In mid-June and late July, I went camping just off the edge of Dartmoor. It was supposed to be two weekends in June but the campsite was booked out and so I had to change my dates (and got a free night thrown in). I’d like to talk about the campsite but I have such… More Oaktree Lane Dartmoor campsite review | Camping on Dartmoor July 2021
I was camping the other day and realised that someone needs to speak up about fire safety while camping. Guess it’d better be me. My qualifications for this subject are that I’m a Guide leader of fourteen years’ standing, I was the fire marshall at my last job (and I wrote our fire procedures manual… More Fire safety while camping
In this series, I’ve covered how to choose and buy a tent, how to look after it, what kit to take, how and what to cook and quite a few of the basics of camping. It took until a Twitter exchange this morning (by which I mean last Monday because pre-written and scheduled post!) for… More Why go camping?
As I may have mentioned in my last post, I went camping in the heatwave and made some errors in judgement. But those errors were caused, in part, by the lack of any information whatsoever about how to camp in hot weather. People talk a lot about how to camp in the cold – I’ve… More How to camp in hot weather
New kit haul, she says. Haul. I bought a couple of new bits of camp kit in June and then I bought a couple more new bits in July. You might say some of this is basic stuff that I should have already had years ago but until the last two years or so, my camping… More Camp kit haul
Last week I went back to Brownsea Island for another two nights camping in a tree tent. I learned some lessons from the first time round and I want to tell you about five things I did differently the second time. 1) I didn’t take a sleeping bag You have to carry everything a mile… More Tree camping: 5 things I did differently | Tree Camping July 2021
It occurred to me this week that although I travel and camp and hike and generally adventure solo, I don’t talk about it much, not about the actually solo aspect of it. It occurred to me because Cat Higgy was asking for advice on Twitter, about the South West Coast Path and about hiking and… More How to camp and hike solo
I’ve covered quite a lot of the basics of camping – how to buy a tent, pitch it, repair it and how to cook while you’re camping but I’ve never done a camping packing list. Well, here it is, my list of camping essentials, broken down into categories. “Camping essentials” will vary from person to… More Camping for Beginners: Camping essentials
No matter how far the twenty-first century marches on, no matter what it throws at us, camping on an uninhabited island will always feel like something out of a 1920s children’s adventure story. My weekend camping on Brownsea Island was full-on Swallows and Amazons, minus the cooking fire (Brownsea is too much of a fire… More A peaceful weekend on Brownsea Island | Tree Camping June 2021
We have actual travel content today! I went on my first holiday of 2021! It was a two night camping trip, except it was slightly better than camping because I was in a tree tent! Brownsea adventure camping has finally, after 100+ years, opened to the general public. I’ve camped with my Guides before and… More Brownsea adventure camping review | Tree Camping June 2021