I hate cool camping

[CerealOffender]

all the really nice campsites are now booked out with buntingtastic nobs.... bah!

Oblomov we did exactly the same as you (came home in between our two weeks "holiday" in N Wales).

I'd go back if there is a mixed forecast. Camping is great when the sun shines and you'll be kicking yourself if you're sat at home with lovely weather.

if it is nowt but rain I'd stop at home. It's meant to be a holiday not an ordeal, and you're not being paid to do it.

The weather this year tipped me over the edge. next year we are going abroad.

and if you go for 4 days maybeyou can justify going out every night for dinner?

Oblomov - I love camping when it's nice weather but absolutely loathe it when it pisses down. I came home yesterday after a very sunny weekend and then it chucked it down on Sunday night. I was awake for half the night, worrying that the new tent would leak (it didn't) and the rest of it I had hideous nightmares (totally unrelated to rain). My limit is really 3 or 4 nights in the UK and I don't do more than a day or so or rain. There is no shame in going home to a hot bath if the weather's foul :)

slubber you didn't make it to the brecons then? it was damned wet you could see the clouds settle over the beacons
but tent was nice and snug, lovely noise rain on the tent roof at night

Glad you stayed dry ninah. I love the sound of rain on canvas too....just not all the goddamned day and night.

we had a lovely weekend camping. although there was bunting and i witness the bizarre windbreaker empire building that you have all been going on about.

I am quite tempted by joining in the windbreak empire building after someone parked their range rover about 6 foot in front of my tent door

to join in, rather

can't you just ask them to move it? and if they refuse, hammer in some tent pegs in front of their wheels

We stayed on a Featherdown Farm 'glamp' site a few weeks ago. It was lovely. We lived out every Guardian-reading twunt job stereotype there is to live out, including ordering in a takeaway when cooking on the 'rustic wood burning stove' got fucking tiresome after two days.

Twas bloody brilliant. I would do it again.

well there were enough dry spells for dc to run around with other children - one family even organised a 'sports day' lol - and we had the festival going on, so really was great
Wild would have been something else
really glad I went and looking forward to a few trips next year
lol at windbreaker emperors, yes noticed a few of those

roar @ pyt. did you decant the takeaway into terribly pretty little enamel dishes?

I asked them to move it one day and then the next day they came back after a day out and parked it in the same place

I think he was jealous that our fire (built by two women) was more successful than his :o

what a nob

my particular objection to cool camping is that there are now yurts cluttering up one of my favourite campsites destroying the ambience. I could tolerate this except that yurt residents always spend aaaages hogging the washbasins doing their eye make-up and brushing their ethereal hair. I once had to wait 10 mins while the yurt-dwelling waif in front of me stood at the washbasin trying on several different pairs of ethnic earrings. The yurtists probably felt (not unreasonably) that as they'd paid £400 for their weekend in a yurt that they were entitled to a good chunk of washbasin time.

are you in england? the scottish 'cool camping' sites are so remote they're never that busy.

any scottish ones within 3 hours of the central belt are fairly busy

God, no@Cereal. We like doing the 'drinking well water out of tin mugs' thing. Tis rustic. I can have my pretty Cath Kidston kitchenware any old day

lol @ PYT and seth's basin time yurters

Bunting I can cope with but for the 2nd year running we had noisy shaggers in our field.

thanks for making me feel better about it slubber and others. dh feels like we have failed, but i couldn't give two monkeys awnings !!

i don't think it is possible to do 2 weeks on the trot in the uk anymore. you can get lucky in june or september with dry spells but that is useless if you have kids at school

cerealoffender there aren't many capsites in the cool camping book 3hrs of the central belt.. they're all up ullapool way or on the islands.

no there are loads like rothiemuchus, ardgualich farm, red squirrel etc.

we went to the one on the west highland way, basically just a field and a knackered old barn but it was really nice. which are the nearest 'cool' sites to glasgow, would you say cereal?