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We pay more for the static once a year (which I still regard as camping of a sort!) in Cornwall than any of our friends pay for their airborne trips to Europe!

And in fact we chose tent camping as a general holiday lifestyle because it CAN be a cheap option, and a very delightful one!  If we choose, we can camp not too far from home, thus saving petrol.  We can camp on very basic sites, which are quiet and isolated and blissful, but also inexpensive.  We can save money on food, by taking pre-frozen stuff and tinned stuff and heating it at the tent instead of eating out.  We can even quaff our home-brewed beer and wine, and save oodles of $£$£$£!

It's still a REAL holiday... lying in a tent listening to owls and barking foxes at night is far more real to us than sitting round a concrete pool, feeling jealous of someone else's suntan or sunbed!

I just wish the sun could be persuaded to shine on our campsites a little more often!

FoO

In a shot, i'd be on that plane to go on a package hol... if i had more money!

i love camping, its ingrained in my soul. everything about going camping excites me and i get just as giddy packing for a hol abroad as i do about going camping, not sad..just true!

Quote: Originally posted by searchlighters on 01/10/2010

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What is wrong with both? I absolutely love camping despite protesting for years that I would never ever do it! My OH now complains that I am obsessed (particularly with this site    However, I still love my holidays abroad, and I'm not talking about package holidays to the Canaries or Spain! But even if I were, surely it's each to their own and by sl*gging off such holidays you are no better than someone who sl*gs off camping. Everyone has a right to enjoy their break the way they want to whether that be camping, jetting off to Spain, hiking in Canada or both?

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Quote: Originally posted by searchlighters on 01/10/2010

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What is wrong with both? I absolutely love camping despite protesting for years that I would never ever do it! My OH now complains that I am obsessed (particularly with this site    However, I still love my holidays abroad, and I'm not talking about package holidays to the Canaries or Spain! But even if I were, surely it's each to their own and by sl*gging off such holidays you are no better than someone who sl*gs off camping. Everyone has a right to enjoy their break the way they want to whether that be camping, jetting off to Spain, hiking in Canada or both?

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 Well said! This thread comes up every so often and as you say, it is just as bad being dismissive of others' tour operator package holidays as it is their dismissiveness of camping.

There are many types of holidays to be enjoyed, beyond camping or packages. My best ever holiday with the OH was a gite in the Loire Valley (eurotunnel and driving) and we go skiing once a year - can't really be achieved under canvas!