Edel Coffey: From festival hardship to family glamping, trying to be the 'outdoor type'

"It seems incredible to me now, as a grown woman who also has children, that I have managed to escape camping for so long."

A wide-angle view of the festival camping at Indiependence 2018: wouldn't have been Edel Coffey's cup of tea. Pic: Larry Cummins

Evan Dando of The Lemonheads once covered a sweet little song called ‘The Outdoor Type’ that perfectly sums up my feelings about the great outdoors. 

‘I’ve never slept out underneath the stars,’ he sings. ‘The closest that I came to that was one night my car/broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night/I lied about being the outdoor type.’