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We’ve covered the best English castles and are now turning our attention north, partly because Scotland has the UK’s only Castle Trail (in Aberdeenshire : seventeen of them!) and partly because quite frankly we could spend all our holidays, forevermore, stomping around castles and peering out their windows wondering just …
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Of ruins and royalty - our top Scottish castles
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Gimme Shelter – Mick Jagger under canvas
by Laura Canning | news
Mick Jagger is going camping! Well, yurting (yes, that’s a word). The large-lipped one has
recently announced his intention of bedding down in a yurt
at
Glastonbury
this year rather than going for the usual rock ‘n’ roll option of a five-star hotel. To which we say woot. And welcome. … -
May bank holiday – the sequel: where to go and what to do this weekend
by Laura Canning | seasonal
Another May bank holiday! We are already dancing frenetically, packing our bags for the weekend and wondering wistfully how life would be if every Monday was a bank holiday, like, forever. (Bring it in, Cameron, this might make you popular.)The weather gods this week may be behaving like mad …
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Yes, we are there yet – best family festivals for 2013
by Laura Canning | guides | seasonal
Shurely, we once thought, the whole point of going to a festival was to muddily revel in freeeeeeedom from responsibility for a few days, whether that means freedom from studying, from work or from small offspring? (Especially from small offspring.) But now, things have changed.
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Seeing red? Where to find red squirrels in Britain
by Laura Canning | guides
Red squirrels are cute little critters. And that’s an Official Pitchup.com Proclamation, and you can quote us on that. But the little scamperers are spottable less and less in recent years, having been decimated by invading grey squirrels which are bigger, stronger and seemingly less intimidated by scampering about around … -
Frolics and festivals - what to do this May bank holiday
by Laura Canning | seasonal
Happy May Day! We hope – and fondly imagine – that y’all are twirling around maypoles, threading flowers through your hair and stepping out with some Morris dancing. (And pondering on revolution in between the frolicking: May 1 is also International Workers’ Day. To the barricades!)May Day celebrations have …
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Take the plunge – ten top outdoor swims
by Laura Canning | guides
'Outdoor pools’ may be synonymous to some as ‘skinny dipping’ but that’s merely evidence of filthy minds. Ours, mostly…If you’re up for some outdoor swimming now that summer is on its way, there are plenty of outdoor pool options in the UK, ranging from seaside and city lidos to secluded … -
What's in a name? Ten unusually named campsites
by Laura Canning | guides
A rose by any other name, penned the Bard, would smell as sweet. But as Anne Shirley earnestly points out to Marilla in Green Gables, that doesn’t always work. ‘I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage,’ the red-headed … -
Bring out the bluebells! Top bluebell walks in the UK
by Laura Canning | guides
Bring out the bluebells! This is not, as it may sound, a carefree celebratory whoop to flowers in the springtime, but an actual plea to whoever is in charge of the weather at the moment. Seriously. It’s like, April.
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Scary tales and survival guides – our top ten camping and outdoors apps
by Laura Canning | guides
‘If you’re appy and you know it clap your hands’ might not be the first song you think of for caterwauling around the campfire. But that was before there was a need for an ode to apps. A phone app that tells you how not to burn your food over …
