to you:
wherever you want, you will lead there,
the more you can, the more you will.

When I want to characterize my preferences in relaxation, I most often ask people to imagine a very simple picture - a big lazy cat reclining on silk pillows. Everything is simple.

No tents, hiking and mosquitoes. Soft bed, clean beaches, well-groomed animals on excursions, well-fed rabbits for lunch :).

However, things that for the previous 20 years have lived only in the inflamed brain of avid tourists are creeping into my life with small but confident steps - tents, bowlers, and so on and so forth.

Now I know what a karemat (a special tourist rug) is, how to set up a tent correctly, how much buckwheat should be poured into a bowler hat if more than 20 people eat, and what will happen to me if I inadvertently forget my face cream.

That is why I decided to write a short digression about the life of a person who loves to lie on silk pillows, but at the same time he is now completely calm about the proposal “to go out of town for a couple of days with tents”.

To begin with, I divided the rest into 2 categories - easy and medium. The level is the most difficult and the highest, I, thank God, have not yet comprehended. I am alien to the calculations of the caretaker for the camp, how much food you need to take with you for a month (!!), so I offer you my own modest experience. So,

You are going on a small picnic without spending the night to the beach or out of town. Here I also include trips to the country to friends, outings within the city, etc.

List of necessary things:

• Pads that are comfortable to lie on. If you are traveling by car, a picnic table with chairs or sun loungers for the female half of the team would be ideal.
• A couple of plastic salad bowls, a set of disposable tableware, napkins, and a tablecloth. Do not forget large glasses for beer or kvass.
• If you want to cook something on a fire (barbecue, fish soup or bake vegetables), then be sure to take a meat grate, a pot, matches, a bundle of firewood (if you are in a place without particularly good vegetation) and a small folding brazier.
• It is worth taking care of the presence of a pair of knives, one cutting board and several bottles of clean drinking water, which can be used to rinse dirty dishes or hands.
• Sun and bug creams will also come in handy.
• Hats, comfortable shoes for walking, a well-charged camera, a warm jacket in case of a sharp cold snap should occupy the first place in your bag.
• First aid kit, which includes basic remedies for headaches, pain in the abdomen, burns, allergies. If you are taking any special tablets, do not forget to take them with you.

Sample menu:

You are going for a few days outside the city (wild vacation on the sea or river). Such a vacation implies self-cooking, and also, possibly, involves living in not very comfortable conditions (tents). Of course, this includes trips to the country or to the sea in the houses.

List of necessary things:

• Tents, mats, bedding, deck chairs, hammock, chairs, picnic table or tent (makes cooking easier).
• From the dishes, everyone needs to take a bowl, a spoon / fork, as well as a cup. I advise you not to take disposable dishes - it is inconvenient to eat hot food in it.
• Take care of the presence of an ax, matches, a bowler hat (+ tripod), a grill for meat or vegetables, a bowler hat or a teapot for making tea, coffee or cocoa.
• For the entire camp, you need to have a couple of large deep bowls, a cutting board, and knives.
• Napkins, toothpicks, tablecloth, sponge and dish soap.
• It is also necessary to consider the option of drying clothes (it is worth taking a rope and clothespins), changing the weather (taking a film to create a canopy), as well as cold and damp weather (preparing one bundle of dry firewood).
• It is worth considering how you will sit, relax, sleep. For all this, you need to take sleeping bags, warm blankets and other practical and warm things.
• A flashlight, an insect repellent - this is something that no rest, which implies a night, can do without.
• Comfortable shoes, warm comfortable clothes, and socks are what can come in handy during the evening sitting by the fire and walking.
• A thin blanket or terry sheet that you can wrap yourself in after an evening swim or near a fire.
• Spare swimsuit (you never know)
• Clothes for comfortable sleep (shorts / leggings and a long T-shirt are usually ideal (I take my father's)).
• Water for rinsing dishes and hands
• Hygiene products
• First aid kit: aspirin, citramon, chloramphenicol, activated charcoal, hypoallergenic products, creams for household and sun burns.

Sample menu:

First you need to determine how many meals you will have for the entire period of rest and, based on this information, buy the necessary products. Usually for breakfast, my friend and I plan sandwiches and cookies, for lunch - hot first courses, for dinner - a side dish with something meaty. And, based on these blanks, approximately, such a list of products follows.

• Canned food, stew, pickled meat or fish
• Vegetables for salads, herbs, mayonnaise, salt, spices
• Vegetables for cooking on the grill - zucchini, blue, tomatoes and mushrooms
• Potatoes, several packs of different cereals or pasta
• Tea, coffee, sugar
• Bread, cookies, chips, croutons, seeds
• Fruits and sweets
• Juices, mineral water
• Shrimps can be considered a good option (necessarily pre-frozen and cooked already directly at the resting place)
• For lovers of easy and safe drinking, I advise you to cook mulled wine in the evening. For this you will need light red wine, cloves, apples, oranges and cinnamon. You can also add honey to taste.

What to do on such a vacation?

As one of the variants of the “crocodile”, you can use the game in the water - we make up a word for someone and this someone, jumping from any elevation in the water - a pier, a stone, tries to depict this word in the air. Of course, you need a fotik, imagination and a good mood :). And don't forget to be careful, of course.

You can still rant for a long time what game you can play in nature, but in fact it all depends on your desire and activity. You can invent your own games, entertainment and jokes. Nobody canceled the joint singing of modern hits near the fire, as well as elementary hide and seek within the same tent

Happy holidays my dears.