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  1. Of pumpkins and zombies - autumnal October events

    October 2, 2012
    by | events




    Not the standard autumn festival
    Autumn is here! I’ve dug out my favourite leaf-kicking boots and my Matrix-style long leather coat (which looks hilarious at 5’3), scowled at the new influx of students talking loudly and importantly in my local coffee shop (they’ll keep), and found last year’s safety goggles for this year’s conker wars …

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  2. Cornwall police crack down on mankinis

    September 28, 2012
    by | destinations




    Newquay Holiday Park
    It’s not often that I shake my head and say ‘Those poor police officers’. But the phrase has been forced from me today, on hearing the news that police in Newquay have been forced to deal with mankinis. So much so that they’re now banned in the Cornish town.



    It’s …

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  3. Big Yellow Tent Madness, Kentucky style

    September 21, 2012
    by | news

    Now we shouldn't laugh too much, but we're going to, and conveniently forget all those times we too struggled to put up a tent. In our defence though, the times we took forty minutes fighting with the canvas we did manage to get the tent up eventually, unlike this hapless …

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  4. Never mind the closing ceremony - here's British music

    August 14, 2012
    by | destinations | guides

    'Not Stairway to Heaven again, dear...' ‘A symphony of British music,’ they said.


     


    ‘The best of British music over the past half century,’ they said.


    Hmph. Watching the Olympics closing ceremony, we mused on just what ‘British music’ was meant to be. This was in between wondering if the Rolling Stones had come on while …

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  5. Take the high road - summer in Scotland

    August 1, 2012
    by | destinations

    August is Scotland month. And September, and October... August is Scotland month! We’re getting excited about the Edinburgh Festival Fringe starting this weekend and going right through until 27 August with hundreds of acts including 111 for children. The ‘official’ Edinburgh International Festival starts on 10 August and takes culture vultures up until 2 September, and August in …

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  6. No sport? What to do in the UK this August

    July 30, 2012
    by | destinations

    Watch some bog snorkelling this August Apparently there is some big sporting event on this month. This is all well and jolly, and we very much enjoyed seeing the banishment of a giant Voldemort at the opening ceremony on Friday, but our mum says we need to get out and get some fresh air too. And …

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  7. Campsite of the week: eco-camp, Oban

    July 27, 2012
    by | destinations

    Isle of Lismore Small doesn’t have to mean few facilities, as this week’s featured site, eco-camp on the Isle of Lismore, shows. There are just five carefully selected pitches here, but the site owners offer a full laundry service, will deliver home-cooked food (and wine) to your tent, set a tent up for …

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  8. Bickering and bust ups abroad

    July 27, 2012
    by | industry news




    A properly packed suitcase
    We’ve heard this week how

    camping is less stressful than going abroad

    , which anyone with an ounce of sense could have told you anyway. But now it seems that as well as struggling with passport control, giant foreign winged beasties and having to pay to get jabbed in the …

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  9. Celebrity campervanners

    July 26, 2012
    by | industry news




    From

    Kate Moss

    to

    Tom Cruise

    ,

    Sir Paul McCartney

    to

    Eva Longoria

    , camping, glamping and sleeping under the stars has been rising in popularity for some time for

    the world’s celebrities

    . But some of them take it even further, kitting out their own campervan or motorhome to …

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  10. Escape the city - five short breaks from London

    July 25, 2012
    by | destinations




    These boots are made for resting
    So. You’ve come all the way to Britain – or all the way to London – for the Olympics and you’re fully enjoying the party atmosphere that’ll be happening in the city from this weekend. (Or in Albert Square from Monday, if Eastenders is anything to go by.) But with …

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