Camping.
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Recently I treated myself to a van
Somebody's just given me
And I got a good deal on
So this year I plan to spend as much time as possible camping with the family. This will be my first effort proper camping rather then just being drunk in a tent at events.
Anybody else a camper, any top tips or stories and most of all any good campsite recommendations? -
Camping is for faggots. Hah. -
Pitch tents facing down-hill.
We did this at Creamfields (o.k not proper camping) and when the place flooded we were slightly wet, unlike the tent next door which was bulging with water. -
I hate camping. There's no room service and the toilets are awful.Not everything is The Best or Shit. Theres many levels between that, lets just enjoy stuff.
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Before kids I would have agreed but after a long weekend camping in Cornwall last year the freedom outweighed the discomfort. I'm trying to minimise that now as well.Wookienopants wrote:I hate camping. There's no room service and the toilets are awful.
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Get a leatherman and a proper Zippo.
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This site is good for families - I head there with me bro's family.
http://www.wowo.co.uk/index.php/home
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"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer."
- BnB NMS review, PS4, PC -
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/
That site should have a review of any campsite you're likely to be visiting.
Haven't done tent camping in years. Â Hoping to do some this year on the bike up north though.
Did New Zealand in a small campervan. Â It was brilliant. Â Once you start to drop your creature comforts you realise you don't really need them. -
I think my missus might freak out of I turned up in a bio hazard poncho, sword in one hand monkeys fist in the other.beano wrote:
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beano wrote:This site is good for families - I head there with me bro's family. http://www.wowo.co.uk/index.php/home Don't go the lakes before June.
After a lifetime spent holidaying in a caravan there, I'd probably amend that to 'Don't head to the lakes, unless you love the cold and rain." -
Been camping for the past two years in November. No tents, just a tarpaulin in the woods in the middle of nowhere, a few mates, an axe or two for tree felling (for the fire), a few sausages/rolls etc, a hacksaw, some sleeping bags and a bottle of this:
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Liveinadive wrote:Get a leatherman and a proper Zippo.
Leatherman is a good call. -
They combine "being sensible" with "buying shiny sharp things"
I have a mild obsession with sharp tools. -
From the first trip:
Also from the first trip.....one of my mate's decided not to brave the elements, and brought along a tent that he'd bought a few months earlier 'on the cheap'. He had mentioned it was a child's tent, but we no-one was expecting THIS:
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Where do you go moot? I've never felt confident to wild camp in case I'm actually in someone's back garden or the local dogging spot.
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Loads of nice camp sites in Devon and Cornwall, and in Wales / the borders near the Forest of Dean.
Good places to start:
http://www.coolcamping.co.uk
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Other tips:
ALWAYS practice putting the tent up before you go. And ALWAYS take the right poles........
And get a ground sheet.
And don't eat inside the tent. -
Every single fucking time i've ever been camping an earwig has somehow materialised inside the tent. I really don't know how they do it.
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Have done it once or twice when I was younger and enjoyed it. Nowadays I'd be more into trying a camper van out with the wife and kids. The wife thinks roughing it is having to walk to the end of the corridor to the ice machine.
Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009. -
Oh yeah, take blow-up mattresses, and don't leave the fucking battery-powered pump at home.
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n0face wrote:Where do you go moot? I've never felt confident to wild camp in case I'm actually in someone's back garden or the local dogging spot.
There's a paintballing place near Ruxley Wood in Sidcup. We just park up by that and follow a courier from my office on a winding path through the wood until he finds what he calls the 'caveman' site. He's 57, and reckons he camped there every four or five weeks for twenty years starting in the early 80s. He can start fires with twigs and stuff, and tells some good stories about camping on acid.  It's so deep in the wood no-one's likely to see the fire, so we just chance it.Â
There's an abandoned camp site a few hundred yards away from where we set up, with odd wooden wigwam things, which looks like a sort of Mary Celeste scene with plates and whatnot untouched for years. So we sat in that and watched The Blair Witch Project on my phone and then spent the rest of the night doing the 'Vern with the gun' scene from Stand By Me. -
If you fancy a bit of North Wales (which you should) then there's loads of great sites near Beddgelert and Capel Curig; you're slap bang in the middle of Snowdonia.
My dad and I used to stay at the Forestry Commission site just outside of Beddgelert; lovely spot with good facilities and the gentle roar of a mountain stream lulling you to sleep if you choose the right pitch.
Then we both realised that we weren't getting any younger and after a hard day on the hill, the lure of a duvet and a full English to follow proved too much so since then it's been a cracking B&B in Betws-y-Coed.
Still miss the stream. I have very fond memories of pitching by that stream.XBL, iOS, Steam: metagonzo -
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Are we on to the dogging, yet?
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We're too south. Go coastal."Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer."
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North Wales is definitely on the list for the summer, was thinking about a trip there for good Friday weekend but the and a half hours seemed a bit far for a trial run.metagonzo wrote:If you fancy a bit of North Wales (which you should) then there's loads of great sites near Beddgelert and Capel Curig; you're slap bang in the middle of Snowdonia.
My dad and I used to stay at the Forestry Commission site just outside of Beddgelert; lovely spot with good facilities and the gentle roar of a mountain stream lulling you to sleep if you choose the right pitch.
Then we both realised that we weren't getting any younger and after a hard day on the hill, the lure of a duvet and a full English to follow proved too much so since then it's been a cracking B&B in Betws-y-Coed.
Still miss the stream. I have very fond memories of pitching by that stream.
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Yeah, summer's a good shout. At least you'll be cold and wet instead of freezing and wet.
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