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My NEW tarp will be up in 4 weeks. In fact 4 weeks today we wil be packing the car for the Naismith TDF 2014.  If I wa buying a tarp for the UK I would have bought the Vango in black. I bought a large cream one for use as a sun shelter....and I digress at this point but I am sure someone will have some wsidom to impart.

Being a female and always up for romantic ambience, I purchased a 4m strig of beautiul fabric solar powered lanterns (IKEA), my OH pointed out " how are you goig to attached them to the tarp"  mmmmm, pegs I guess but I cannot fnd any clear ones, so I'm thinking alongthe lines of those tiny craft pegs that people use for hanging Christmas cards...if anyone has a better idea, pray  tell me. I had a look on the Hobby craft website and saw some ladybird pegs taht ooked quite sweet.   

One of my colleagues makes cards (those awful kit things), any way bless her she is giving me some hobby pegs with tiny ladybirds on......

Once in situ en Provence I will take some photographs and post them on the blog. I doubt we'll bother during the first few days in Savigny les Beaune will be a chill and aclimatize stop.

Quote: Originally posted by Mucker1884 on 23/7/2014

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Would be nice to see a new pic of you sat outside a tent, buddy... even if it isn't yours! Take your own chair, and camping mug!

Oh... and take it easy behind that wheel!

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Quote: Originally posted by Ewen c on 24/7/2014

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My tarp has been up in the garden since Saturday. Used 5 king poles. It also saw two weeks service this month in Normandy. Will post pics when have time to upload to photobucket.

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Have a look at Obelink, we bought a 'beauty' for our Provence trip (in 2 weeks).

Obelink are a Belgian based company, so you need to do a  'google' search.

The Belgians and Dutch seem much more in-une with camping equipement on a larger scale than we have, and the quality seems much better . A) I could not find a sun tarp in the UK at all B) the tarps I did find were relatively tiny i.e. Vango.

If you want some thing to act as a shelter over say a dining area i.e. more than just a shelter for the entrance I suggest you do a wider search thanthe UK companies.

We also have the Decathlon one at £20 but as its green (doesn't match this tent) and absolutley no good in the sun we bought another one  We pais about £60 and it had been reduced from £112.