I didn't realise how mental camping had got.
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Cotty said:
Is that a bivi bag? I have one but not actually used it yet.
It is. Army surplus eBay purchase. Arrived last weekend. So far it has coped well with two dry summer nights in a bit of field out the back of our house, so clearly I'm ready to tackle K2. Might use it to watch some badgers up the hill behind us or camp on the top to see the sunset.Hugo Stiglitz said:
That's because they go away for two weeks and into some really nice camping places!
Here we are crowded in to a lumpen field that's slopped with 50% rain and near people with dogs.
The closest I got to UK camping abroad was I'm Brugges.
Close, cramped, noisy with occasional rain.
There are some stunning UK campsites though...Here we are crowded in to a lumpen field that's slopped with 50% rain and near people with dogs.
The closest I got to UK camping abroad was I'm Brugges.
Close, cramped, noisy with occasional rain.
Kelling Heath in North Norfolk. River Dart Country Park in Devon, etc.
Both are nice big pitches, great facilities, superb clubhouses and activities on site.
We've even been temped by some of the parks now where pitches have their own 'block' with full bathroom, jacuzzi, etc.
I'm quite happy spending a fortnight in a decent campsite in the UK.
HairyMaclary said:
Went moto camping for the first time last week. Loved it.
Took as much as I could get on the bike which isn't much.
2 man tent full of bike gear. Had 3 teeshirts, pants, socks and a jumper. Wash bag, towel, tent, roll mat and sleeping bag and that was about it. The only luxury I had was a fold up stood that wasn't as comfy as first thought so wasn't used.
'camping is what refugees do' brilliant. I'm using that
What tent is that fella?Took as much as I could get on the bike which isn't much.
2 man tent full of bike gear. Had 3 teeshirts, pants, socks and a jumper. Wash bag, towel, tent, roll mat and sleeping bag and that was about it. The only luxury I had was a fold up stood that wasn't as comfy as first thought so wasn't used.
'camping is what refugees do' brilliant. I'm using that
The Decathlon 2 man one I used last weekend for one night only was too low and felt cramped with just me in it.
Your one looks far more spacious.
This is my set up. Entrance is big enough but it slopes down and I just felt like I was in an iron lung.
Edited by croyde on Saturday 19th June 18:45
Me & 'er have a combined camping lifespan of about 90 years, so you can imagine we've accumulated a fair bit of stuff, but we're still relatively basic compared to many.
I still have my bike camping Khyam Igloo from the mid eighties, and still love it for its convenience, if not its lack of space now we're much older, somewhat ahem, bulkier.
So we tend to use a 4-berth now (a Kampa Hayling) and we use a 10cm SIM and even take pillows! Other than that, and a two-burner Camping Gaz stove and a pan and cast iron skillet and the usual plastic cups, 'glasses' and cutlery, and a couple of Isabella beach chairs and two folding tables, and some battery lamps, we're all set (oh and a lidded plastic bucket which shall not be discussed...).
We're in it right now as it happens (the site, not the bucket), on a site near Buxton. We came on Tuesday for a week (do it most years as it's a lovely well-run site with pretty hill views and good walks from the gate).
All was fine and normal until Friday PM , maybe a few more tents than normal, but then it went mad.
I thought the circus (plural) had turned up. I've never seen such a proliferation of eight-and up berth tents, together with gazebos and enough cars to transport all the crap they brought with them. Madness. And most of them appeared to be first timers who had no idea as to how to string a guy or knock a peg in at the right angle.
Now it's approaching noon on Sunday and all of a sudden the site looks empty again, and I'm hoping it stays that way...
I wonder how many of those very expensive airbeam very wet tents will stay in their bags and dissolve into black mould over the coming months?
Covid. Bah.
I still have my bike camping Khyam Igloo from the mid eighties, and still love it for its convenience, if not its lack of space now we're much older, somewhat ahem, bulkier.
So we tend to use a 4-berth now (a Kampa Hayling) and we use a 10cm SIM and even take pillows! Other than that, and a two-burner Camping Gaz stove and a pan and cast iron skillet and the usual plastic cups, 'glasses' and cutlery, and a couple of Isabella beach chairs and two folding tables, and some battery lamps, we're all set (oh and a lidded plastic bucket which shall not be discussed...).
We're in it right now as it happens (the site, not the bucket), on a site near Buxton. We came on Tuesday for a week (do it most years as it's a lovely well-run site with pretty hill views and good walks from the gate).
All was fine and normal until Friday PM , maybe a few more tents than normal, but then it went mad.
I thought the circus (plural) had turned up. I've never seen such a proliferation of eight-and up berth tents, together with gazebos and enough cars to transport all the crap they brought with them. Madness. And most of them appeared to be first timers who had no idea as to how to string a guy or knock a peg in at the right angle.
Now it's approaching noon on Sunday and all of a sudden the site looks empty again, and I'm hoping it stays that way...
I wonder how many of those very expensive airbeam very wet tents will stay in their bags and dissolve into black mould over the coming months?
Covid. Bah.
Edited by Steve Kimberley on Sunday 20th June 11:36
Steve Kimberley said:
I wonder how many of those very expensive airbeam very wet tents will stay in their bags and dissolve into black mould over the coming months?
Covid. Bah.
Can't do that wi' an 8-berth airbeam tunnel tent though (unless you live in Chatsworth House or the like).
My comment referred to these, and bigger, which seem to have sprung up in their hundreds this year! They all seem to travel in multiple households too, pitching some monstrosity of a shelter between the two big tops.
Christ knows what they'd have done in the seventies when my Force Ten Mk5 was considered large.
My comment referred to these, and bigger, which seem to have sprung up in their hundreds this year! They all seem to travel in multiple households too, pitching some monstrosity of a shelter between the two big tops.
Christ knows what they'd have done in the seventies when my Force Ten Mk5 was considered large.
Steve Kimberley said:
Can't do that wi' an 8-berth airbeam tunnel tent though (unless you live in Chatsworth House or the like).
My comment referred to these, and bigger, which seem to have sprung up in their hundreds this year! They all seem to travel in multiple households too, pitching some monstrosity of a shelter between the two big tops.
Christ knows what they'd have done in the seventies when my Force Ten Mk5 was considered large.
They are probably just writing the £600+ off as its cheaper than a fortnight in the sun. My comment referred to these, and bigger, which seem to have sprung up in their hundreds this year! They all seem to travel in multiple households too, pitching some monstrosity of a shelter between the two big tops.
Christ knows what they'd have done in the seventies when my Force Ten Mk5 was considered large.
We’ve just come back from a few nights at Freshwater, Bridport, in the caravan. Huge increase in chavs, oiks and scrotes, looks like camping is the new Benidorm/Ibiza.
My kids now want electric scooters because all the feral kids were racing around on them.
Huge group of tarmac layers there too just to add a bit of spice to the evening’s entertainment.
My kids now want electric scooters because all the feral kids were racing around on them.
Huge group of tarmac layers there too just to add a bit of spice to the evening’s entertainment.
IT Geek said:
We’ve just come back from a few nights at Freshwater, Bridport, in the caravan. Huge increase in chavs, oiks and scrotes, looks like camping is the new Benidorm/Ibiza.
My kids now want electric scooters because all the feral kids were racing around on them.
Huge group of tarmac layers there too just to add a bit of spice to the evening’s entertainment.
Had you been before? Freshwater has always been like that, it often looks like a refugee camp!My kids now want electric scooters because all the feral kids were racing around on them.
Huge group of tarmac layers there too just to add a bit of spice to the evening’s entertainment.
...... Anywhere on a beach with its own pool etc etc will be like that in the SW - Graston Copse up the road is much more pleasant
IT Geek said:
We’ve just come back from a few nights at Freshwater, Bridport, in the caravan. Huge increase in chavs, oiks and scrotes, looks like camping is the new Benidorm/Ibiza.
I don’t want to be over dramatic, but my prediction is that someone will be killed or seriously injured on a British campsite this summer when an argument about noise and/or s
tty chav behaviour gets completely out of hand and does something stupid, purely because the kind of scrotes who don’t normally go camping are going camping. The last few years I went camping, we always went off grid, finding sites with no electric and little in the way of facilities.
The bigger sites were getting crazy, massive tents and gazebos taking over every inch, the ever constant noise, add some alcohol and a disregard for noise rules and it was all becoming unpleasant then
The bigger sites were getting crazy, massive tents and gazebos taking over every inch, the ever constant noise, add some alcohol and a disregard for noise rules and it was all becoming unpleasant then
IT Geek said:
We’ve just come back from a few nights at Freshwater, Bridport, in the caravan. Huge increase in chavs, oiks and scrotes, looks like camping is the new Benidorm/Ibiza.
My kids now want electric scooters because all the feral kids were racing around on them.
Huge group of tarmac layers there too just to add a bit of spice to the evening’s entertainment.
We went away in our own caravan the first time a few weeks back, I'd been caravanning and camping a good few times before but in relatives outfits rather than my own. Both my boys were told how to behave, not to speak too loud, where to walk etc and to their credit they were very good.My kids now want electric scooters because all the feral kids were racing around on them.
Huge group of tarmac layers there too just to add a bit of spice to the evening’s entertainment.
Def noticed a big change in the types of people there from when I had been before
My son was watching a neighbors son flying around on a little electric bmx type thing that didn't need to be peddled which is now on his birthday list
chopper602 said:
After many many years of camping (all without electric hookup) we decided to upgrade to a motorhome and love it.
To ensure we could still camp, in 2019, we took all the camping gear etc and three adults in a small 35 year old car to Croatia. We made it there and back and had a marvelous time.
In 2020 we exchanged the motorhome for a newer one . . .
Top car, have you got a Hubnut sticker?To ensure we could still camp, in 2019, we took all the camping gear etc and three adults in a small 35 year old car to Croatia. We made it there and back and had a marvelous time.
In 2020 we exchanged the motorhome for a newer one . . .
W124Bob said:
Top car, have you got a Hubnut sticker?
Of course not! I've known Ian for years and I like to think my level of car maintenance is a bit better than his . . . He didn't do the meeting in Croatia properly in his AirBnB . . . waking up with a hangover in a very hot tent is where it's at !
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