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Posted: 4/20/2008 8:18:38 AM | I went camping once as a kid and I hated it, Woke in the night with a massive spider crawling over my face......I screamed so loud I swear people thought there was someone being murdered 
But if I met a man who liked camping, I would go with him if he promised to protect me from creepy crawlies and bears. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 8:25:25 AM | | ive only ever camped at festivals......and absolutely loved it! finding a pitch amongst thousands of other tents, swearing youve only just fit it in yet somehow whenever you pop your head out some bugger else has squeezed another in.., falling out on how tent goes up, making up with airbed sex the minute its up! nothing better! | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 8:30:39 AM | I'm a camping newbie. I convinced my bezzie last year that camping would be a cheap holiday for us and the kids so last year we bought a tent and the bare essentials and went away for a few days. Firstly, a tent that contains four pre-menstrual women and a stroppy pre-teen does not make for a happy house. Add to that the fact that it was raining for most of the time we were there, well, you can guess how much fun we had. When we were told that there was a thunderstorm on the way we packed up and went home (and breathed a secret sigh of relief).
We tried again in September and this time we had a blast, it was great fun. We can't wait to do it again and hope to be joining a fishy camping meet at some point. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 8:48:56 AM | I love camping, just got home from the Chichester camp and can't wait to go again.
Already have a week booked at the end of May but may try and fit a weekend away before then, if I can fit it in between the pof meets!
I have to have a few luxuries, duvet and hot water bottle, especially this weekend but I don't take my hair dryer or straighteners, just put my hair up instead.
I wouldn't camp somewhere without a toilet/shower block.
Even with the bad weather this weekend we all had a great time. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 8:53:10 AM |
Camping seems to be the *in* holiday this year. I've lost count of the number of profiles saying how much they love to get back to nature, pitching their tent, rubbing 2 sticks together to light a fire (okay so that last bit I made up, but you get my drift ...)
I must be looking at the wrong profiles. I seem to find the ones where the guys are into package type holidays, 'the finer things in life', nice hotels, lying on a beach or by the pool, and so on. All of which are my idea of holiday hell.
I spent a lot of time camping in the past including a long period when I lived in my tent. This was all overseas in much warmer places. The first time I tried camping when I moved back to the UK I froze. I invested in a new tent and sleeping bag to cope with the British weather and now feel really snug (though I've not tried winter camping here yet). My tent is tiny so is easily carried, but is wonderfully designed so I can sit up in it and have room to get changed. Until recently when I updated my bathroom, the shower facilities on campsites were always better than the bucket shower I had at home and so campsite showers were a luxury to be looked forward to. Nice hotels might have their uses (e.g. if staying somewhere for work purposes), but given the choice of places to stay on holiday or a weekend break I'll always choose a tent over a hotel.
Now Honeybee, want to tell me where you're finding these profiles??? | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 8:59:03 AM | Well sheep, I would hazard a guess that every other guy profile i check out has *camping* as a hobby.
Tell you what, I'll swap the campers if you give me the finer things in life guys.
In fact I just went for a drink with a guy this weekend who loved nothing better than putting up his tent and spending his weekends back and foward the camp site (you can walk straight on to the beach). He said "you don't like camping do you" ... er .. blank look :0S | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 9:02:13 AM | My ex let the boys drink from a running stream and all of them came down with a dreadful bug
There are water purifying tables that you can get to help with that.
Try tincture of iodine. You can get it from the chemist. A few drops in a litre of water kills a lot more than the sterilising tablets do. Putting it on cuts, scratched bites and the like will stop them getting infected as well. It's even useful to have on hand in case of nuclear attack (something to do with protecting your thyroid?) About the only thing it can't do is protect you from chemical type pollutants in the water.
Tell you what, I'll swap the campers if you give me the finer things in life guys.
deal.
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Posted: 4/20/2008 9:04:38 AM | lying on a beach or by the pool, and so on. All of which are my idea of holiday hell
Would be my holiday hell too, how awful. I like to go pottering about, although I'm not overly into camping I prefer a country Inn or a barge boat, where I can moor up next to a country Inn tee hee.
Last time I went camping I shared with a mate who snores louder and i do and we caused quite a bit of hilarity amongst our fellow campers. But don't worry lasses I only snore if I'm drunk or got a full sack (a cert on Xmas Eve). | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 10:09:15 AM | Well I've just got home from a weekend in a tent, and when I've dried out and defrosted I'll try and remember why I love it so much *g*
I think there may have been lots of cider involved, but I have vague memories of some silly conversation on Thursday that went along the lines of "oooh, there's still snow on the summit of snowdon, lets give the iceaxes and crampons one more play... it'll be fun!" | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 10:55:00 AM | loved nothing better than putting up his tent and spending his weekends back
HB you sure he didn't say he liked spending his weekends on his back playing tents 
OT I hate camping ..... that's what Premier Travel Inns were invented for  | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 11:39:38 AM | I wouldn't go camping for the sake of sleeping under canvas (or is it nylon these days)
I always view camping as somewhere convenient to stay if im doing something else like fishing, windsurfing or mountain biking.
It has been known for me to spend weekend under an umbrella( a big one) when fishing at times.
Im not a fan of cooking when camping either too much hassle, porridge for breakie and pasta and sauce at night if there isn't a pub within staggering distance.
I hope to attend one of the camping meets this year but will have bike and or windsurfing kit intow | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 3:03:39 PM | I LOVE camping....I have two tents, a big one for weeks away and a smaller one that you can throw up for weekends away. And I LOVE shopping for all the camping bits and bobs. Have been known to cook a full english on a little camping stove in a storm but prefer to actually go out and eat cos I do not like washing up . Will go camping anytime of year as long as its not snowing! Mind you I would even do that if I could afford the proper gear. Its just sooooooo exciting even just thinking about it hahah.... I know, I know Im weird...One exboyfriend actually left me and my son stranded when camping one year, he took the car and buggered off home because there was a storm warning and I refused to budge haha. Dumped!
In fact I want to find a tall ruggedly handsome camping partner (male lol) who doesnt mind driving cos thats one thing I dont enjoy....the getting there. Any takers? | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 3:07:24 PM | wouldnt do it now....have done but now I like a wee bit of comfort for me auld bones
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Posted: 4/20/2008 3:14:23 PM | | I'm with you I LOVE camping.... I've camped at least twicw a year for the last 18 years and I wouldn't change a thing.....crossing to the loo in the pitch dark, is just part of the fun. My kids do the washing up it's strictly their job, I don't know what I'll do when they leave home Just had a weekend camping in Crianlarach it was cold think maybe we'll start the season later! Didn't realise that POF had camping meets, that'd be lots of fun. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 3:18:08 PM | After reading some of the replys camping can have all the nice things if you go in a car there are tonnes of campsites with deccent facilities. Makes life quite easy.
I think only time it might be un-comfortable for some people is wild camping and carrying everything around on your back with just the essentials. Winter camping isn't too bad at all as long as you have the right stuff. Biggest factor for keeping warm is having something deccent to sleep on like a thermarest. Makes a huge differance. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 4:03:40 PM | lol @ sum of the people on this thread tryin 2 make out campings cool n the in thing. I cant believe any1 actually gets any enjoyment out of it (unless the tents overlooking a decent dogging hotspot)
We`re in the millenium n i refuse 2 believe that people really choose 2 sleep outdoors for several nites couped up in a smelly tent in the pouring rain with insects crawling over em n living in fear of being molestered by the local grizzly bears.
People on this thread r even talkin about taking water purifying equiptment 2 combat the after effects of drinking rats piss n skinny dipping in duck faeces. Cmon people wat kinda holiday wud be enjoyable when u gotta take 200 litres of iodine jus 2 prevent urself from gettin sum kinda tropical disease.
Ya can get a decent priced package holiday 4 a week in tenerife 4 the same price of all the crap ya need for 2 nites camping.
And 4 dudes who take their women campin hopin 2 get sum, surely a campin holiday must be the sexual eqivilent of a geography field trip!! | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 4:17:24 PM |
Ya can get a decent priced package holiday 4 a week in tenerife 4 the same price of all the crap
Yes, and when there, you can drink in an English bar, and eat English food in an English resturant.
Might as well stay home..................... | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 4:21:55 PM | | It is possible to do both you know, i like my foreign hotel holidays as much as a damp tent with a warm woman. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 4:25:45 PM |
i like my foreign hotel holidays as much as a damp tent with a warm woman.
I`ll jus have a damp woman n not bother with the tent just the pole  | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 4:30:54 PM | I view Camping as a cheap and easy way of escape from the concrete jungle that is Coventry and there are very few things like waking up, stretching and taking in the amazing views like that of the valleys in Wales, the lakes or the likes. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 11:51:19 PM | 2 mass.....for me its not because its cheap. Do you think Im not aware of the cheap crass hols in Benidorm etc! I cant think of anything worse than a cheap holiday in a cheap hotel complete with bed bugs and****oaches. To be honest depending on where you stay it can be expensive.
For me its the sound of the rain on the fly sheet in the morning and the buzz you get hearing the wind in the middle of the night wondering if your tents gonna blow away haha. Waking up to the sound of birds and cows mooing, the cows not the birds obviously, and walking across the dewwy grass in the morning to the loos before you burst. I suppose I really should hate it as it was all we could afford when I was a kid and I was always jealous of my friends going Butlins but I rediscovered it a few years ago and although I do like hols abroad somewhere interesting, (not Benidorm), there just something about camping! | |
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Posted: 4/21/2008 12:03:52 AM | mostly camp with the sealed knot, usually food traders on site, so nice big burgers from various meats - lamb beef venison etc, beer tent open until the early morning
sleep on a wool lined mattress, nice and soft, tent is big enough to stand up in
I can use a gas burner if needed to make coffee in the ten, usually mains water on tap - made the mistake once of drinking stream water, but if in the highlands would use a water filter system
even got an 2 pint pee pot for those times when bursting as it were and not want to get dressed to goto the loos :) | |
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Posted: 4/21/2008 5:21:54 AM |
2 mass.....for me its not because its cheap
Yeh dam right it aint cheap when u slip n fall in a cow pat in ur best jeans n the stains dont come out.
do you think Im not aware of the cheap crass hols in Benidorm etc! I cant think of anything worse than a cheap holiday in a cheap hotel complete with bed bugs and****oaches.
Yeh exactly, why go 2 benidorm where theres a chance u may encounter bed bugs n****oaches when ya can sleep in a tent and be guaranteed 2 have far worse creepy crawlys 2 deal with??
For me its the sound of the rain on the fly sheet in the morning and the buzz you get hearing the wind in the middle of the night wondering if your tents gonna blow away haha. Waking up to the sound of birds and cows mooing, the cows not the birds obviously, and walking across the dewwy grass in the morning to the loos before you burst
Bloody ell, i think the above paragraph u wrote shows why people must be nuts 2 wanna sleep in a tent.
Who the fk wants 2 go 2 sleep at nite knowing theres a chance theyre gonna wake up freezin their balls off layed naked in the middle of a field because their accomodation has blown away in2 the nite n if ur really fortunate n ur tent doesnt blow away u can wake up crawl across damp grass on ur hands n knees, open the tent n come face 2 face with an angry moo cow cos uve set up home in his field and after uve escaped the cow n his friends ur burstin so u have 2 pee in a stream.
And people call this a holiday!!!!
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Posted: 4/21/2008 5:34:28 AM | Yeh dam right it aint cheap when u slip n fall in a cow pat in ur best jeans n the stains dont come out.
Fancy taking your 'best' jeans camping!?
I like camping but hate campsites.
I like it when your day is filled with taking the waterbutts to the natural spring in the side of the hill and having lug it back up, Collecting wood so you can cook on an open fire and keep warm, digging a hole & having a dump in the woods.
Real camping. | |
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... being all snuggy in a sleeping bag... wellies, the stars at night, the team work, & being out of a box, with no boxes to look at either! Gives you some sort of "feel good factor" I reckon! 
