Meetups Before Faire?

[Merlin the Elder]

You'll be seeing Nim and me...  We hope to meet a lot of new R/Fers as well.

[Welsh Wench]

The BARF crowd tailgates under the oak trees. We usually have breakfast items such as bagels, Kate's sausage and gravy with biscuits and sometimes quiche for special occasions.
For St Molden's we had a ham and---WAY over there----->>> haggis.

Topped off with mimosas and sometimes mint juleps.

[DonaCatalina]

The morning tailgate at Scarborough is still going strong. There have been mimosas for most Saturday on top of the usual fare.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Bristol does not allow any outside food or drink in the parking lot, either before or during faire.  My son was sitting in our car in the afternoon drinking a beer that he took from a small keg in the trunk, and the security confiscated the keg & he had to pick it up after the faire was over.

In years past, you would see families go into the parking lot and spread a blanket and eat their picnic, but they haven't allowed that either in recent times, as far as we have seen security tell them to pack it up.

We almost never get to Bristol earlier enough (3 hour drive).  We either get there just at opening gate or a few minutes after, so we don't meet up with people in the parking lot.  We head to the Friends of Faire garden upon arrival to fill our water bottles with either water or gatorade, and find our friends there, too.

[Marietta Graziella]

MNRF used to do some pretty big tailgates in the parking lot but because so many of us work the faire now there are not as many people out there.   And with the parking lot realignment it isn't as nice because the grove has been taken over by the horses.

[DonaCatalina]

Lady Renee, the laws vary by state on alcohol. In Texas if you are inside your car AND its not moving, you can have whatever you want because you are inside your personal property.

The trouble is...it is illegal to have an open container inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle if it is on the road anywhere.

[DonaCatalina]

Lady Renee, the laws vary by state on alcohol. In Texas if you are inside your car AND its not moving, you can have whatever you want because you are inside your personal property.

The trouble is...it is illegal to have an open container inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle if it is on the road anywhere.

And on that note...TRF doesn't seem to have much tailgating because a lot of the partyers are in the campground.