Before it's too late and/or can't be bothered, I'm going to try to keep a blog of our camping "expeditions".
It could work both ways - more camping means more blogging, more blogging (might) mean more camping! Who knows?
To start at the beginning....
Summer 2008, purchased good value, family tent pack from halfords:
- 1 family tent
- 4 sleeping bags
- 2 double airbeds
- 2 little lanterns
- 1 big lantern
- 1 pump
Took tent pack home, put it in the garage and talked about camping for nearly a year.
Spring 2009, progress!
Bart & Lou buy (big, expensive) tent and call our bluff.
Campsite in Forest of Dean booked for first bank holiday weekend in May.
Absolute novices so some kit borrowed (ground sheets, gas stove from Issi), some kit ransacked from kitchen, picnic set (bought 6 years ago and never opened) retrieved from garage.
Car packed (and I mean PACKED) and off we went.
One trial erection (hurr hurr), we thought our tent was pretty impressive. Arriving at the campsite soon disabused us of that particular notion....
Our tent was smaller than some of the porches on others' tents.
Bart and Lou's was earmarked by the Red Arrows as a possible alternative in the event of a rainy airshow.
Once tent up and beers opened everything was great, cracking weekend, boys free to run around, dads free to barbecue and drink, mums free to decide which they despaired of most, dads or boys...
Very cold in the nights - box of red wine dispensing at decidedly less than recommended temperature and fingers too cold to play Uno!
Beautiful, efficient, well run site.
Eventually though, tents packed in rain, cars loaded and families returned home.
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