There was me thinking that most marinas round the world were filled with floating caravans masquerading as yachts and boats, and then my architect mate Julian Cripps shows me an example of an actual floating caravan. Now I’m not normally one to agree with Jeremy Clarkson but I’m not one for caravans unless they...
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I met Derek Attenburrow at Scott’s Farm while revisiting the Witterings. Derek and his partner Ellen were very interested in our Bell Tent set-up. He’s subsequently been in touch and sent some camping photographs from many years ago when he used to go farm camping with a group on May the first. A forwarding...
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BioLite Stove Charges Your Phone While Cooking Your Dinner Wood-burning stoves aren’t known for being particularly efficient, and their smoke not only contains high carbon emissions but causes health risks to those who inhale it. A portable design from BioLite aims to tackle this problem and turn the stove into a cell phone charger...
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Last year I’d mentioned how Math’s Doctor Simon Walsh had cooked us up top tucker mucker treat at Wowo on an improvised skillet. He’d seen something similar being used on a beach in Spain, and so we ended up enjoying some mouth watering marinated prawns and calamari with beansprouts and noodles and grilled field...
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After having had my kids put the Bell Tent UK Inner Tent through its paces (see Bell Tent Improvements) I thought it only fair that I got them to help me test out the additional bag I was very kindly sent by Tobyn along with a TEAR-AID patch. As you can see they are...
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No camping trip is complete without cake. The glucose-based Kendal Mint Cake is popular with the more hardy types that go climbing and hiking. If you are glamping it up, however, then it’s got to be cup cakes, which means you’ll also need a stand. My wife is keen cake maker and was given...
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Thanks to Chris Toombes for pointing me to this piece on How To Plan the Nerdiest Camping Trip Ever. Personally, I like to keep the consumer electronics to a minimum when I’m ‘out there’ glamping it, but can understand why those that go camping/hiking might want some additional GPS type apps to enhance their...
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When we first bought our 5m Ultimate Bell Tent we bought an additional Inner Tent thinking that there would be one area for my wife and I to sleep in, and the kids could sleep in the other area with everything else. What actually happens is the kids want to sleep in the inner...
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It’s less than a day now until around 100 of us from the Five Ways area of Brighton head off over to Wowo in Uckfield and I’ve started to pack the car with still loads more to be crammed in. Looks like there’s going to be a lot going on while we are there,...
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Thanks to 2_camping for pointing out this mad, but fun Cricket trailer from ex-NASA architect Garrett Finney. Not sure what shipping costs would be from US, but they are built to order and cost up to $17,000. Not completely sure about the shower set-up though. Looks like the floor could get very very wet...
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