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21/7/2015 at 3:54pm
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I draw a distinction between 'wild' camping and ordinary car-based camping - just because your pitch is not on a campsite doesn't make it 'wild', even if the tent is a couple of dozen feet from the car.
For me, wild camping implies carrying all your gear and camping in really wild (and usually high) places - there aren't many of those in Norfolk 
Coincidently, my first real camping holiday (as opposed to camping with the Cadets at school) was along the north Norfolk coast back in the mid-1960s. My then-girlfriend and I borrowed a car from a mate and a tent from another mate and just set off with no idea where we'd camp. We slept under blankets on an old bed quilt. We had no stove so we drank cold drinks, ate sandwiches and salads in the day and had pub meals or fish'n'chips in the evening. Mind you, few pubs served food back then so we went to bed hungry at least twice.
We spent only one night on a 'proper' campsite, as I recall, near Cromer. The rest of the nights were in farmers' fields (with permission and without), on the seawall, in a layby, along a green lane, and even one night pitched on the village green at Salthouse right outside the Dun Cow. No-one bothered us or moved us on - things were much more laid-back in the 60s. But I never thought of that holiday as 'wild camping' - it was just camping.
Good luck LadyCake - let us know how you get on.
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