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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Following on from my stepbrother’s how to build a swimming pond guide, I thought I upload a series of photos of Me and my Bell Tent to FlickR. They’ve mostly been taken by Alice Barker on a recent camping trip to Stubcroft Farm, and include a sequence of me putting up my 5 metre...
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Tags: 5 metre diameter Ultimate Bell Tent, Bell Tent, camping, FlickRStream, Halfords Family 4 Man Tent Pack, Stubcroft Farm
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I received a copy of The Sunday Times Travel Section from early July, which a mate had sent me as it had a top 20 small campsite list. This look liked it had been lifted from Tiny Campsite guide, and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I saw their Camping Manifesto: it...
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If you check-out my earlier East versus West Wittering post, you’ll see that I went to a lot of effort to find a campsite that was close to a sandy beach that wasn’t too far away from where I live in Brighton. In fact, I even thought of setting up my own site as...
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Tags: Beach Campsites UK, East Head, East Wittering, Ivan Pope, Nunnington Farm Campsite, Pop-up camping movement, Scotts Farm Camping Site, Stubcroft Farm, Sussex, The Happy Campers, West Wittering, West Wittering Beach
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It’s taken me about a day to add the notes and photos of all the Kool Kit at Stubcroft Farm in East Wittering and I still haven’t got round to the review of the site and visit to the beach. One of the highlights for me of our beach camping trip was our visit...
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Tags: beach camping, Chichester Harbour, East Head, East Wittering, Kool Kit, Stubcroft Farm, West Wittering Beach
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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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Less than 24 hours to go before I head off as the advance party on our two night trip to Stubcroft Farm in East Wittering, and I’m glad we upgraded our Renault Clio to a Grand Scenic as we are a very long way from Matthew De Abaitua’s more utilitarian, perhaps even mystical, philosophy...
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Tags: Camping Mysticism, East Wittering, essential camping kit, Matthew De Abaitua, Scotts Farm, Stubcroft Farm, West Wittering, Wowo
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Just chanced upon Matthew De Abaitua’s blog through a Guardian CiF camping piece. Matthew‘s also written a piece for them about the Seven Things Every Camper Should Own, which is a revised version of his earlier the only gear you really need guide, which I’ve been using to compare and contrast with my own...
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Tags: Cath and Math Camping, East Wittering, Guardian, Matthew De Abaitua, Millets, Seven Things Every Camper Should Own, Stubcroft Farm, The only gear you really need, UK Camp sites map, Word Press Theme
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