Camping

What do you think of camping?

I find there tends to be two camps:)

Either I hate it with a passion and have been traumatised by scout camping trips and or a washed out rainy weekend camping, its misery.

or

I love it and loved camping with the scouts and or love camping under the stars and have had great times in a tent/ teenager adventures// traveling all over Europe in a tent.

My youngest and her boyfriend are going camping to the lake district in the uk this weekend I am so jealous.

Sir Arthur Daley

Its a poor mans hostel.

jimgoose

I did a bit of tenting way back as a nipper. I find I don't much care for it these days. :pac:

geeksauce

Hate it, what's the point in it, go somewhere assemble your own accommodation sit outside it with nothing to do and then try to go asleep on a very uncomfortable bed for the night. Get up the next morning and feel like crap after the bad nights sleep and lack of a shower and just wait around until it's time to go home.

Don't see the appeal.

PizzamanIRL

I hate campers hiding in corners aiming down sight. Little bastards.

Lia_lia

It's okay.

jimgoose

geeksauce wrote: »

Hate it, what's the point in it, go somewhere assemble your own accommodation sit outside it with nothing to do and then try to go asleep on a very uncomfortable bed for the night. Get up the next morning and feel like crap after the bad nights sleep and lack of a shower and just wait around until it's time to go home.

Don't see the appeal.

Well in fairness now you would be filling in the time with fun stuff outside of the period spent actually in the tent asleep. For example, my own experience of it is nearly all motorcycle rallies.

pablo128

Me and the lads always go up the mountains for an annual camping trip.(or two). No-one to whinge as you stumble around a forest buckled drunk at 3am, the women won't go as there's no electricity, and don't mind us going as there's no women up there to tempt us. Except Baaa-bara of course!:pac:

Firs off campsite have showers and loos and the lake district is very spectacular so there would be lots to do and I like English country pubs it would be a brilliant weekend. I concede the weather would be a factor in how much it is enjoyable.

Only ever slept in a tent went I've gone to a rally. Not unknown to end up in the wrong tent or find someone in yours.

Good craic!

mad muffin

My number one rule for going on holiday is:

Never stay anywhere that is worse than your own house. So in that respects, yeah, I love camping.



















































no, no I don't. I hate it. :pac:

--LOS--

I love it. We always did camping holidays growing up, either in Ireland or abroad a few times. We wouldn't have been able to afford to go abroad otherwise and it's an amazing holiday, some of the campsites have incredible facilities, supermarket, bars, restaurants, pools, all kinds of stuff for kids on site. Plus you're outdoors and can cook outdoors, and if you have good equipment and know how to set up properly, comfort shouldnt be a problem and you should have no problems dealing with short spells of bad weather. Only time I've gone camping in recent years is at festivals though.

SEPT 23 1989

nothing beats lying in a water tight tent when its lashing down outside

Tiddlypeeps

Used to go a lot with the family as a kid. My folks weren't very well off so we could never afford to go abroad or do anything fancy. I hated it and since becoming an adult I've never had the slightest desire to go again, don't think I ever will either.

neamhspleachi

Do it most weekends of the year at motorcycle rallies, great craic, as long as you have the right gear

Buzz Killington the third

mariaalice wrote: »

My youngest and her boyfriend are going camping to the lake district in the uk this weekend I am so jealous.

Ah, to be young... Nothing better than a weekend away from the folks to ride in the forest.

Philo Beddoe

mariaalice wrote: »

What do you think of camping?

I hate it. It's a deliberate decision to deprive oneself of comfort and conveniences, which makes no sense to me.

neamhspleachi

^^^:pac::pac::pac:

SEPT 23 1989

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

nothing beats lying in a water tight tent when its lashing down outside

I know someone who consider that a sort of Zen like meditation.

Buzz Killington the third

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Ah, to be young... Nothing better than a weekend away from the folks to ride in the forest.

I hate to disillusion you but the vast majority of parent are well aware of and are happy that their children are having sex with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Its normal for people in relationships to have sex. Strangely enough parents tend to want their children to be happy, normal, contented individuals.

Teenagers tend to have the weirdest ideas about their parents.

Buzz Killington the third

mariaalice wrote: »

I hate to disillusion you but the vast majority of parent are well aware of and are happy that their children are having sex with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Its normal for people in relationships to have sex. Strangely enough parents tend to want their children to be happy, normal, contented individuals.

Teenagers tend to have the weirdest ideas about their parents.

Only I haven't been a teenager for long time...

BeerWolf

I hate campers... ****ers always get me around corners, always that lucky headshot too! >:(

Davarus Walrus

I think most people's experiences of camping normally involve a music festival, 15 cans of warm lager and a heap of yokes.

Awkward Badger

I think I'd like camping in a secluded spot on my own or with a could others who just want to do it for the camping/nature aspect.

But I wouldn't be particularly interested doing it as a group drinking session or parking a camper van into a slot amid several hundred others and hanging around in what seems to me a makeshift estate.

Karl Stein

I enjoy it if it's only one or two nights. Pop up tents and self inflating sleeping mats take the pain out of setting up camp. A few cold beers and a nice fire under the stars on a warm summer's night? Pure bliss.

suicide_circus

I can see the appeal but on the rare occasion I do get to go on holiday I want a comfortable break with zero effort. The only tent I want to pitch on holiday is the one I wake up with in a comfy bed.

BrensBenz

Oh, THAT camping! Thought you should have posted to the Gay/Lesbian/Trans forum.

Does cruising on Lough Erne for a week, in a six-berth cruiser, with a gas cylinder powering all amenities and a different jetty every night count? Try it. It's brilliant.

Once camped in a six-person tent in Dunmore East during a week-long sailing regatta. We were admonished one night at 3:00AM by a member of the British team, wearing a dressing gown and slippers, for being too noisy. After wagging his finger at us, he stomped back to his tent. Before settling down to sleep, we (singers and tone deaf) felt it our duty to sing, with guitar and harmonica accompaniment, "Oh Silent Night", both in English and, thanks to the young German ladies who dropped in to discuss (ahem) world affairs with us, in the original German.
When the Dutch tent joined in, we started again, from the top.
At this point, the British team asked us to get on with it, so we politely increased the tempo, which only encouraged the Swiss team to yodel the second part harmony line. The yodelling carried quite well across the still, calm campsite and into the neighbouring dwellings.
Then, not to be outdone, the Italians burst into song and much arm-waving, which woke, scared and scattered the seabirds.
Well, you know how some dogs like to howl? I'm not sure if it was the Swiss yodelling or the Italian operatics that set him off but, for ever after, we remember that spaniel as Caruso. His solo spot stole the show.

Now, yiz won't get that in a hotel!

GLaDOS

geeksauce wrote: »

Hate it, what's the point in it, go somewhere assemble your own accommodation sit outside it with nothing to do and then try to go asleep on a very uncomfortable bed for the night. Get up the next morning and feel like crap after the bad nights sleep and lack of a shower and just wait around until it's time to go home.

Don't see the appeal.

Some of the best nights sleeps I've had were camping A wamrm sleeping bag can be incredibly cosy.

Tar.Aldarion

I'd love to go but never really have ever...unless our front garden counts
Or at a party for a night.

forgotten password

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Its a poor mans hostel.

its a poor poor man's hotel

dd972

>>> LGBT Forum please.

Tar.Aldarion

dd972 wrote: »

>>> LGBT Forum please.

Instructions unclear, dick caught in ceiling fan.

Davarus Walrus

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I think most people's experiences of camping normally involve a music festival, 15 cans of warm lager and a heap of yokes.

That not camping its a form of torcher.

Pumpkinseeds

We stayed in a Scout tent for a few days in Fanore when I was a child before staying in a mobile home. The camping thing is awful. I come from a background of Scouting/Guiding uncles and aunt, never inherited the bug enthusiasm for it. I hear people talking about glamping but it's still just a tent. Give me a 5* hotel anyday, no seriously, somebody please give me a holiday in a 5* hotel, I could really use a holiday:D

Toots

The only camping I've ever done was at Oxegen in 2004. Jesus christ it was like some sort of horrible torture camp. Trudging back to the tent after the acts were finished, ground all soggy but it hadn't rained, well at least from the clouds. It had rained piss, though. Running the risk of getting gonorrhea from the porta-pottys. I didn't poop for 3 days. Eejits with guitars thinking they were Christy Moore, howling drunkenly during the night. Awful. Just awful.

I'd actually be fairly open to doing some proper camping. Anyone I know who's done it has had good things to say about it.

toastedpickles

Like toots above the only camping I done was at oxegen in 09, some scumbag decided to lock me in my tent and set fire to it :mad: some guy cut me out with a tent peg, owe him big time whoever he was,

So no camping isn't for me

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

geeksauce wrote: »

Hate it, what's the point in it, go somewhere assemble your own accommodation sit outside it with nothing to do and then try to go asleep on a very uncomfortable bed for the night. Get up the next morning and feel like crap after the bad nights sleep and lack of a shower and just wait around until it's time to go home.

Don't see the appeal.

That's a very narrow minded view of camping.

It's certainly a very cheap way of seeing the world. It can be very comfortable with the correct gear, you can even get blow up mattresses, imagine that.

RustyNut

Just back from a weekend of climbing and caving on Owey island that wouldn't be possible without camping, no hotels, bars, electricty or running water there. Paradise.

the_syco

Yeah, I like camping. Have woken up refreshed, only to be met with the half dead zombies who complain about their lack of sleep in their tent that they boasted only cost them a fiver.

Find people who, although they hate camping, camp as it's the cheapest option, cheap out on the tent, don't buy a ground mat, and wonder why they got so little sleep :pac:

RustyNut

Toots* wrote: »

The only camping I've ever done was at Oxegen in 2004. Jesus christ it was like some sort of horrible torture camp. Trudging back to the tent after the acts were finished, ground all soggy but it hadn't rained, well at least from the clouds. It had rained piss, though. Running the risk of getting gonorrhea from the porta-pottys. I didn't poop for 3 days. Eejits with guitars thinking they were Christy Moore, howling drunkenly during the night. Awful. Just awful.

I'd actually be fairly open to doing some proper camping. Anyone I know who's done it has had good things to say about it.

Staying in a tent at Oxegen is festivilling, a very worthwhile experience but definitely not to be mistaken with camping.

pale blue dot cotton

Great craic. Try to go 2/3/4 times a summer depending on weather and getting a gang together. Cheap weekend away, loads of cans, loads of laughs and great memories to look back on as opposed to just another night in the usual bars.

Tail Docker

It's intentse.

suicide_circus

toastedpickles wrote: »

Like toots above the only camping I done was at oxegen in 09, some scumbag decided to lock me in my tent and set fire to it :mad: some guy cut me out with a tent peg, owe him big time whoever he was,

So no camping isn't for me

That was atented murder.

Jesus Wept

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

nothing beats lying in a water tight tent when its lashing down outside

What sort of tend would you recommend?
I was looking at them recently and found this a bit contradictory... and ridiculous.

'Hydrostatic head 1200mm - the higher the figure, the more waterproof the tent'

Kiwi in IE

Not sure if it qualifies as 'proper' camping, but I've just returned from a weeks holiday at a Eurocamp in Paris. We stayed in a mobile home, not a tent and we had a fantastic time. I found it much better than staying in a hotel with a little kid. In a hotel with children either you have to go to bed when they do, or they stay up with you and are cranky and whingy the next day. In a mobile home they can be put to bed in their own room with the door shut while mummy and daddy drink wine on the deck. We also stayed a night at a Disneyland hotel while we were away and I much preferred the mobile home at the campsite!

sheesh

I like camping the whole getting back to basics makes a pleasant change.
planning to do some wild camping in kerry over the summer

toastedpickles

suicide_circus wrote: »

That was atented murder.

You sir have made, single handedly the worst joke ever......

You're hired

BeardySi

Festivals are most definitely not camping! They're an endurance test at best. Been there, done that, had my head wrecked...

Can't beat a nice night out up in the mountains with a fire, a couple of friends and maybe a wee drop of whiskey... Of late I don't even bother bringing the tent. A tarp and a nice warm (waterproof) sleeping bag do the job nicely...

i heart chewy louie wrote:

What sort of tend would you recommend? I was looking at them recently and found this a bit contradictory... and ridiculous.


'Hydrostatic head 1200mm - the higher the figure, the more waterproof the tent'

Without going into long winded explanations, it's the amount of water it can keep out - higher number = better at withstanding rain... It's not like a waterproof watch and rated to a depth...

As for recommending a tent, that'd depend on what you want it for....


Edit: no, the depth thing makes no sense... I've really got no idea why you're finding the concept difficult - higher number = better...

pablo128

A blow up bed is dirt cheap in Argos by the way. A single one is around a tenner I think.

Seaneh

I've stayed in 5 star hotels all over Europe, North Africa and the Americas and I've camped wild in the same areas and I love both for different reasons.

Nothing beats getting on your bike for a few days with a few friends and cycling to a different spot each night, making camp, relaxing under the stars, packing up and doing it again tomorrow or heading up the lake for the weekend and camping on an Island.

Seaneh

pablo128 wrote: »

A blow up bed is dirt cheap in Argos by the way. A single one is around a tenner I think.

Or if you're worried about weight you can get a Thermarest Trail Lite inflatable mat for about €45 if you shop around. I slept on one every night for about 5 weeks in the South America and it was grand.