I want to go camping. Where should I go?

[Merging Cultures]

Botswana has some cracking campsites.

[Bellend Sebastian]

13 hours ago, Buce said:

 

Blimey, is that still there? That dredges up some good memories.

 

There's a cracking pub there, iirc.

Apparently it is. Just make sure you take everything you need, it's a long drive to the nearest Tesco Express 

[Buce]

3 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Apparently it is. Just make sure you take everything you need, it's a long drive to the nearest Tesco Express 

You used to be able to buy eggs and stuff from the farm up the road (owned by Josh Naylor, legendary fell runner), and the field next to the campsite has copious amounts of (magic) mushrooms in the Autumn. A day on the fells, a night on the shrooms. Bliss.

[Bellend Sebastian]

12 minutes ago, Buce said:

You used to be able to buy eggs and stuff from the farm up the road (owned by Josh Naylor, legendary fell runner), and the field next to the campsite has copious amounts of (magic) mushrooms in the Autumn. A day on the fells, a night on the shrooms. Bliss.

I think the National Trust office offers a few essentials too, so hopefully there's no need to starve.

 

It's years since I've been, and you're really making me want to go back, but small children make these jaunts more logistically challenging than they were.

 

Is it OK to give under 5's magic mushrooms? I mean, what could possibly go wrong

 

 

[Finnegan]

I love that Oswin says he's not very outdoorsy so you recommend him one of the most remote hamlets in the country.

 

 

[Buce]

5 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I think the National Trust office offers a few essentials too, so hopefully there's no need to starve.

 

It's years since I've been, and you're really making me want to go back, but small children make these jaunts more logistically challenging than they were.

 

Is it OK to give under 5's magic mushrooms? I mean, what could possibly go wrong

 

 

Yeah, I'm going back about thirty years or so when I was still young and single.

 

I wouldn't encourage anyone to take drugs, it has to come from within (I know you're joking).

 

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

I love that Oswin says he's not very outdoorsy so you recommend him one of the most remote hamlets in the country.

 

 

Describing it as a hamlet makes it sound more built up than it is.

 

Character building.  Sink or swim.  In for a penny, in for a pound etc. It's either outdoors or it isn't, and if it's the former, you might as well go somewhere good.  You could go somewhere in Derbyshire or wherever, expend almost as much effort and it be far less special.

 

In fairness, I think it was either my first or second time camping and I loved it

[rico]

If you don't want to go too far try Rutland Water

[Thracian]

Switzerland. 

[Parafox]

 

My new mental image of Ozwin

 

[Finnegan]

 

Bit harsh.

[MC Prussian]

8 hours ago, Thracian said:

Switzerland. 

Have you ever been to Switzerland in the past 30 to 40 years?

 

Things have changed over here, you know - including the population numbers (an increase from six to eight million people). Try finding a secluded spot now.

[Smudge]

When I was young, about 15, I went camping with my cousin who was an Eagle Scout, so he'd done few hundred times. I, on the other hand, had never been in a tent before, it turned out to be the most miserable night of my life. Cold, uncomfortable and if neither one of those discomforts didn't keep me awake the bloody flapping tent material from wind and rain did. The following morning I went home. 

 

So **** the camping stay at the Wasdale Head Inn. Comfy bed, bathroom and a pub for the evenings. Lovely jubbly!!