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Googling 'camping stereotypes' (I'm nothing if not an intrepid researcher) brings up stories of 'camp', that strange American institution where quieter kids cry homesickly into their sleeping bags every night, noisier ones think it's hilarious to put spiders down other campers' backs, and parents all over the land gleefully clink …
Blog posts from august 2011
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Camping Stereotypes: Scurrilous Myths and Old Chestnuts about Camping
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Camping Fails: Top 5 Worst Camping Moments
af Laura Canning | guides
Bill Bryson should have known better. First, he decided to walk the Appalachian Trail , a 2,181 mile trek through from Maine to Georgia. Second, this is an area with bears. Proper big bears that can smell your food from way over there and come snuffling around your non-metal tent …
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Horse Racing: Giddyup to a Racecourse
af Laura Canning | events | guides
Bring out the silly hats! Yes, even if (especially if) you're a bloke...just nick your mother in law's one from when you got married. It’s summer and racecourse time, with meets all over the country so you can dress up (heels for men too), have a flutter on the gee-gees … -
Literary travel: a bookworm's trail of Britain
af Laura Canning | culture | guides
‘To be or not to be...’No, don’t hit the back button...Just because we were subjected to some awful books at school (they made me read The Cay when I could have been reading The Outsiders) doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all be into our books now.
Indeed, as my dear …
