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We're on the verge of buying the Diablo 600. I'm itching to get it and go away so we can use it. The only reason we haven't bought it yet is because we were hoping that the price for the 2006 model would start going down more and more due to the 2007 model being launched.

We also need to get something to cook on. We've been camping before so we've got the airbeds, lantern, EHU and other bits and pieces.

Our plan is to get the tent within the next month or so and then take it down to the Cotswolds for a long weekend before going to Newquay in July.

I can't wait!

Thanks for your messages of support. We did manage to put up tent in back garden (were unable to put up porch properly as we ran out of grass) without too many problems and hope to get the pitch time down with practice.  My son and I were proud of ourselves that we were able to fold tent to fit back into bag - pleased with out choice of tent.

Enjoy and have fun!

We all started somewhere and had to pitch for the first time in public. Even the most seasoned camper can get stuck with a new piece of kit or tent.

It can be a laugh granted and we've caused a few laughs, always laughing with us, not at us!  You have to take a light hearted view of the whole thing and don't take yourself too seriously  one of my favourite passtimes is having a good chat and wee nosy with folks, see what they do and pick up a few tips. It's amazing how we all do things differently and use kit essential to some and useless to others!

As long as you can sleep comfy, eat and stay dry your ready to give it a go! (for a couple of nights anyway) you'll soon get a wee routine all your own and it doesn't take long.

Happy camping

Shirley x

People might well laugh, but I bet if they see you struggling they will come and offer to help too! Last Summer we has a nightmarish trip to Hunstanton with torrential rain and galeforce winds. Tents were collapsing left right and centre and the whole field of people were mucking in to help people. Our tent collapsed and I bundled the kids out of it into the car and took them to the next site where my parents were in a static. Came back to our field and my husband was lying on the tent, unpegged, with an assortment of people I had never seen before lying all over him to stop the tent blowing away, it was that windy. It was pitch black, piddling down with rain, blowing a gale and it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, this jumble of limbs of about 15 people!!

Don't worry, you'll be fine.

Amanda

People will often come and "help" even without being asked, last summer me, thomas lucy and a 16wk old bob the lab went away for a weekend, started to unpack and before I knew it I had 4 men come along and put the tent up for me, it's only a 4 man wynnster buzzard and I could easily have done it myself but I think they felt sorry for me with the dog and unhelpful children.

Kate

Do not worry about people laughing at ya we have been putting our trailer tent up for three years now and its still never straight! They say practice makes perfect so we'll see. It never goes up the same twice but with plenty of adjusting its usually perfect by the time we have to pack it away!  Happy Camping.