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Subject Topic: Got the camping bug!!!
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14/4/2013 at 7:50pm
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I got the bug late in life ...

Dangerous though ... the gypsy in my soul


14/4/2013 at 8:13pm
 Location: South Wales
 Outfit: Vango Vista 800 & Lichfield Cherokee 3
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This will be our fourth year camping and our kits changed completely since the first year.

To test if we liked it or not we bought a tiny 3 birth tent where 4 of us squeezed into it, our other kit only consisted of was sleeping bag/foam mats and one of the single ring gas cartridge cookers.

Now we have an 8 birth tent, camp beds, EHU, storage unit, table, kitchen unit and one of those ovens with the two rings on top.

We also only used the boot of the car to take all our kit, now we have a roof box and trailer!


15/4/2013 at 7:50am
 Location: North East
 Outfit: Vango Tigris 600XL & Abbey Monza
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Do yourself a favour, and something I should have done! Research. Research. Research. The tent we bought was not the best suited, but was an eBay buy, and I wish I had researched and looked about more. Now, after 3 trips away in it I cannot imagine it will be coming again! I wish I had bought standing height kitchen tables, as cooking and bending are a nightmare. Also, we took so much stuff last time it took 4 hours to pack and unpitch!!!!! 4 hours!!!! So, before you buy it, think, "will I use it/do I NEED it, and do I want the hassle of building/dismantling/cleaning/packing up/taking up room in car or trailer".

That said, enjoy. We came to it late, only last year. We started with nothing, 4 trips later and a trailer on I'm still buying.

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2017

April - Haggerston Castle
May - Beadnell THS


15/4/2013 at 9:40am
 Location: Lincolnshire
 Outfit: outwell Cougar Lake vango Shangri-la
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We only started camping as a couple last year......OH was a late developer......but we love it and spend ages on this forum, looking at camping outlets online and going to camping displays in our local area and always seem to find something that we have to have.

In a year we have bought 3 tents and now think we have bought the right tent for us..........for about the next 6 months anyway

It's just the 2 of us as our boys are all adults now, but going camping brings back very fond memories of lots of laughter camping as a child, but with the amount of kit we take you would think a large family was in our tent......we do like to be comfortable lol

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Dawn


15/4/2013 at 6:15pm
 Location: scotland
 Outfit: vango monte verde 900
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Poppet sounds much the same as my story and I think if you start with very little and build it up it can be come very addictive im hoping that after 10 yrs of this camping malarkey my set up is everything that I want .....but deep down I know that every time aldis or go outdoors send me a news letter with camping gear in it I will go like a shot just to have a wee look mind you lol !!!

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20/4/2013 at 9:52am
 Location: Scotland
 Outfit: Hi Gear Frontier 6
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Ok so we have narrowed down our tents to a new vango Maritsa 500 or a second hand vango aspen 500 DLX only thing putting us off the aspen is the pitching any info/suggestions would help.

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Returning to camping ....... Forgot how good camping can be.

2013

April - Faskally, Pitlochry
May - Witches Craig, Stirling
May - Auchinlearie, Gatehouse of Fleet

2014
No camping had a baby

2015
April Southerness


20/4/2013 at 10:46am
 Location: Derby
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Welcome.

I'm new here too and in the process of planning my first camping trip. The advice here has been fantastic. I was saved from a life of an Argos value tent and CO poisoning.

I got the bug before I've ever been camping. I've always wanted to go though and now my life and finances are permitting.

Welcome here. Look to your purse and bank statements. Wave goodbye ;).

EDIT: Carey a quick youtube search has found this video of how to pitch the tent so it may give you an idea. Apologies for not being able to code the link on my phone.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pkFCpkthrOA

Damian


20/4/2013 at 1:17pm
 Location: Derby.
 Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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Damian's link HERE

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2024: 38 nights thus far...
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2020: Just 24 nights
2019: A personal best 50 nights
2018: Just the 30 nights
2017: 34 nights
2016: 32 nights
2015: 38 nights
2014: 34 nights
2013: 36 nights
From July 2012: 23 nights



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