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New additions to the Campr 100

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 [...]

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Camping is…

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.

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Gourmet Winter Camping Recipes #1 – Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings

Gourmet Winter Camping Recipes #1 – 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.

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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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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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Going Glamping

Going Glamping

Natalie from Ambloguity writes about her conversion to glamping. If you have a camping experience to share visit our Camping Essentials Page Tears and tipis. How I got into glamping Crowded tents, torrential rain and the constant fear of being washed away lead me to the same conclusion as my Glastonbury attendance, not to mention [...]

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10 Essential Camping (web) Sites

10 Essential Camping (web) Sites

This post would probably work best in winter when we’re huddled inside wishing the cold months away, but if you’re planning a trip this summer these sites could help you unearth a hidden gem. Hotels and caravans seem to have a monopoly on the best sites on the internet  (some campsites websites are SO BAD [...]

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