As Dr Terry Young from the Department of Geography & Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University explained to me recently, camping is a pilgrimage to the sacred center (nature) “out there” and a common aspect of pilgrimage is a reduction, or even a disappearance, of the social distinctions of everyday life as the pilgrims...
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Spots, chintz and designer festival tipis are just so passé now, so it’s move over Cath Kidston and let’s get back to the seaside with stripy Breton shirts, Charles Trénet singing La Mer on the gramophone and a seaside bunting necklace from Tatty Devine. Better rush as I think I hear the style police...
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One of the reasons I decided on a Bell Tent was that I liked the way they could be decorated, so that you can customise/personalise them in a way that doesn’t seem to make sense with a tunnel tent. Sure you can get groovy patterned tents from Eurohike and even designers like Zandra Rhodes,...
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