Types of Camping

Types of Camping: Here are several different Types of Camping which are practiced all over the world. Camping these days, can range from very simplified to very complex. Read the various ways to go camping, then you can decide which type of camping you would be best suited for or maybe try a new way of camping!

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Your Guide to Family Caravanning UK

Our tips on the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of taking a family trip in a caravan There’s nothing quite like a family holiday. The tears, the inevitable forgotten essentials, the arguments over who sits where in the car, the damp days spent watching the rain, chips and feeding the seagulls at the beach, hours and hours lost spending boardgames and cardgames which you never before found remotely int

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How to Keep your Tent Dry

Does your tent leak? IT SHOULDN'T! I was just reading on some tent manufacturers Facebook pages of customer’s constant complaints about getting water inside their tents. This seems to be a common happening to car campers. Let’s see if we can keep everyone dry. Keeping Your Tent Dry: How a Tent is Made If you have ever sewn, and if you haven’t listen close, you know that you start with a p

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Camper Species – Types of Camping

Camping - the exploration of the unknown, the rediscovering of nature…the burning of food. Yes, camping is an experience that truly rejuvenates the soul. As a Canadian who lives at the feet of the Rocky Mountains, camping is an integral part of my life. There are many provincial and national parks near my home, and each time I visit them, I notice that there are three distinct types of campers.

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Secure Your Tent: Let Water Take the Strain

Campsite selections chosen from the glossy pages of a magazine do not necessarily paint the full glamorous picture of the adventure you are about to embark on, or the nightmare. And something as "trivial" as the texture of the earth upon which we perch our "mobile" home can make or break the relationship between canvas and human as swiftly as it takes to say "It's too hard." Armed and Ready We a

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Love-Hate Relationship With Camping

I have a love-hate relationship with camping. There are so many aspects which I dislike: the constant closeness that you have with members of your family, the mile long walks to the toilet in the middle of the night, the fact that you wake up cold no matter how snug you were when you drifted off to sleep, the unwavering ability to hear everything that is going on in the campsite at every time of t

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What to Look for in Caravan Insurance

Given the fact that economic depression and social unrest continues to impact on countries across the globe, it is little wonder that a growing number of British holiday makers are now looking to travel, come rain or shine, within the boundaries of the UK. With popular tourist resorts such as Egypt, Greece and Cyprus particularly badly hit, the concepts of camping and summer caravan holidays h

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Backpacking Through New Zealand

In my opinion New Zealand is one of the best countries in the world. New Zealand offers everything you could possibly want when traveling. It is the home of breathtaking landscapes such as glaciers, rain forests, white sand beaches, mountains, rolling valleys, volcanoes, geysers and so much more! New Zealand - New Start I was 20yrs old when I left home (Vancouver, Canada). I had just finished m

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Backpacking Tips: You’re not too Old to Backpack

After my children grew up and left home, I decided to walk the Cumbria Way -  a beautiful 70 mile trail across the mountains and valleys of the Lake District of England.  I had pre-booked accommodation for each night so my itinerary was fixed.  How I envied the freedom of the backpackers I met, but could a sixty-year-old woman carry enough gear for a solo camping trip? Don't just think it, do i

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