Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 21/2/2006
(I actually have seven tents at the moment....but we don`t talk about that sort of behaviour, do we.....???)
Wow! I thought I was bad with 5 (plus a beach shelter, and now I am eying up the bargain Khyam screenhouse on Aspinalls seconds page...)Will be catching you up very soon Val!
Anyway this afternoon i couldnt contain myself any longer we went out and bought the brekenridge deluxe! I fell in love with it the other day, and with hubby being so big i think we need the extra headroom in the bedroom!! and with my initial thought about the extra storage space and what you had said we did decide to go for the bigger one!
we will be going away for weekends as well as longer hols, but i think having 3 boistrous boys that run everywhere and fall over everything we defo need the bigger one!
im sooo excited now i cant wait to get it out and have a go! (patience is not one of my strong points!)
Great choice, nice tent, good that you went for the bigger one. You won`t regret it.
Seven tents is easy, btw. Big Vango Colorado, smaller Gelert Cadiz 5+2 for weekends, three pup tents (was given two of these) Vango Force Ten from the camping days of before kids, Sunncamp Utility tent. I still nominally own a 70`s trailer tent that lives in a friends garage and which she uses as marquee/overflow sleeping area in summer/shop unit at craft sales (!). Oh, and we have a beach shelter tent as well.
I`d like a trailer tent again though. One day Hubby will have come home from work and I`ll have knocked a hole through the back wall so we can store one in the back garden.
We've already bought some stuff, but still got bits to buy- i love spending money! i bought a halogen heater aswell at the time i thought it was a good idea, but now i'm not so sure, i mean its not gonna be any good if we cant get electric on the site is it? and i'm not convinced its gonna be safe with the kids or the tent!! you dont think it'll melt the tent do you?????
Have you tried the halogen heater out Claire? We found that the halogen we bought didn't heat up the surrounding air at all - we could only feel heat if we were directly in front of it....so we returned it and bought a little fan heater which is truly marvellous!
------------- Claire x
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Hi Claire. Welcome to the funny farm. Now you've just got to fill your new home from home! Buying the tent was the easy part!
More advice.... dont do what we did and go mad. We have stuff we're never likely to use like a collapsible larder and wardrobes. Tried them out and found them to much of a bind. Its all about trial and error.
The most important thing to remember to take with you...... your smiles because you'll be using them the most!
Terry
Post last edited on 24/02/2006 02:13:54
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