Wales Environmental Home Education Camp - CLAS

[earwicga]

www.walesenvironmentalhomeeducationcamp.com/

Anyone been before? Wondering what it's like, and also cost of food.

Looks like fun, but would like to get some real life views from people who have been.

We've been past 2 years and dd would be furious with me if I didn't take her this year.

Food wasn't unreasonable last year, though we do mostly take our own and just had cafe food when I couldn't be bothered to cook. Though if you wash up for them they might give you free breakfast and pancakes!

Thought it was a lovely camp for people with little one's. Though each year there seems to be a wider range of activities so more for bigger kids to do - not just circus skills/fire show.

Only hmmmmm thing is the toilets; but they're okay to put up with for a camp I guess - less horrific than frequently used portaloos IMO. And I have to take dd swimming mid week because she won't shower properly (read that as pretty much the same as 'at all') and gets disgustingly mucky.

Would recommend it; in fact friends coming too this year so suppose I have :)

Hmm. I've never done camping before. Not liking the thought of that part of it at all and your post hasn't helped. It is closeish to civilisation ie swimming pool and shop type places?

How old do you mean by little ones? My kids will be 9 by then.

sorry! The shower isn't bad - just dd won't shower even at home.

dd was 4, will be 6 this year.

Friend's kids went past two years and I think the older was 11 last year - they enjoyed it both years; think was less for teen age range the first time we went definitely - but last year they were doing more den building/woodcrafty type things.

Swimming was an afternoon out; more because dd gets strangely cross with everyone about 4 days into a camp and going somewhere breaks it up for her - if she'd shower we'd have done something else instead.

Is small village and shop in reasonable walking distance, and a nicer town if you're happy to walk across the fields; with nice ice cream :)

Thanks. I think I should try out camping first before thinking of going all that distance.

Unless I win the lottery first and can have one of those yurt type houses in the field thingys :)