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Winter Proofing your Caravan

If you are storing your caravan in hibernation for the winter, taking certain precautions can guarantee your beloved motor home is ready for use again when spring arrives.

The Latest Camping Fashions

How to dress to impress when camping

How to build a safe and efficient tent heating system

Dreading cold winter camping? Here's how to design a efficient and safe tent heating system.

Five musts when camping abroad

Going camping in a different country is incredibly exciting. The thrill of pitching your tent in a new and undiscovered part of the world is something many people enjoy and relish, but it can also be a time of mixed emotions as a fear of the unknown kicks in.

Caravan Holidays in Enchanting North Wales

Whether you are a seasoned caravanner or plan to experience the activity for the first time, why not explore North Wales?

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.

5 Hot Spots for a Family Camping Holiday

Holidays should be about family fun and quality time together, packed full of activities, adventures and dining out experiences that all the family can enjoy.

Keeping Warm at Night When Camping

Keeping warm at night whilst camping is a challenge. Even the hottest of days can be followed by a chilly evening so being prepared and keeping warm is essential for a good nights sleep.

Lowering your caravan and motorhome insurance premiums

Caravan and motorhome insurance is something that every owner must consider, as it can give them peace of mind that their vehicle is covered should it ever be stolen or damaged.

Gourmet Winter Camping Recipes – Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings

If you're camping this winter (see our winter camping recommendations) you'll need some hearty fare to keep the cold away.

Heating your tent

Whatever the season your tent can get cold at night when camping. Here's a handy guide to keeping warm at night.

Caravanning in the winter

While camping is a popular activity in the warmer months of summer, the rest of the year can be far too cold for sleeping on the ground under canvas; and regardless of season there is never a guarantee of tent-friendly weather.

Wild camping in Shetland

There were 3 of us wild camping in Shetland for a week. We had picked a spot near the waters edge that involved getting a bus from Lerwick along one of Shetlands many single track roads, then walking 5 miles down another even quieter road/track then finally a mile over fields.

Rent your garden with Camp in My Garden

Have you ever wanted to visit an event and been put off by high hotel prices or a lack of campsites in the area? Camp in My Garden founder Victoria Webbon was and has launched a new concept in camping that allows people to sell pitches in their gardens!

Finding Cheap Tents

Sometimes you don't want a top of the range tent and something more cheap and cheerful is required.

Caravan Cooking

Wonder what you'll need on a caravan cooking holiday? We list the essentials and pitfalls of packing for a caravan holiday.

Why I love camping

It's getting cold and gloomy outside so let's step back for a minute and remember why we love camping.

The History of Camping: BBC4 Britain Goes Camping

Britain Goes Camping by BBC4 tackled the history of British camping from it's beginnings as a pastime of the landed gentry to today's resurgence in popularity.

Win a Regatta Pop Up Tent Set

Win a Regatta Pop Up Tent Set including a two person pop up tent, two sleeping mats, two folding camping chairs and two sleeping bags.

CampingNinja.com Review

Campining Ninja is a new site designed to help you book campsites online and could save you money, time and help you find that hidden gem with hot showers that takes groups in the Lake District (for instance).

Worth the Weight? Packing light for Camping pt3: Gear

Part three of our guide to packing light for camping. Weed out the espresso machine and gas grill from your pack in favour of some truly essential items.

Glamping it up in Yorkshire

In the adventure girls guide to Glamping, Karli Drinkwater spends a wonderful weekend getting acquainted with a Yorkshire Yurt.

Camping in France – a life under canvas

The idea of camping has only undergone a populist revival in the UK over the past five years or so, in France they’ve been lauding the delights of a holiday under canvas for… well, forever

Gone camping…

Campr is going on it's annual expedition to foreign climes, and this year it's Colombia. The tents may be closer to hammocks but if we see any cool campsites we'll tell (boast to) you about them when we get back.

Worth the Weight? A Guide to packing light Pt2: Food

If you’re planning to head into the hills, don’t make the mistake of bringing dull, heavy food – and don’t be fooled by expensive innovation either.

Worth the Weight? A guide to packing light

If wilderness camping is in the cards for you this spring or summer, you might be surprised at what you can cut from your packing.

New additions to the Campr 100

New sites have been added to the Campr 100! The best campsites in the UK as voted by you and selected by our camping experts. We have been rather slow to add new sites to the list but with the season fast approaching it was time to get off our digital behinds and celebrate the [...]

Camping is…

It’s official, Google thinks camping is cool. It won’t say what it thinks of caravanning so we’ll assume it’s unprintable if you have ‘safe search’ turned off.

Gone camping (to Bordeaux)

See you in a week!

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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