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Posted: 4/23/2008 6:13:29 AM | | camping is the holiday, to do, its cheap and wot more can you have then the outdoors, it good if you have children, they can run free, make new friends, me and my chlidren, camp three times, a year,,we love it, i went on the pof camp, which was realy great, you dont need the sun to have fun, everyone should try it , if you dont like it on the frist time, then you dont have to do it again, | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 6:25:06 AM | I camp lots throughout the Summer - usually with several thousand others, and within earshot of 24/7 music!
I love my tent at festivals. It's my home and my haven, and over the years I've bought/acquired everything I need for a comfortable few days.
I've done a few just-for-the-sake-of-it camping trips, too (though only on a camp site a couple of times when my daughter was little, and wanted the entertainment of other campers).
Having said all of that - I'm not against a few days in a luxury hotel, being waited on hand and foot either! | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 7:04:13 AM |
So what is it with camping exactly, and why is it such a favourite pastime?
I hate camping. I dont know why people do it.
I like driving around the country side, walking around the country side, but camping?! Nuh-Uh! Nehi.
Would never do it in a million years.
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Posted: 4/23/2008 7:42:43 AM | Some people must of had some bad experiences can't say I've ever woke up freezing or with bugs crawling over me... My tents never blown down and I've never woken up soaked I haven't been ill from food or water. Haven't had to get soaked going to the loo. About the worst is when a not so friendly looking bull seemed to have claimed the field between me and my tent.
All good experiences and memorys for me I enjoy it. | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 10:08:23 AM |
Would never do it in a million years.
Where is your sense of adventure?
Have you ever been camping?
Its a very romantic thing to do. | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 12:18:29 PM |
Where is your sense of adventure?
Finding the right shoes is a great adventure, finding the right handbag to go with the shoes add another day to the adventure.
Have you ever been camping?
What for?
I have a house and it has beds in it, it has toilet, it has bath, it has shower, it has kitchen, it has... everything i need. Why the F do i want to go effing camping for?
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Posted: 4/23/2008 12:27:21 PM | I went youth hostelling and camping in my teens, had great fun then grew up and discovered 4 star.
Then had sprog, made the mistake of reading him Enid Blyton, have been persuaded we need to have some "adventures", and will be attempting camping again this year with him. I consider it yet another maternal sacrifice on my part. I reckon we'll probably have a great time but that I'll spend 3 hours in a nice hot bubble bath when we get home! | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 12:29:20 PM | Ive yet to have a good camping experience,been a few times starting in childhood gave up in my twenties!!
I always tend to forget essentials like pillows/hairbrushes and have to endure looking like a hobo for the entire time .
I have fallen down potholes and sprained my ankle twice
I have suffered gut-rot from undercooked bangers,now theres a situation you really dont want in a tent
I have fallen into freezing cold dirty swamps disguised as streams
I have even suffered from mistaken tent identity and seen things i really should have been spared
I have suffered drunken/snoring wilderbeast sharing tent scenario
I DONT LIKE CAMPING...STICK IT | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 12:32:48 PM |
Why the F do i want to go effing camping for?
For the simple fact that you've never done it before (I can only assume).
I'm scared of heights but I still went up in a hot-air balloon.
I think i'd hate the taste of caviar but i'd still try it.
I think you should try getting back to basics and experience life how generations did before you, if only to make you more grateful of the luxuries you enjoy in this life.
I have elderly relatives abroad who still fetch water from a well, I've done it so I appreciate my taps more.
Maybe its a materialistic thing? Those who have no aspirations to go camping or even try it at all just cannot live without those little materialistic luxuries. The thought of being without them is horrendous.
I like the idea of being completely self-sufficient, working solely for money so I don't need to use money anymore. | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 12:46:36 PM |
For the simple fact that you've never done it before (I can only assume).
I have done it when i was at school.
I also did all the things that you do like cooking with matchsticks.. etcs.
I think you should try getting back to basics and experience life how generations did before you, if only to make you more grateful of the luxuries you enjoy in this life.
What for?
Evolution suggests we dont go backwards. We go forwards. To experience life from generations ago, we read books.
Maybe its a materialistic thing? Those who have no aspirations to go camping or even try it at all just cannot live without those little materialistic luxuries. The thought of being without them is horrendous.
Hit the nail on the head. That is correct. | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 1:15:01 PM |
Evolution suggests we dont go backwards. We go forwards. To experience life from generations ago, we read books.
But to determine the future we must look to the past.
Just look at the wombles...They were the pioneers of recycling time ago.
...but seeing as though i'm going completely off-topic i'll shut up now. | |
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Posted: 4/23/2008 2:04:00 PM |
But to determine the future we must look to the past.
Who has said that? And Why? What has future got to do with the past? And what is all that got to do with Camping?!
Just look at the wombles...They were the pioneers of recycling time ago.
The wombles were puppets. They were not real. They never left the TV studio.
#under ground, over ground, wombling free, the wombles of wimbledon bollocks are we...#
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Posted: 4/23/2008 3:31:58 PM | | Camping is not generally my thing but a Côte d'Azur beach is bliss compared to almost anywhere in the Australian bush. There your companions can expect to be... flies, spiders, snakes, lizards and millions of bulldog ants! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_ant | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 9:02:00 AM | aww.. i luv camping... :) i always have fun :) just once we was campin wiw ma school n i ddnt knew it gna be soooo freeeeezing :D i couldnt sleep cuz it was so cold :D yeap :D n one summer i spend almous all summer sleepin in tent :D good times... it was be4 2 years i think :D maybe 3 :D dnt remember now :D but still it was cool :D i luv sittin near fire.. its nice :) i missed dat :) i dnt think in uk i will go camping :D cuz ma friends r bit lazy.. n i dnt their parents would let em.. :D i could make campin in ma garden.. but ground is not good :D i mean its not ground but some not nice stuff :D dnt know how 2 call it :D  | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 9:09:46 AM | | had loads of fun camping over the years! as long as you got good company plenty of the strong stuff its sorted xx | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 9:58:02 AM | why all the moaning about camping ?.
its good for the soul,gets you in the fresh air,and if you dont like the neighbours you can move your tent lol.
SO IF YOU HAVNT TRIED IT GIVE IT A GO YOU JUST MIGHT BE PLEASANTLY SUPPRISED ! | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 11:04:03 AM | | I love camping. In fact I am packing tonight for a 4 day weekend with 64 other people I know. It is going to be brilliant. Fresh air, lovely chats around the camp fire, sleeping outdoors, having to find your way to the loo in the middle of the night, not caring about what you look like and everyone else being in the same boat, the rain on the tent. I love it! I just don't like the sun making it like an oven in the summer months. | |
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Posted: 4/24/2008 4:20:44 PM | Its all about being at one with nature as well as a whole lot more, the enjoyment of the great outdoors and everything it can offer.
What is it with people going on holiday abroad where they do nothing but lie on a beach for 7 days? I can't see the attraction in that to be honest. | |
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Posted: 6/18/2008 9:03:34 AM | OK what is it about camping, true there are no en suite bathrooms to be had, though you can have a special little tent for your own loo which you have to empty. But these are the minuses.
On the plus side, you are closer to nature, you can get away from tv`s , telephones and the internet by leaving them all at home by not getting an electric hook-up,
You have to be imaginative with the cooker as you have limited cooking space or visit a local pub for a meal which you may not readily do otherwise.
Over the years that I have been camping I have found it a great leveler of humanity. I have met lords and ladies, well known actors and actresses, singers of some note. People both of my grans cleaned floors for in the past.
The one who never went camping always felt beneath those with money and status in some way, where as the one who went camping saw those same people as equals, human beings, and was treated as such by them.
And OK there can be a class struture in the camping world as to who has the lightest, biggest, quickest to put tent, but all said and done, we are all equal under canvas.
And you only get as close to nature as you can handle, that is why we have caravans, basically tents with wheels
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Posted: 6/18/2008 9:31:56 AM | Camping is brilliant - I like some others have two tents - one that's small enough for me to carry and put up and fits nicely in the car, and the other that's a little bit smaller so that I can fit it on the back of my motorbike.
I love the adventure of going somewhere "different" where the views can be fantastic as well as the hustle and bustle of a bike rally, where the tents are almost on top of each other.
On the bike it's always a challenge to pack everything I need in the small amount of space that I have, but even then usually manage to pack everything I need, including my mini camp kitchen that fits on the tank, my airbed (which has it's own internal pump) and yes I can still find room to pack my gas powered straightners and enough nice outfits to see me through the weekend.
I've already camped out twice this year, once on the bike and the other in the car and am looking forwards to the next bike rally a week on Friday, so hoping that the weather will improve, and if it doesn't what does it matter, it will still be a fantastic weekend, with lots of good mates and some cool bands on.
Go on girls give it a try - you may actually find you enjoy it :) | |
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Posted: 6/18/2008 1:36:37 PM | I go camping because it is attached to my love of motorbike rallies and music festivals, I have my own kit, and I get it all packed nicely on the back of my motorbike and off I go to a field somewhere, pitch up and then join the others in the marquee for a drink or three, see a few bands, socialise and have a grand weekend  | |
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Posted: 6/18/2008 1:59:33 PM | | I went camping for the first time a few weeks ago and loved it. Saying that, I'm planning on buying a caravan next year once I've found a big enough car to tow it cos my little Megane doesn't cut the muster! | |
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Posted: 6/19/2008 11:00:26 PM | I love camping! My tent is almost big enough for me to stand up in (I'm 6'1"), I have a twin burner stove with grill that means I can cook a mean curry and naan bread while I'm away, and plenty of chairs to chill out in. I find that you always end up making friends at campsites, certainly a much more friendly, relaxed atmosphere than hotels. I'll be off to the Lake District (possibly, maybe North Wales) in about 10 days with nothing but a light 1 person tent, a couple of changes of clothes, loads of flapjacks and my bike! 2 or 3 nights in the countryside, with 3 or 4 days of riding through some of the most amazing scenery in the world! How could I not fail to relax and just be happy with my lot doing that?  | |
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Posted: 6/20/2008 2:41:57 AM | I did the "roughing it" camping when I was a Scout in me youth, both in a little 2 man ridge tent and Patrol camping too. I enjoyed it and the skills I learned are good to know even if they have limited use.
Now I have a tent I can stand up in to put my kegs on, and use sites with showers and bogs, a bucket still comes in for the en-suite tho.
Eurocamp/Haven/Keycamp type hols are great for a cheap foreign holiday. The weather is usually good enough to just use the tent as a bedroom, and they are beds. The facilities are good with seperate washing/laundering and washing up sinks as well as showers and loos. Folk with 3 or 4 kids were common, you only pay for the tent where in a hotel they would need two rooms for 6 folk. Happy times. | |
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