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08/4/2019 at 9:47pm
Location: North Devon
Outfit: Robens Fairbanks Coleman Phad X3
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Mine/ours was a Millets three man dome with little porch.
I'd guess this is the modern equivalent. It lasted years despite what people on here say about nylon tents and we had a whole lot of fun in it, went all over France and to Spain in titchy cars including over the Pyrenees in a Fiat 500. Don't really miss the tent but like pnefan miss being young.
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09/4/2019 at 6:41pm
Location: Rossendale Valley UK
Outfit: Karsten 300 FFW CA EA RA
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For me it's not so much the tent which would be an old Niger tent whilst in the cub's/scouts. I don't really miss anything from it but and it's a big but....the memories are priceless. First chance I got to go out without family members to far flung places a whole 2 hours away!
Draughty, smelly, dirty, heavy and hard to fold up....wouldn't change a thing! Great topic.
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09/4/2019 at 9:36pm
Location: Suffolk
Outfit: Very variable
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Still got and use (two) Good Companions...……..
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09/4/2019 at 10:21pm
Location: Nottingham
Outfit: Outwell
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Kampa Croyde 6.
Steel poles :D
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12/4/2019 at 4:19pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: Karsten 350
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I miss my youth!
Can't remember the make, it was a 3 man dome tent with bamboo poles, an awful green flysheet and a small pink porch area. Stuck out like a saw thumb in a field, but had many a fun trip in it, especially as a boy scout.
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12/4/2019 at 11:31pm
Location: Glossop - Gateway to the Dark Peak
Outfit: KAMPA Frinton 5 Outwell Nevada S
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I had a 2-man ridge tent when I was a pup and I can't say that I miss it apart from the nostalgia - it was very much a tent of it's day.
The first tent that I bought to take my boys camping was a Coleman Lakeland 4 and I do not miss it at all. No sewn-in groundsheet in the poxy-small living area meant it was unusable on midge-infested sites and the poles were a rather cheap metal that split on me in the Lakes. Lots of Duck Tape got us through that camp - just - but it was quickly replaced after that.
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13/4/2019 at 6:46am
Location: Derby.
Outfit: T6 Hi-Top & Karsten
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We went from Vango Icarus 500 to Kampa Filey 6 Classic + Kampa Frinton 4 Classic, all within the first few months of our camping career.
The only thing I missed was that, due to the direction of the way the bedroom doors opened, we went from beds (2 x singles) being to the outside edges of the room, with shared storage/dressing space being the spacious (and tallest) part to the centre of the room (in the Vango), to pushing the beds together centrally, and each having a smaller separate storage/dressing area to each outside edge of the room (in both Kampa's).
To be fair, we've since gone to a single room tent, effectively with no separate bedroom, and still have the beds pushed together centrally, but I still miss being as far away from Muckerette as possible!
Ear plugs help on one score, of course, but not with the bloody fidgeting!
If only Karsten did an inflatable vis-a-vis!
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). It was a win-win situation--the caravanners could shoot off every weekend to a "rally" ..this is where people go to sit in a tiny box and watch a tiny tv in the middle of a field before meeting up on evenings to sit on hay-bales and discuss "outfits"before returning for a wee in a tiny tent full of creepy crawlies-- and I would be living the dream in my bright orange tent(camoflaged with branches etc so the farmer wouldnt see).
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