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Like camping in TV and film, camping in books is split into two, erm, camps. There's the 'Off we go a-camping in the Dell' type of children's books such as
Swallows and Amazons
and pretty much any Enid Blyton book not set in a boarding school, where rosy-cheeked youngsters swig …
Now that we've experimented with the
best way to build a campfire
, we thought we'd try and figure out how to cook on the thing without relying on army freeze-dried meals, hooking out charred tins of beans with a stick, or eating only the (albeit very yummy)
s'more
. …
'What's the best way to make a campfire?' I rashly asked my Facebook friends and acquaintances this week. After a range of responses from 'Light it in a wheelie bin' to 'Chuck some wood on a disposable barbeque', I decided to take matters into my own hands.
Armed with search …
That stellar lot at BBC4 repeated their documentary
Caravans: A British Love Affair
last month, which prompted us to have a muse about the history of sleeping under canvas or taking to the road in a vehicle with your own bed within. It's easy, inexpensive, flexible and just all round …
John Lewis Christmas ad? Exiled man on the moon? Pffffft.
What really gets one into the spirit of Chrimbo is a frosty, wrapped-up wander around a Christmas market. And some Christmas spirit is always welcome too: we'll have a (large) Baileys.
Someday we'll make a team-building/party weekend of it and …
Hello to everyone who visits Pitchup.com and many thanks to Dan and his team for letting me blog on the site. If you’re a regular at Pitchup.com, you’ll know that it has a section on parks that have received an environmental award under a scheme I help run. I am …
Winter is here! It’s apparently going to snow this week! We’re using lots of exclamation marks and trying to sound upbeat because otherwise we’ll collapse in a gibbering heap of ‘Where is the sunshine WHERE?’! Dark mornings, dark evenings, rain, cold and workworkwork, all without the prospect of even sitting …
Ah, other campers - can’t they be great? Sorry, we mean 'annoying'. For all the happy campers and friends for life we meet, there's always going to be the odd drunk who falls into your tent at 4am or parent who lets their kids screech all around the campsite at …
This week we welcome VisitWiltshire to the Pitchup.com blog with some tips for a winter holiday among Britain's finest Neolithic monuments, military museums and breweries and miles of rolling valley and downland.
Wiltshire is a county that actively welcomes campers and caravanners, as can be seen by the
selection of …
It’s the time of year when dreamy positivity takes over and we look forward to winter with
The Holiday
-style rose tinted glasses and naive romanticism – snowflakes gently falling, mulled wine brewing, cosy nights by the log fire in a
luxury lodge
…
Then bang. The other half suggests …
