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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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... for wanting to go camping over Christmas or in the cold weather in a tent, whereas those who go skiing/snow-boarding/ice-climbing/mountaineers/etc. are not?!
Hypocrites I'd say!   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't 'do' the cold very well at all, so yes, you're defo wierd lol
Although having a good Christmas wherever you are and whatever you're doing and whoever you're with is just fine in my book. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Too right I don't give a toss what people think! 
And I can't wait to go camping in December, got multi-colour solar fairy lights and bunting for the new tent.
Getting another stove today that uses liquid fuel so that I can cook a nice fancy meal or two.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"devon is good for camping  "
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Went to camp over New Year weekend in 2009/10 in South Devon near Dawlish Warren.
I was going to go to Dorset last year, however, it was snowing around Christmas, as I did not want to get stuck in the traffic, hence I cancelled the trip.
Only camping 6 miles down the road from home this time! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nothing strange about that, I always have my pop up tent and supplies when I go to Wales or down to west country, if I've got the time don't feel like driving back, I'll pitch the tent up.
I've pitched a tent on a beach in the middle of winter, many times. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sounds like a fabulous idea to me...
In fact, I've been wondering what to do over xmas - and that sounds like a dream....
Maybe not the season for my favourite naturist camp, but oh, it would be so peaceful and so much relief to get away from all the commercialism and expectation...
Mmmmm - heaven!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Can't do short trips as my typical set up takes 4h to put up.
Not quite a glamper, however, I am becoming one with fairy lights and bunting etc...
Hence I would normally go for 4-nights or more. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Sounds like a fabulous idea to me...
In fact, I've been wondering what to do over xmas - and that sounds like a dream....
Maybe not the season for my favourite naturist camp, but oh, it would be so peaceful and so much relief to get away from all the commercialism and expectation...
Mmmmm - heaven!
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That's why I love camping, the solitude etc...
OK, the lappy does come with me on every trip, so I am not completely out of touch so to speak.
Besides, the tent is always tidier than my house. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"nothing weird about it pearl, just hope you don't get blown away like last year "
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The new tent is a proper Dutch pyramid canvas tent. It is supposed to have good storm resistance.
It also has a zipped in bath tub groundsheet, and is very cosy, as discovered during my test pitch in late October.
Hopefully, it will last me a good few years!  |
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Pearl - friends of ours are avid climbers/walkers/mountaineers/mountain bikers, and last yr when the kids were with their Father they went up to Eskdale in Cumbria, camped out on the site in Boot in -10 degrees temp then climbed their fave hill in the morning and had hot bacon and brie sandwiches for Xmas dinner whilst sat next to a frozen tarn and looking out over a snow-covered Cumbrian view - sounds great to me!
P.S. they also decided to get married whilst up there! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sorry Pearl, I think you're mad too, but spent many a Christmas and New Year up at Glenmore(Aviemore) in the tin tent, and there were always a few campers on the site.
For a number of years there was always a dad with his young son there, the boy could only have been about five the 1st year they appeared, and it wasn't unusual for the temperature to get down to -20!! However, one year when we got up in the morning, the father and son were wandering around the site, trying to find their tent which had taken off during the night!!!
But have a good one when it comes!  |
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Well we just bought a lovely big caravan with proper wet heating (radiators) so that we can use all year round so with you there... but a tent 
Im impressed by your spirit but isnt it buggeringly cold?  |
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By *ruitWoman
over a year ago
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I love camping and once woke up in a tent in November when I was a child on scout camp with snow outside. That was damn cold thi.
Camping is fab and I look great in the shaggy hair look lol |
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I used to camp when I was younger, I was a good girl guide. However Mr A decided a few years ago we should go down to the bottom of ireland for camping. We went bought a tent and sleeping bags ect.... it pissed down the whole time and was freezing, got half way home and the clutch cable went on the jeep. Had to be towed home from the south which cost a small fortune. Never ever ever ever again will I go camping. Its so not me, I like my comforts to much now and a bed to sleep in.
Pearl if it makes you happy, then go for it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'll have an electric fan heater and an under-blanket, plus an indoor gas heater if required. It will be nice and cosy!
I have done it before, over the New Year weekend in 2009/10, and loved it!
Yes it was cold, so cold that my suitcase stove that used butane gas canister ceased to function in the morning, and my Cadac Safari Chef HP stove that runs on 70/30 propane/butane gas canister was barely functional.
I got new stoves now that use liquid fuels and they work at low temperatures, so I am sorted, cooking wise! |
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