calling all campers - what tent do you have?

[TheMadHouse]

Morning all

I thought we could have a camping roll call

What tent do you currently have?
Where have you been this year?
Where are you planning on going?
What do you lust after camping wise?

I am nosey. I also think we should do a MN camp too

I will start.

What tent do you currently have? Outwell Utah 6 with canopy

Where have you been this year? FIL field

Where are you planning on going? off to Henley this week, then Northumberland, York , cheshire and then not sure

What do you lust after camping wise? I would love a flowery windbreak and a fat airic

What tent do you currently have? Outwell Wolflake 7 - it's bliss

Where have you been this year? Solent View near Lymhurst, loved it.

Where are you planning on going? Hoping to go to France in school hols, want to try Swiss camping in Henley sometime before that.

What do you lust after camping wise?

A matching Outwell windbreak and more time off for dh.

We have a soulpad 4000 lite

We have been to Cornwall twice - porthcothan near Mawgan Porth, in a lovely little off the beaten track campsite right on the cliffs. Watched a beautiful sunset on Friday evening. We have been to Burrator on Dartmoor.

We are planning on going to france at some point, but not sure when. We are planning on going back to the campsite we have just been to, and we are planning on finding as many little off the beaten track sites with good sea/river access as we can find before I stop camping for the year due to pregnancy.

What do I lust after? Long term, a woodburner. Short term (more realistic this year!) some bunting for my guy ropes and solar fairy lights for the inside of my tent.

What tent do you currently have? Quechua 4.2 seconds base

Where have you been this year?
Ingoldmells,Ormesby Broad,Peterborough showground for motorhome show.

Where are you planning on going?
Touring france for 3 weeks from 20th july.

What do you lust after camping wise?
Nothing really as i'm really excited with my set up already

What tent do you currently have? Outwell Vermont
Where have you been this year? Nowhere so far
Where are you planning on going? Wolds Way, North Yorkshire in August
What do you lust after camping wise? An extension for the tent would be nice but I suspect with the rest of the gear I might be pushing it getting it in the car! and no money left to buy it anyway.

What tent do you currently have? outwell sun valley 8 2008 variant (was a different shape to any other year)

Where have you been this year? Pembrokeshire, nowhere else as had a rugby bash to fit in as well so far

Where are you planning on going? sandy balls, christchurch in forest of dean

What do you lust after camping wise? Hmm, there's not masses we don't have sussed; got a Cobb, perfect chairs, sleeping all sorted.... wouldn't mind an outwell indian lake for weekend camping, but honestly? not much now. DH wants a Pendant light before we go to SB this year as we've not used EHU before

Mag - we are off to Swiss Farm on Sat - I will let you kno0w once we return!!

What tent do you currently have? Vango Vail 500

Where have you been this year? Birchwood Farm near Matlock

Where are you planning on going? Devon in July. Longer term would like to try France, but have a long list of sites to visit in this country.

What do you lust after camping wise? A cobb, after seeing it on another thread here recently.

My tent is a 2-berth vango similar (but older lol) to this

Where have I been this year?

Twice to Swanage area

Twice to the Peaks

Once to the Lakes

Where am I planning on going?

This friday it's off to the Peaks again, Stanage area

Next weekend we're doing a seaside weekend at Wells, first camping trip without any climbing lol

What do I lust after campingwise?

Seriously (please don't make fun of me for this confession) most of the stuff all the materialistic campers on here show off having lol, but mostly some roll mats of something to sleep on

What tent do you have - Outwell Florida 6 (bought last week as an upgrade from our Wynnster Sattelite 12)

Where have you been
Scotts farm (witterings at Easter)

Where are you planning on going
Wellington Country park - this weekend to try out new tent
Scotts farm or shell island in summer hols
Somewhere quiet in suffolk with dh when children go to grandads for a week in summer hols.
Duinrell in Holland - last 2 weeks of August

What do I lust after
A nice set of melamine camping plates & bowls as i'm fed up with flimsy cheapo, plastic ones
Did want a moka espresso pot but have just bought one of those

What tent do you currently have? Outwell Montana 6

Where have you been this year? Nowhere yet Have never left it so late before!

Where are you planning on going?
Angelsey in July,Northumberland and Snowdonia in August
What do you lust after camping wise? More weekends in the summer holidays

What tent do you currently have? We finally decided on Vango killington 600

Where have you been this year? Where are you planning on going? nowhere yet , our first trip is to Ripon when dc break up for school , week in Wales in August , The Lakes for a weekend and hopefully more just need to plan around dp rota!

What do you lust after camping wise ?
Not sure yet , probably will be looking to replace the air beds next year!

What tent do you currently have? Outwell Montana 6 with. canopy

Where have you been this year? Nowhere yet.

Where are you planning on going? North Norfolk in July, undecided in August maybe Wales.

What do you lust after camping wise? Whole weeks of cloudless skies and beautiful sunsets (been reading happy campers again ).

Currently have a Khyam Kansas 8, and we are using it for the first time this weekend - near Margate! I lusted after my friends one last year, so I bought one We used to have the Khyam Tourer 600 till friends took it off our hands on Saturday!

We are going to France in 5 weeks - 2 weeks near Royan and a week in the Loire.

We might go away again later in the summer if we get any good recommendations

What tent do you currently have? An Aztec Galleria 6
Where have you been this year? Lake District - Eskdale
Where are you planning on going? France - La Garangeoire in the summer, Debden House in Essex this weekend
What do you lust after camping wise? Ooh, I'd love a canvas tent, a Bearlake 6 preferably. Or a good sun canopy/extension thing but it wouldn't fit into the car.

bigTillyMint - am with you on the Happy Campers

What tent do you currently have? Outwell Norfolk Lake, 2 Quechua pop ups, Vango Venture 500, tarp.... oh I could go on but it's embarrassing

Where have you been this year? Dorset for the fabulous Whit week. Weekends are much too busy at home to do much weekend camping.

Where are you planning on going? France this summer for 3 1/2 weeks - 4 sites,Normandy, Dordogne, Loire and Picardy.

What do you lust after camping wise? SUNSHINE I have too much kit as it is!

What tent(s) do you have: Outwell Kansas 5 - our starter tent, got hooked and needed something bigger so got Outwell Idaho XL which is fantastic but huge, so got Outwell Indian Lake (my new baby) as a new posh tent for shorter trips. at having three tents.

Where have you been: Hoarwithy nr Ross on Wye (twice)

Where are we planning to go: Off to Cromer for a week on Friday Yay
then hope to go to North Wales in August and then probably a few weekend trips - back to Hoarwithy, maybe Symonds Yat or Malvern - oh yes and a trip to Devon too in July to see family . DD1 starts school in September so we will be at the mercy of school holidays next year

What do I lust after: happy kids and a chance to relax. Ooh and a Fat Airic and Outwell Lux sleeping bag.

Thanks Lucycat for having more tents than me

What tent do you currently have?

Cabanan canvas tent, Lichfield canvas tent & a bell tent. We LOVE canvas!!!

Where have you been this year?

Wowo in east sussex so far

Where are you planning on going?

back to Wowo & probably somewhere in the lake district

What do you lust after camping wise?

I'd love a nice kitchen set up for the long hols. And a hammock.

tinateaspoon.

we just offloaded our old Outwell Colorado 8 to some friends who have just started camping - so otherwise it would be even more tents!

Have just remembered what I long for most - a trailer to put all our stuff in. Lovely to have a big tent, but the poor dc's are jammed into the car.

tents -Outwell bear lake 4 new very exciting used last weekend was lurverly - vango oregon for loaning/friends
been -
Postern Hill, Wiltshire - one of my favourites
black something farm - not great

planned
Merkins farm near Bath
Eweleaze- 2 weeks in August
at least one or 2 more weekends not sure where yet as try to convince friends they will love camping!

Lust after...having just bought tent and accessories am currently banned from looking at anything but think will probably need at least a windbreak more this year..

tent(s) - Montana 4 with canopy (perfect), montana 6 (too big), robens twinstar (ok for weekends but we prefer to all be in together not vis-a-vis)

been= nowhere yet

Going - lots of local weekend trips, here in July and 2 festivals planned so far (Green man and Beachdown)

hopefully more spontaneous trips as well.

Lust after ... fairy lights, ..have just got fat airics, ...nothing else at the moment as have been keeping away from camping websites to avoid uncontrolled spending.

dusty! howdy!

hang on when did you get 2 Montys?

Hey Dusty

remember if it pisses down at green man we're not far away