I am unveiling my We Are Camping project at Port Eliot festival this year, 23rd-25 July. The event will take place on Sunday 25 July in the camping field at 2pm. I am a big fan of the Port Eliot festival, being their very first paid customer way back when. I have been researching...
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Real camping requires a campfire. Find the campsites that will let you have a campfire on our UK map. Plus, it includes our selection of cool and interesting campsites
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Our second visit to Dernwood Farm in the heart of the Sussex Weald offered a completely different perspective to this wild campsite from our first; at the Lovewood festival we pitched beneath a pylon at the wrong end of the field. On our return, we pitched at the entrance of a glade, a patch...
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Sunset at Cloud Farm confers a brief moment of well-being,
and memories of old friends from The Idler magazine.
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Tom’s Field is a popular campsite on the Southern end of the Isle of Purbeck, which is not really an island so much as a hearty peninsula situated on a turn-off from the holiday traffic crawling West through Dorset. Like so many of the Cool Camping selections, Tom’s Field struggles to maintain its allure...
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We went for a stroll around a camping fair held in a field at the back of Middle Farm, near Lewes. Dozens of tents were pitched for the inspection of prospective buyers, from the Vango Dart 200 – a pop-up festival tent – to the enormous Wolf Lake 7, a grand’s worth of polycotton...
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