Jun 2022
1:27pm, 23 Jun 2022
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
All our family holidays when I was young were camping - hanging on to a tent pole whilst dad tried to get it down before it went over the cliff at Durness during an August storm was a particular low point. Camping at Durness... equal parts brave and foolhardy!
We also did most childhood holidays in a tent. Machrihanish was the most memorable weather fail.
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Jun 2022
1:35pm, 23 Jun 2022
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Gobi
I did Northern Scotland in a 2CV and camping on the hillside near Tongue.
I remember it being memorable for the entire level of miserable it was every day !
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Jun 2022
1:55pm, 23 Jun 2022
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GimmeMedals
All our childhood holidays were spent camping. My dad used to follow the sun - so each evening, he sat in the car with engine running to make the light work so he could look at a map whilst listening to the weather forecast. He would announce that we were going to move on every now and then. All hands on deck to dismantle the big frame tent, pack it away then pitch it again at the next site. This would be repeated a few times each holiday.
He always picked a good pitch to camp on, so even though we had many wet holidays (despite trying to avoid the rain) we never got flooded and the tent never blew away, unlike those around us.
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Jun 2022
3:08pm, 23 Jun 2022
11,332 posts
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Alice the Camel
I have slightly different memories GM... I remember Dad sitting up through the night holding on to tent poles... Also I remember getting personally flooded when we pitched on a slight slope and a younger sibling, sleeping upslope from me, peed herself through the night and it all ran down into my sleeping bag....
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Jun 2022
3:12pm, 23 Jun 2022
5,698 posts
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Fenland Flier
😂😂
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Jun 2022
3:12pm, 23 Jun 2022
55,277 posts
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LindsD
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Jun 2022
3:21pm, 23 Jun 2022
22,869 posts
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Bazoaxe
This thread just took an interesting turn
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Jun 2022
3:24pm, 23 Jun 2022
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Ness
It did!
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Jun 2022
3:33pm, 23 Jun 2022
11,186 posts
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Meeps
Not sure I fancy camping now!
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Jun 2022
3:36pm, 23 Jun 2022
29,072 posts
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Nicholls595
Camping can be very relaxing...
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