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25/8/2015 at 10:36am
Location: norfolk
Outfit: vango tempest 200 icarus 500
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i do lots of 1 nighters. the trick is to pack light, no "fripperies". take enough food etc, not enough for a week!
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25/8/2015 at 11:42am
Location: N. Ireland
Outfit: Elddis Xplore 304
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It's a balance between comfort and light travelling. For us for 1 or 2 nights that means we just take a small tent, sleeping bag of course, chairs, a tarp to sit under and an airbed and a blanket for the floor below the bed. Take only 1 simple stove to reheat a dinner in a saucepan one night, and then eat out the second. There are no frills like electric hookup, toilet tent, fridge or coolbox (take tea black, use cappucino packets that include milk granules).
It can be daunting at first, but you owe it to yourself to give it a go now that you have the gear. You can't teach experience, and the first time you go out is when you'll learn the most. Enjoy :)
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26/8/2015 at 8:45am
Location: North Devon
Outfit: Compass Omega 432
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On the flip side, some years we booked a pitch on CL site with EHU, for week stay. Arrived 12noon, arrived at allocated pitch to find a caravan sitting there with its occupants. They proceeded to take all afternoon to drink tea and chat finally wound the jacks up and left around 6pm.
We had a Trailer tent, spent the evening pitching, when we should have been settled in.
Not amused, especially when the site regulations asked that the pitch be vacated 12noon.
I don't mind if people are packing up and are running over time, but to sit on the pitch and just drift away late is inconsiderate if there are others booked on.
Should mention the owners of the site were away all day.
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26/8/2015 at 9:34am
Location: norfolk
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i`d be asking them to shift too!
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27/8/2015 at 11:34pm
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One night. I'm doing the same on Sunday. Having loaded the kitchen sink (literally) before - I have to say, I am looking forward to the simplicity of basic camping with the absolute bare essentials,.
If my boys and I had our way, we'd pitch up in the farmers field next to the site and rustle up our own dinner from the warren, cooked on wood from the forest and not a gas canister in sight. Then a nice soak in a hot bath at hoe the next day with a roast in the oven!
If it rains, enjoy the bonding through playing cards, horror stories and farmhouse cider / scotch, tea coffee stew hot chocolate etc., p**sing in a pan and mastering handwashing from a bowl of soapy water and the ultimate hand drier (jumper!).
Seriously, less stuff, less time setting up. Less time packing down and then putting in the garage/lift when you get back. If the sky is clear, enjoy the best star gazing, chatter of neighbouring campers, zips and caughs. Plus the potential for shooting stars before sleep and warming beautiful sunrise with a waft of bacon and the sound of whistling kettles.
Enjoy it
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