I want to go camping, I don't want to take a stove. I NEED my morning coffee...

[FillyjonkIsMilitantAboutFruit]

So....I want a nice cafe which serves actual coffee made using beans.

FRESH poncey food a bonus also.

(this is where forestry commission sites fall down)

Stuff like compost toilets and general countryside malarky etc is fine, actually its good. The fewer tin tents the better (oooh)

So, does such a campsite exist, preferably in south wales or nearby?

And if not...well...

Sorry.

I am thoroughly ashamed.

Still, it's better than instant!

What you really need is to go camping on the Masai Mara

"A typical day starts early as coffee and fresh biscuits are bought to your tent."

oh yes I DO, thats exaclty what i need to do.

too small

fgs I am in CARDIFF, remember? hankerchief sized gardens

though otherwise, yes I would. can't see a problem with that, really.

Jamie oliver does a camping stove? Where can you buy one?

hmm

I STILL do not have a campsite with an organic coffee shop 90 minutes from cardiff here

mush, os gwelwch yn dda. ta.

we have a kelly's kettle .. its really cool .. no stove needed

find the cafe and work backwards

ie

there is the most fabulous cafe in the world ever .. the most delicious food .. big field out back .. has papers .. its called The Farm Cafe and is in Suffolk .. about 8 miles away is Dunwich Heath (beach National Trust) and there's a campsite there

farm cafe .. totally recommend the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on granary toast

oh Filly I feel your pain!

We went camping last year and had a stove solely for making coffee - banished kids to play and I made whilst dh guarded the stove. I cannot think of any adivce but know exactly what you mean.

I know some campsite you can hire a pitch with an electric socket and you could get one of those just for using a kettle.

a kelly's kettle

in-geeee-nious

interesting....

there is a fair bit of fire involved in the kelly's kettle though, no?

small amount of twigs at the bottom in the enclosed tin then you plop the kettle on top (so it covers it) ... there's a chimney up the centre and the water is round the outside ... you can put a small pan on the top and cook something

its really quick

of course its metal so heats up so you'd have to keep kids away from it

but it is really in-geeeeeee-ni-ous

I did see an enclosed barbecue device called a Cobb (I think) that didn't heat on the outside .. it said one could cook pizzas in it .. I'm tempted by that

cobb-barbecue .. I want one .. i think

Twiglett, did you see they are looking for agents?! If you buy one it's an excuse for lots of camping holidays so you can cook flamboyantly (scuse the pun) and sell them to neighbouring campers, then claim the mileage back on your tax return!

Twiglett have you got the kelly kettle? dh was looking at them last night, just to have in the back of the car, for thirsty moments

I do like the look of the cobb