The 3rd Edition of Cool Camping Guide is now out, with 3 reviews by yours truly. I’m sworn to secrecy, so couldn’t possibly tell which ones I reviewed, but I’ll give you a clue they are on the coast but not near Brighton. Who knows maybe the campsite I’d like to set up, possibly...
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Tags: Cool Camping, Dixe Wills, tiny campsites
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Unlike Dixe Wills you are unlikely to find me camping when there’s any chance that I might wake up in a snow drift. Anyway, the tent’s now in the loft, my site reviews for the next Cool Camping Guide have been handed in and I haven’t heard back recently from the camping mags that...
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Tags: Cool Camping, Dixe Wills, Stoneywish, Wowo
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Seeing that we are now in September and I seem to be coming down with some lurg I thought I’d better quickly announce the 3 winners of our Top Camping Tips Competition who will be receiving a copy each of Dixe Wills‘ new tiny campsites book that the folks at Cool Camping very kindly...
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As mentioned a few weeks back month, the folks at Cool Camping very kindly gave me a copy of Dixe Wills‘ tiny campsites to check-out along with 3 copies to giveaway for the best camping tips … along the lines of the Andy Kershaw frisbee-come-plate one mentioned in my review (see here). Submitting an...
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Tags: Andy Kershaw, Competition, Cool Camping, Dixe Wills, tiny campsites
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I’ve been trying to add this post ever since visiting the ‘secret’ site at South Allington House near where I’m staying in Devon. Frustratingly, the broadband has been so intermittent over the last few days that I haven’t been able to upload all the photos. In fact, we have the BT engineer round at...
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Tags: 3 way camping fridge, Advance Aid, Combicool, Cool Camping kit, David Dickie, Devon, Dixe Wills, East Wittering, Electrolux RC1600, fire pit, Gelert Moon Chair, Ikea, Kampa Field Kitchen, Kelly Kettle, Kool Kit, Let The Light In, Matthew De Abaitua, my-KEA, Notebook BBQs, Seven Things Every Camper Should Own, solar powered light, South Allington House, Stubcroft Farm, The Guardian, Weber BBQ
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The folks at Cool Camping very kindly gave me a copy of Dixe Wills‘ tiny campsites to review (plus three copies to be won, see below). I also managed to catch-up with him over the phone during my holiday in Devon. I originally wanted to publish the interview as a podcast in order to...
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Tags: Andy Kershaw, BBC Orchestra, BBC4, Beryl's Secret Camping Haven, Britain Goes Camping, camping, Cool Camping, Devon, Dixe Wills, Frisbee, Housewives' Choice, Kingsbridge, Lannacombe Farm, New Statesman, South Allington House, Sugar Place, Sweet Meadows, The Guardian, tiny campsites
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Yesterday, was a little too full on what with my son’s 4th birthday bash at Stoneywish Nature Reserve, the discovery of my first pop-up camping tribe nearby, an hour long dog walk along the Hollingbury Woods Trail before a five hour drive down to Devon. So I’m very glad to be looking out the...
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Tags: Brendon, Britain Goes Camping Documentary, Dixe Wills, Drewsteignton, Exmoor, Hollingbury Woods Trail, Millslade Country House, Pop-up camping, Pop-up Campsites, Start Point Lighthouse, Stoneywish Nature Reserve, swim pond, tiny campsites
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