Archive | August, 2009

Camping in the New Forest

Camping in the New Forest

Mike Svenson visited the New Forest and sent us this account of his ‘desperate’ search for a campsite. Hollands Wood Campsite Ok, so with the weather forecast predicting some of the best temperatures of this summer to date for the weekend just past, we decided it was time to try out some camping in the [...]

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Camping News 28/08/09

Camping News 28/08/09

28/08/09 - We round up the weeks camping news.

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Pitchup.com Review

Pitchup.com Review

Pitchup.com is a new camping startup that lists over 5000 UK and Ireland holiday parks, campsites and attractions. Founder Dan Yates formerly worked at lastminute.com and you can see a similar level of quality and ease of use in Pitchup. Pitchup’s killer feature is a comprehensive search engine that allows filters to be applied to [...]

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Build the Perfect Campfire

Build the Perfect Campfire

It makes your clothes smell, eyes sting and cooks blackened food of dubious edibleness but campfires are perhaps unique as an insight into how our ancestors lived.  Tapping into the feral core of sleeping outdoors, campfires are largely unchanged in the face of technology that has transformed living outdoors in the 21st century (if you [...]

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Love in the Outdoors (or Sex in Tents)

Love in the Outdoors (or Sex in Tents)

It’s sweaty, cramped and not always sexy but sex in tents is now big enough to spawn (excuse the puns) a small cottage industry of products. Since Tracey Emin caused a minor furore stitching the name of everyone she’s ever slept with into the inside of a two man tent, sex and camping have been [...]

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Muksak review

Muksak review

As one of the top ten social nuisances in Europe dog poo has a lot to answer for. From the fabled ‘white dog poo‘ to that familiar sickening squelch underfoot, it’s a problem nobody wants to deal with. Responsible pet owners will scoop the poop only to find themselves vexed with where to put the [...]

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Campsite Cooking with Bulgar Wheat

Campsite Cooking with Bulgar Wheat

Bulgar wheat as a tasty, convinent camping food. The simple no fuss food makes the perfect campsite meal.

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Wild Camping at Studland Bay

Wild Camping at Studland Bay

After a bit of post-camp research it seems Studland bay is a “a haven for rare birds” and  more interestingly a haven for some other rare birds as “the Trust’s only designated naturist beach at Knoll Beach” (see The National Trust). Wild Camping Feathered or not it wasn’t rare birds we were seeking when we [...]

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