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Post by cowgirl on Feb 16, 2016 23:46:45 GMT
At the weekend we borrowed a friends static caravan. The site had a camping pitch in the next field. Imagine my surprise when I saw a tent on Friday arrive & have no electric. Heating  ?? They left after 1 night then on Sunday another tent arrived .... this time using electric I am officially a southern softie ! |
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Post by elderberry on Feb 17, 2016 10:45:06 GMT
I have six tents of varying sizes. For the first time a couple of years ago I had electricity. All other camps have been without that mod con.
The problem is that camping is quite heavy on the work, setting up, taking down, cooking on a camp stove, etc. That's fine when it's just me, but with DD it becomes a point of perpetual contention. When, in the Netherlands, the German couple with the posh caravan had asked us for the third time to stop arguing so loudly in our tent because we were ruining their relaxed weekend, I decided that long camping holidays should be a nono. We still do weekends and festivals.
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Post by imp on Feb 17, 2016 17:08:22 GMT
Loved camping with our birth children, WE did have lights which ran from our car battery, but no heating except from the gas cooking stove.
All this had to stop though once we started to foster---the children just wouldn't have been able to cope with the complexities of the trip hazards and non solid walls of the tent!
Mobile home trips round New Zealand quite another matter---though they were without any children
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Post by esty on Feb 17, 2016 20:53:52 GMT
We van it = still very basic with no heating with a couple of pup tents for carers/kids. We have electrics as need to run all of Big Fish' kit but dont use it for heating. We've camped out in snow in October and usually if I had carers would go myself March. We often van at Easter weekend.
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Post by homebird on Feb 18, 2016 12:14:35 GMT
| found tents far too cold but didn't know about electricity then when camping. We next used a folding camper which was much warmer and with onboard fridge and cooker. Then we discovered rallying with the big clubs so got a caravan - very comfortable and solid but I found I was spending too much time lounging with feet up inside. So, we reinvested in another folding camper which gives us more of a camping "feel" and happily use both that and the caravan depending on where we're going.
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Post by gilreth on Feb 18, 2016 19:57:57 GMT
We progressed from tent to folding camper before kids and now have a caravan. Sqk loves it and gives him security in the familiar surroundings.
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Post by serrakunda on Feb 18, 2016 22:06:33 GMT
As they say, no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.
The most miserable campng experience I had was up a mountain in Uganda. It was so muddy that the tents were literally sinking and had to be shored up. But it was very cosy in my sleeping bag, with three fleeces !
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Post by loadsofbubs on Feb 22, 2016 15:50:07 GMT
last time I went camping was GSH's camp 3 or 4 years ago. never been so cold in my life, and it was may! and discovered it really wasn't good for AS who simply wont wear more clothes but made himself ill by not doing so and tiddly bubs was frozen too. the bbs (small bubs) though, being a very warm blooded creature, was as toastie as they come. but the hassle of buggies, bottles, reins, containment of toddlers etc in a tent was a nightmare! (though the company was fantastic on the camp and I miss that). I can still remember my surprise, while talking to another camper, to see the bbs come wandering up behind us. i'd left her snuggled, and asleep I thought, in her sleeping bag, zipped into a toddler tent inside the zipped inside bedroom tent of the main tent and zipped inside the main tent for good measure. she'd only undone the toddler tent, the insdie tent and escaped through a small flap down the side of tent between the 'bedroom' and main wall of the tent! such a creative child!  happy memory, but wont be camping again any time soon! |
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Post by pingu on Feb 22, 2016 19:56:32 GMT
When it was just me I had a one man tent. Then , with hubby, we had a three and subsequently a four man tent when ds1 came. Now with ds2 as well, hubby bought a five man tent, and then upgraded to one with a bigger porch when the first one broke.
Was on a site with accessible power last year, used it for the first time ever, but just for
lighting ( july and no need for heat) It was good not to be having to be careful not to run out of torch batteries and candles ( candle lanterns)
Also had the treat of camping in Chamonix last summer - , heating we did NOT need, we had fled a nearly 40 degree heatwave in the south of France and evn in the French Alps it was almost too hot for comfort, just a bit more shade around.
These days the kids use their own one man tents and the inside extra space in the big tent is for food storage, we do take too much gumff, but i have never managd to pursuade dh we need less. Will be interesting to see what he does when its just us two !
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Post by jmk on Feb 23, 2016 8:24:05 GMT
Camping is just not for me I'm afraid, I like my home comforts too much or at least to have a bed a few inches off the floor.
I did loads of camping in my youth when I was a student and had no money spending months on end living in a tent in Holland and France, having to move it daily to avoid sleeping on molehills, drying tents out in the campsite drier after deluges and even once having to go and find the tent after it had blown away in a gale whilst we were at work in a bulb packing factory.
The thought of roughing it now at my age, just fills me with dread.
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happy memory, but wont be camping again any time soon!
