Camping

Ubbquittious

I love a bit of camping. Nothing like trying to shove through a pole that keeps getting caught in the fabric :pac:

I find most people who dislike it have a tale to tell about that one time they decide to try it when it was lashing down from the heavens and they bought the cheapest tent going and the whole thing was a complete and utter disaster for all involved.

Fart

Eugh... Tayto?

mad muffin

No. My motto is. I don't go on holidays to stay in a place shïttier than my own place.

SEPT 23 1989

Nothing better than lying in a sleeping bag in a non leaking tent listening to the tapping of the rain

Grandeeod

I love camping. Feckin brill. These days it great with pop up tents. Poles are so yesterday. My first camping experience was back in the 80s with poles and rain. Howth Head. The tent leaked and then collapsed. Home time. Second experience was yet another pole tent up in Glenmalure Wicklow. It snowed the first night and we didn't sweep it off. Went up Lug the next day and it snowed again. Came back to a collapsed tent. Home time and it was a pretty difficult trip with no car.

Camped out near Windsor, London in the early noughties. Stayed in a reletives tent. All posh and ****. Slept like a baby, but had a big slab of beer before hand.:D

Victor

Psychlops

I don't go camping, its frowned upon in Call Of Duty

One_Of_Shanks

Camping is lovely every now and then. Like someone else said, sound of the rain tipping on the tent at night is lovely.
It's a bit of craic overall, something very enjoyable about it.

It's this "glamping" trend thing that screwed it all up. Either go camping and rough it or go stay in a hotel FFS.

Pawwed Rig

mad muffin wrote: »

No. My motto is. I don't go on holidays to stay in a place shïttier than my own place.

Is a tent worse or better than your place?

osarusan

Camping is great fun, love doing it with my kids. My wife also loves having the house to herself for a night or two.

Only problem is that it's generally a crap night's sleep.

freshpopcorn

osarusan wrote: »

Camping is great fun, love doing it with my kids. My wife also loves having the house to herself for a night or two.

Only problem is that it's generally a crap night's sleep.

What does she get up to in an empty house?

mad muffin

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Is a tent worse or better than your place?

Worse of course!





























I wish… fml

somefeen

I like camping but I've given up on tents.

A good bivvy bag is the job. Just slide into it wherever you happen to be when you get tired. Unless where you are turns out be a footpath and your awoken by people stepping over you. That was a bit awkward

osarusan

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What does she get up to in an empty house?

Invites friends over and stays up eating, drinking, and talking shyte.

Lorelli!

I like camping. I think the best one was when my oh and I camped in Kilkenny, years ago! We were going to see Bob Dylan and we camped on a farm. The place was packed and all the people camping there were also going to the concert so it was good fun.

For some reason I think the food always tastes nicer when youre camping too!

I first fell in love with camping when my long-suffering mother made a huge tent for me and my siblings out of fertilizer bags and broom-handles.

The thing was literally a death trap. A stiff breeze might have brought the lot down and suffocated us, but for the long hot summer of 1995, I lived in that tent in our yard. I try go camping at least once a year, usually to the same campsite.

There's a fantastic campsite in Killarney if any of ye are ever going camping down there, called Fleming's White Bridge, on the Ballycasheen Road. It has toilets and showers, and is a nice stroll away from the town. Pure bliss.

greencap

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Nothing better than lying in a sleeping bag in a non leaking tent listening to the tapping of the rain

could be rain.

could be a rapists bell end.

tap tap tap.

One_Of_Shanks

greencap wrote: »

could be rain.

could be a rapists bell end.

tap tap tap.

nah was definitely rain. Unless the wee diagram on RTE forecast was miles off.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Camping's deadly (in an expensive tent).

The Backwards Man

Camping is for people that never had to spend to sixteen hours a day footing turf or five days a week sleeping in a salmon lorry.

Or two months in a shed in the middle of nowhere walling spuds with nothing but a broken Glen Campbell cassette tape.

LordSutch

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Camping .

In a tent, yes I love it ......

I say in a 'tent' because I've lost count of the amount of people who camp in a caravan or mobile home!
(This is not real camping in my book)

You must have a tent to camp, or at least be under the stars in a sleeping bag.

Capt'n Midnight

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Nothing better than lying in a sleeping bag in a non leaking tent listening to the tapping of the rain

Or waking up and wondering why the floor is undulating. And being thankful that the tent is waterproof in a few inches of water that wasn't there last night.

An adventure isn't fun while it's happening.

Surreptitious

I like it. I've camped all over the country. Mostly it was positive and it's nice to be near a beach and have a BBQ. Once me and my ex borrowed some dodgy tent and ended up the Whest in a storm totally soaked and lying in about a foot of water. Basically ran to the nearest hostel before we ended up catching something. Been camping in the UK too where the facilities were a bit better.

Surreptitious

Surreptitious wrote: »

Been camping in the UK too where the facilities were a bit better.

Yeah, I don't know whether it's climate or visitor numbers, but we don't seem to embrace camping as a holiday pursuit in the same way that other Europeans and North Americans do.

It isn't like we don't have the landscape for it, and Irish farmers don't tend to be particularly averse to letting campers and hikers onto their lands, like in the U.K. Strange one.

Surreptitious

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yeah, I don't know whether it's climate or visitor numbers, but we don't seem to embrace camping as a holiday pursuit in the same way that other Europeans and North Americans do.

It isn't like we don't have the landscape for it, and Irish farmers don't tend to be particularly averse to letting campers and hikers onto their lands, like in the U.K. Strange one.

All I can think of is the unpredictable weather but in saying that, when it's sunny it's lovely to lie out on the sand knowing you can throw yourself into your tent a few feet away and listen to the sound of the waves. We are pretty backward compared to the UK in nearly every way anyway.

Aglomerado

Some friends and I camped in a ruined monastery in Co. Cork about 7 years ago. We had great craic, cooked breakfast in the chancel the next morning. rubbish sleep though and no ghosts despite a graveyard next door.

Parson's green in Co. Tipp is a nice place to go camping if you have children, lovely petting zoo and indoor play area.

Shenshen

No. Just no.
I've done more than my fair share of it, starting with family camping holidays in Yugoslawia (yes, I am that old) from when I was 9 to when I was 14, to camping with friends in the woods and countryside near home, to camping in my aunt's garden in Vienna. Would have averaged about 2 -3 times a year for a while.

It's fun when you're a child, but I started hating it as a teenager. It's uncomfortable, somehow almost always way too warm, I always feel smelly and itchy after 2 days of no shower, and even little things like making a cup of tea require way too much effort.
Not doing it any more, thank you very much. I've got enough money for a decent hotel, or I'm just staying home.

Malari

No way. I've done it twice. For one night both times, the weather was great, actually had a fun night both times, but I'm not young or poor anymore, I don't have to put up with that kind of unnecessary discomfort.

silverharp

I enjoy it, last few years have gone camping with my son and combined it with canoeing or sailing so half the fun is trying to find a good spot for the night. Otherwise have gone alone in Wicklow for a night at a time sometimes lower in a forest or higher up like above Glendalough. I enjoy the fact that the level of comfort depends on being organised so half the fun is tweaking the kit before hand or trying to find a better spot than the last time.

topper75

Aglomerado wrote: »

rubbish sleep though and no ghosts despite a graveyard next door.

Hard to know though ... is that camping's fault, or is it just the brutal finality of death?

Aglomerado

topper75 wrote: »

Hard to know though ... is that camping's fault, or is it just the brutal finality of death?

It could just have been the bags of cans :D:D

BeardySi

If you're uncomfortable you're doing it wrong!

Personally hammock camping is my favourite - no need to worry about hard ground, stones or sticks - just need a couple of well spaced trees. Best night's sleep I've ever had!

Malari

BeardySi wrote: »

If you're uncomfortable you're doing it wrong!

Personally hammock camping is my favourite - no need to worry about hard ground, stones or sticks - just need a couple of well spaced trees. Best night's sleep I've ever had!

The discomfort aspect is more than just an uneven, hard ground to sleep on.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

Going camping this weekend in fact.

Up to a mountain in Wicklow where a friend has his farm, big aul fire, baga cans and some great company. Job's oxo.

josip

Shenshen wrote: »

No. Just no.
I've done more than my fair share of it, starting with family camping holidays in Yugoslawia (yes, I am that old) from when I was 9 to when I was 14,...

Dalmatia or were you more adventurous and went into the hinterland?

Shenshen wrote: »

It's uncomfortable, somehow almost always way too warm,

This.
Sometimes in France/Italy we end up with an exposed pitch.
Once the sun hits it in the morning at 7am you've got about 10 minutes to escape before it's a f**king oven.

Pawwed Rig

I went camping with my little boy in the back garden last week and he loved it. We're going to try a few spots over the summer. I have camped all of my adult life and would much prefer it than a hotel.
I remember once camping in Clare in December:eek:
If you are prepared there should be no discomfort.

Boom_Bap

I've in the last few years caught the camping bug. Got new badas$ tent a few weeks ago that I'm raring to try out.
Got some new sleeping bags as well so going to sleep like a prince.

Planning a weekend in July and a week or 2 in August.

It's wonderful to disconnect for a while and live in the wild.

LadyMacBeth_

I've never been camping, I'd like to give it a try sometime, maybe go to electric picnic or so. The missus tells me I'm too much of a diva for it.

Shenshen

josip wrote: »

Dalmatia or were you more adventurous and went into the hinterland?

No, on the Croatian coast, not far from Pula. Beach holiday really, but with 3 kids it was the cheapest options my parents could find.

This.
Sometimes in France/Italy we end up with an exposed pitch.
Once the sun hits it in the morning at 7am you've got about 10 minutes to escape before it's a f**king oven.

And tents have this way of trapping hot, stale air... We always would camp in the shade anyway, but I still don't remember ever finding it anything but too hot.

BeardySi

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I've never been camping, I'd like to give it a try sometime, maybe go to electric picnic or so. The missus tells me I'm too much of a diva for it.

Electric Picnic is to camping is what the M50 at rush hour is to driving....

Malari

BeardySi wrote: »

Electric Picnic is to camping is what the M50 at rush hour is to driving....

And camping is to a hotel is what a Tesco own brand pot noodle is to a good meal.

TPD

Was camping on the beach on Saturday night - few cans, few smokes, grand craic. The walk back to the boat the next day was less craic, but wouldn't put me off! Would go again today. Actually...

LadyMacBeth_

BeardySi wrote: »

Electric Picnic is to camping is what the M50 at rush hour is to driving....

But surely various substances/music will distract me from the portaloo situation.

Pawwed Rig

Shenshen wrote: »

And tents have this way of trapping hot, stale air...

Not if you have a good tent

josip

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

But surely various substances/music will distract me from the portaloo situation.

Don't worry about the portaloo.
These are what you need if you're going camping properly.
Day Time
Night Time
Poo Time

LadyMacBeth_

josip wrote: »

Don't worry about the portaloo.
These are what you need if you're going camping properly.
Day Time
Night Time
Poo Time

Do I not need a man part for the second one?

josip

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Do I not need a man part for the second one?

Nope, just a good aim

Boom_Bap

You could use the turd third one for them all :pac:

Madagascan

Place I go to in Cushendall is so peaceful.
Just sit looking out to sea with the town 5 minutes walk away.
Sitting with your wee radio trying to get a signal!

Glenster

Society- Go sleep outside in the rain and insects like a f*cking caveman for the craic

Me- No thanks, I'll just live my normal modern life thank you.

Society- You're missing out.

Glenster

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Not if you have a good tent

A tent is a tent mate, I don't care what kind of carbon fibre mithril its made out of, when the sun's on it, it'll get hot.