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Huh, We arrived at our campsite, and the ground looked very sandy/stoney. Sure enough, once we had laid out our tent, got the poles in and erected it. We sat inside relaxing, when my DS spotted a tear in the side wall, about 1 and half foot long.

It must have caught on a sharp stone and tore the material, as we dragged it out to get it to lie flat to put the poles in. Amazing, as the tear looked like it had been cut with a sharp knife.

Luckily,  I spotted a lady camper a few tents away, who looked very organised, and sure enough, she had a reel of gaffer tape and scissors, and I was able to repair it.

I used to take 2 bits of wood to level up the camp kitchen on my TT on uneven ground..In the middle of frying breakfast one morning when the wood slipped kitchen tips to one side...hot fat all over the extension wall!!!!

Was off this w/end..family pitched my tent(I only had to put my bed etc in it..Having arrived later than expected We decided to have a meal before setting the rest of it up...Well fed...I go to start...unzipped a door..stooped down to get in and hit an invisible force field...For some reason I had only unzipped the door and left the mozzie net in place...Luckily I bounced off with no damage done...but its a stramge feeling when your expecting to enter a space to find your way barred by something unseen.........

Jelboy.

Quote: Originally posted by hunterxf382 on 09/8/2010

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Quiet a few years ago, I went on a camping adventure on my then new motorbike ('96 or thereabouts) down to Newgale in Pembrokeshire, <snip>

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Quote: Originally posted by petemillis on 10/8/2010

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That's feckin' fantastic touring on a small cc bike like that. Good cheap way to do it. It makes me laugh when I see people on the large and very expensive KTM and BMW Dakar type bikes, all done up proper for touring......yet the longest trip they do is a few miles pottering around on a sunny Sunday! Brilliant.

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Quote: Originally posted by galdeb69 on 09/8/2010

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Quote: Originally posted by Tulip98 on 08/8/2010

Waking up at 5am thinking something wasn't right, basically the tent pole was on my nose! Got out, tried to fix it, went back to sleep. My co-camper did the same about an hour later, weirdly we both slept through each other trying to fix it. Most of the poles had split, but as my friend said when we tried again to fix it after crawling out of it 'at least it didn't leak'.

It wsa the windiest campsite in the world and at 8am we went out to buy two 'emergency tents'.When we came back it was total collapse and we spent quite a bit of time in torrential rain rescuing stuff out of it.  It was an awful inherited tent though, the Vango Icarus so far so good, but avoiding campsites which say they are very windy!

It was very funny but not what you want to do doing a few hours into a camping trip.

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Where was this, so I can avoid it. I am always worried about the wind, whether I stay, had a bad experience at North Berwick one weekend, at a very exposed site.

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We bought a new tent with SIG and on the 3rd day off the holiday i dropped a sharp knife which went straight through the ground sheet, told my OH if he had done the cooking it would not have happened, luckily he saw the funny side  and went to search for the patches to cover it.

alison 46