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No worries.  My kit always looks huge and impossible when it's sitting in the living-room, but bit-by-bit it goes in.  Put all your rolled-up stuff in nooks and crannies in the car.  Stand the washing-up rack and chairs and table(?) (the thing in green bag?) behind the driver's seat, upright so they take up less space.  Tent and bags in the boot, cool-box in the well behind the passenger seat, blue box on the back seat.  Oodles of room... you'll be able to take the wardobe from the bedroom too, if you want to!

If you have kids or dogs, though, you may need a roof-rack...

FoO

Quote: Originally posted by elsadog on 09/4/2010

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It'll fit easily if you get rid of the supermarket trolley

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Quote: Originally posted by FriendOfOwls on 09/4/2010

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No worries.  My kit always looks huge and impossible when it's sitting in the living-room, but bit-by-bit it goes in.  Put all your rolled-up stuff in nooks and crannies in the car.  Stand the washing-up rack and chairs and table(?) (the thing in green bag?) behind the driver's seat, upright so they take up less space.  Tent and bags in the boot, cool-box in the well behind the passenger seat, blue box on the back seat.  Oodles of room... you'll be able to take the wardobe from the bedroom too, if you want to!

If you have kids or dogs, though, you may need a roof-rack...

FoO

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I'm planning to split the back seat of my car as one son can sit up front and the other can sit in the back. I've got a camp cupboard in a bag like your green bag and I've no idea how I'm going to find a space for that! I think I'll have a trial boot pack.

With a five-year-old it will be a challenge, but I'm certain you can still do it.

We have a Renault Megane, and that's not a big car, and we take more kit than you have in the picture..  We've only ever used the roof rack for surfboards when we go to Cornwall.

FoO

Quote: Originally posted by dcope on 12/4/2010

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well managed to get it all in including the 5 year old.

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The joys of camping 

i remember last year doing a trial pack,taking photo's and writing it down as it was like doing a jigsaw puzzle.

I loved watching cars pulling on to camp last year and seeing them turn into a "mary poppins bag"   

That's a lovely picture of your son, and well done you for getting all that in. It's particularly good to see it all looking so secure, as one of the things I was worried about when splitting the seat was unsecured objects flying around the cab - particularly if I got caught up in an accident or if I needed to make an emergency stop! You seem to have it wedged in such a way that it's solid.