This guest post is from Andrew & Bernadette Erskine, the compiler of www.frenchcampsites.co France offers an infinite variety of holiday destinations and an infinite variety of campsites. You can return to France year after year and always find somewhere or something new. There are over 10,000 camp sites in Frances including all the small...
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1, 2, 3 testing … please ignore as we’ve been trying to sort out the Twitter feed from this blog. It’s been spewing out unreadable HTML for months and no one has mentioned it, which only goes to show how much notice anyone has been taking of us on Twitter. Thankfully, Ivan Pope has...
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So it’s getting to the time of year when Out There makes more sense. Last weekend we set out for the opening of the Turner Contemporary in Margate. This huge new art gallery on the seafront at Margate is intended to draw in the crowds to a rather sad and neglected part of the...
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So I decided to take up running, to give it a go and see whether it suited me. Really to see whether I could actually do it. I hated cross country at school and haven’t run more than a few yards since. I bought some running shoes and kit, then I looked round for...
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My favourite nutty clothing store is looking to borrow a vintage tent for their photo shoot. So, if you’ve got grandad’s canvas number in the attic, now it can get some exposure! howies – brainfood Does anyone have an old tent we can borrow for a prop for our Spring Summer 2011 photo shoot...
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So I noticed that the Camping and Caravanning Club are the arbiters of camping sites and you can apply through them to set one up. I didn’t really understand how they can be both arbiters of who can set up a site and beneficiaries of those sites, so I sent off for their booklet...
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Yesterday I popped into the Open Market here in Brighton to buy some fish. Well, the market was largely closed and the fish stalls were locked up, but I did meet Claire Potter sittingin a pop-up design consultancy. After a chat I picked up a postcard for one of her products, the Green Bean...
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So, I’ve just got back from our most ambitious camping trip yet. We drove down the eastern side of France from Calais, across the Alps into Italy and across northern Italy to Venice. We camped at five different sites along the way, four of which were booked before we left (I like a bit...
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I really enjoyed this Korean-American blog post about different cultures’ approaches to camping:Kimchi Mamas: Korean Camping I have been camping a lot this summer, and I started wondering how different cultures approach camping. A coworker told me about taking his Russian-born wife camping for the first time, and how she laughed when arriving at...
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If you ever wondered where all the abandoned tents went to (though who would abandon a tent!), here’s an answer: WiTHiNTENT uses fabric from the tonnes of broken and damaged tents that are left behind at the end of music festivals, to create shower-proof clothing and accessories for the festival market. Each item is...
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