sports day

Pull your gloves on, don your boots, we’re having a good old-fashioned Sports Day! The Bohemia tennis tournament will take place again this year (champions and winners of the Bohemia Cup below). 

A beach volley ball will be re-created for a Volley Ball tournament - hosted by the local volley ball team and complete with palm trees. 

Does lying in a bubbling pool qualify as a sport? To fully ensure you get your rocks off in style we bring you the first ever hot tub spa at a festival. Bring your bikini & trunks.

This year the Chap Olympiad reaches its fifth anniversary and one of its defining moments – the first to be held during an International Olympic year. Arriving a month before the Beijing Olympics, this year’s “sports day for the overdressed” looks set to gather even more attention than ever.

EVENTS LIST

1. Martini Knockout Relay: Teams compete to mix a prefect dry martini, without the aid of a butler.
2. Umbrella Tossing: Umbrellas and bowlers are tossed towards a hat stand. Extra points for pithy Reggie Perrin comments when the umbrella misses.
3. The Pipe Smokers’ Relay: A lit pipe is passed between four teams of three along a gruelling 400-yard course. Points are deducted for dottle-sharing.
4. Hop, Skip and G&T: Contestants must leap into the sandpit holding a tumbler of gin and tonic. Points are deducted for spillages and flying ice cubes.
5. The Three-Trousered Limbo: Pairs of contestants sharing enormous trousers must wriggle under a steadily lowered pole. Underwear must not also be shared
6. Tug of Hair: Moustachioed contestants versus bearded. A single hair must be plucked from one’s opponent’s facial plumage.
7. Freestyle Trouser Gymnastics: Contestants face each other off with elaborate trouser movements. Points are deducted for failing to maintain razor-sharp creases.
8. The Chap Steeplechase: Ladies are the jockeys of the well-dressed nags, and the hurdles are forbidding, ranging from tins of lager to hoodie mannequins.


9. Bounders: Six cads approach six ladies and behave atrociously. The winner is the cad who receives the loudest slap, but still maintains the wryest smile.
10. Necktie Kwon Do: A Windsor knot must be landed on the opponent, on any part of his or her body. Points deducted for untidy knots or unnecessary violence.

Prizes are the coveted Gold Cravat and the title of Chap Olympian of the Year.

The Chap Olympiad last year was ranked among the top fifty Summer events by the Sunday Times Style supplement. The Chap Magazine is a British bi-monthly magazine edited by Gustav Temple proposing a return to a dandified way of life, involving tweed, pipe smoking, brogues and finely pressed trousers. The publication celebrates British culture and tradition, proposing a return to a more gentlemanly existence.

The Bohemia Festival 2008

Set amidst the peaceful and bucolic grounds of Bohemia, Tunbridge Wells, Emma Piette, Puscha and The Brickhouse present The Bohemia Festival, uniting the very finest of life's pleasures: Music, Comedy, Tennis and Pudding!

For Tickets:

Tickets are £75.