Yes I agree that when camping we definitely seem to be tired earlier. During August camping we would regularly be in bed by 10pm - we are planning camping this weekend and I reckon with the darker nights now it may be earlier! personally I put it down to all the fresh air, we do a lot of walking and being out in the fresh air all the time definitely makes you chill out more and so ready for bed much earlier.
Quote: Originally posted by nicdak on 05/9/2011
Yes ......personally I put it down to all the fresh air, we do a lot of walking and being out in the fresh air all the time definitely makes you chill out more and so ready for bed much earlier.
and sitting round a campfire makes you feel all snuggly and dozy... we were in bed by 10 every night on our trip to wales, left one poor bloke in our group up every night drinking on his own, we just couldnt stay awake after a few glasses of wine, followed by a hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows we just wanted to cosy up in the sleeping bag.
When we went to the river Dart Country park last august bank holiday at around 8pm lots of people started heading for the showers and by 8.30 -9.00 pm the site was so still, this was our first experience of staying on a site with no nighttime things to do , we usually choose sites with a clubhouse in the evenings, at home im in bed by 9, but camping its later if theres a clubhouse, Woodlands is another site with no night time things to do, so early night when we go here! Always up at 6.30 - 7.00 am when camping!!
------------- KIM.
2013 Season.
Upgraded from a TT to a caravan.
Loving it!
Roll on summer :-)
If we're camping alone (with the children) we tend to let them drop off then go to bed ourselves as we've usually been busy during the day, around 9-10 ish. But at a site recently we sat up just to watch the stars it was just lovely
If we're away with friends then we'll stay up much later...unless it's a CC site then of course you all have to be in bed and silent by 11 or you get your wrists slapped
------------- North Wales May 2014
Wirral July 2014
Arrowe brook farm July 2014
Bellingham August 2014
North Wales October 2014
Hayfield August 2014
Glad I'm not the only one to notice this, by the end of our week in Norfolk, it was getting earlier and earlier like 9pm and yes at home I'm a night owl, (as you will guess by the time of a lot of my posts. Today I'm on lunch break!)
Yeah we are early birds, even DH who is usually a real night owl.
It is all the activity during the day and the fact that we still wake quite early because there always seems to be a bird giving it all at the dawn chorus right next to our tent. lol
God yes, so happy to get into my sleeping bag early. Open air and it getting dark naturally i think does it!!
And yes normally up early, although our boys let us sleep in til 8am this morning - totally unheard of!!!
------------- Newbie Campers gathering vast amounts of kit
2 x 1 night trips and 1 x 2 nighters at Kelvdon Hatch
3 nights Sandringham
Last weekend coming up Epping Forest
3 year old boy twins
Choccy Labrador
7 Chickens (yes I leave them at home!)
We usually end up all going to bed at the same time - ages 3 to 35. Somewhere between 9 and 10pm generally. But then the rest of them sleep in until 9.30am and I am usually awake at 8ish.
we usually don't make it much past 9pm when camping. On our last trip, our latest was 11pm (on our last night cos we wanted to make the most of it cos it was our last camp for the year). At home, we generally go to bed around 10pm ish and then watch tv for an hour or so. But when we are camping we just can't keep our eyes open and end up heading off to bed early.
I agree - it is all that fresh air
------------- Jewelsm - a fair weather camper
August 2013, 14, 15, 16 & 17-Trevornick for two and a half weeks of sea and surf (and ever optimistic -lots of sun). Some other weekends if I can persuade DH