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I am breaking my Lenten mn fast cos Dh is starting to talk about caravans . We are selling our beloved campervan as needs must. I want to buy a palamos 6 tent and Dh wants the afore mentioned pagent atrocity. Lucycat how is the palamos 6? Slubber tell me that going back to a tent isn't horrific.

Thanks

Ps tis I of the cadac

Omg That palamos tent is lush!
lucycat ... Is that what you traded your outwell in for? Is she as lovely as she looks?

It is isn't it trouty?

Ooh yes she's fab much easier to put up although the front ridge pole is a little tight at first. For continental camping especially she's divine. Takes up half the space in the car to the point where we didn't take the trailer to France last year. She smells of cotton, stayed beautiful & cool in the hot sun, was completely waterproof in the thunderstorm triggered by the 35c temps & we attached a Decathlon tarp to the front using Clingons to create extra shade.
In terms of value for money I can't fault her. Any further questions please ask!

The delivery from Obelink's UK delivery arm was fantastic. It took two days although he instructions in Dutch were very funny. Fortunately I used this review thread on ukcamping which was a real help and the the search engine on said ukcamping site for more info.
OK so she isn't a De Waard but in terms of weight and cost she is fanatstic.
The bedroom compartments ang inside but we left ours out so dh and I had more space and jus zipped the dd's into theirs.
There is a piched picture of one on this page second down on the right.

Lush is the word

ooh that is a very nice tent and good to see you can open it right up and not obliged to have the bedroom bits in if you choose.
We have a de waard or two but that does look an excellent tent for the price. I think they are a much more usable space than a bell tent personally

Thanks Lucy, I was worried about it being enormous in the car. Good to hear it is fabulous.

How much of a pain are th guy ropes?
Just need to flog the camper now

When she arrived from the Netherlands all the guy ropes were separate so on our practice pitch we just tied them all on - no problem and because the front guys come off, (they loop over the front poles) there are actually less long guy ropes to deal with on site when striking the tent
I lay the groundsheet out where you want to pitch the tent- bearing in mind that the awning will extend by another metre or so. Then zip the canvas on, put the middle pole in, raise the canvas, insert the cross awning pole and peg out - simple!

I am almost excited about selling the camper now

Is slubber AWOL?

She may be having a RL
As soon as the weather warms up she'll be back.

My Lenten fast has been very productive, not sure if I will turn much apart from camping obv.

Yo. Did you get the Palamos or the Pageant?

Only getting round to selling the camper. Deffo no pagent. Dh is getting into ogling lots of wildly expensive tents. It's now a competition to find the most expensive dutch tent

? Romantic weekend break to the Netherlands and a Vrijbuiter store. There you can spend hour upon hour going in and out and in and out of all of the de Waards and when no one is looking you can lie down inside them and lick smell the canvas.

Lolling but also thinking 'yes that would be a fabulous weekend away' I could roll naked on the oberlink brochures in our budget hotel

Rubs thighs

Sherry
It's all so much rawer and more thrusting when you read the blurb in Dutch.

I still have the De Waard brochure. Right thick and glossy the pages are.

Friends showed Dh bell tent today. He is sold on one

How about a vitual tour of Obelink looky look here

Our Palamos is on the page titled 51 Pyramide en groepstenten

Doesnae work on my ipad will check out that link tomorrow on the wind up up computer