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Quote: Originally posted by Klikchik on 29/7/2013

Quote: Originally posted by rainfollowsus on 29/7/2013Camping with 3 kids, my top five are:

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1. Bog in a bag, portable stool/potty, for night-time wee-wee's
2. Camping cupboard (storage on top AND underneath, and it folds up- lots of choices but we favour the "Hi gear Elite" (£39.99)
3. Large plastic cake box - Don't laugh, but as an alternative to a washing up bowl, this is SO handy. Use it to carry dirty dishes to the sink, wash and dry everything and pop the lid on to keep your dishes clean and away from flies an other bugs.
4. Kit Bag. A specific bag full of useful goodies such as carabina clips, cable ties, scissors, batteries, torches, string, spare tent pegs, tools etc
5. Turbie towels and hooded poncho towels.

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Bog in a Bag.....excellent, I used to have one of them but I drank so much beer the evening before that I needed a heavy duty bin bag to cope with all my trips during the night! We have now upgraded to a compact porta potti!
Really must get my act together re a kitchen unit. Still haven't looked properly yet. Yours sounds good, must have a look on line.
I LOVE the sound of your kit bag, my OH burst out laughing when she read it, cos she knows what Im like. 3 essentials in life, gaffer tape, silicone and cable ties and I have enough carabina clips to climb down the Scott monument without a rope!!!! Lol!

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Quote: Originally posted by mapletree on 24/8/2013

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Hi KlikChik

I'm just checking in as promised to let you know how we got on.

It went so well that we're searching for a poly cotton tent :o)

I feel we are following the same path as Mucker (starting with a vango icarus, and ending with a Kampa! - We've shortlisted to Kampa Filey, Outwell Wolf Lake & Royal Winnipeg.

We used every single space saving items - and we needed to, there was no room in our 4x4 (even with a roof box), and we had to take out one tent carpet, duvets, and pillows in order to fit everything in - although my DH agrees that losing pillows for those tiny camping pillows was a mistake...

So the space saving items we used a lot of:

Collapsible bucket by outwell - to cart and store water, it was also useful for washing the tent pegs off when packing up tent.

Collapsible kettle by outwell - superb, used everyday.

Collapsible washbowl by outwell - superb also.

Sleeping bags instead of duvets worked well for us.
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We used the big kitchen but I think we probably could get a much smaller one, so will do that for next time.

Not everyone had a great time at the festival, there were lots of tents that were blown down (it rained and had forceful gusts) - a lot of people didn't guy their tents entirely. Many people left a day early because of damaged and soaked tents.

Having an additional footprint under the tent helped us not get flooded out so we were relieved about that. We got a not so great pitch due to arriving late - it was down the bottom of a hill with ditches filled with water, we had no choice but to pitch over them.

Chemical toilet ended up being a godsend to us, as the toilets were blocked throughout weekend.

The only item we didn't use was the tarp due to arriving late - ran out of light to put it up.

We did fall short on lighting - although we had a 300 lumen lantern, the kids vango eyes and the maglite didn't give us quite enough light.

The item that was an absolute must have in our poly tent were the last minute purchase of Trespass Fleece blankets, we would not have got through the night without them, it was freezing, even with everyone sleeping in thermals, socks and fleeces.

Preparation paid ten times over, if we hadn't researched here and gained such good advice I doubt that my husband would want to go camping again, but he does, so thank you to everyone who contributed with advice, really appreciate it. Delta pegs were brilliant, probably the reason why our tent was still standing when others weren't.

How did you get on?








Post last edited on 24/08/2013 20:09:29

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