The new issue of The Chap contains my article on the Edwardian camping scene and includes invaluable advice as to how a chap should camp (in tweed, a Gentleman’s Kevlar), coinciding with the forthcoming publication of The Art of Camping.
The Chap also includes a brilliant article describing how to use the remnants of a hearty dinner to re-enact key battles in British history; in this issue, the Battle of Waterloo.
Tag: vintage camping
Vintage camping by the river
Five men camping beside a river. Perhaps six. A dixie on the fire, coffee from the pot, and one of them doing the washing up. Is that a sixth man leaning back in the shadow of the tent’s interior, or a bundle of rags. The men lie or sit on the ground, gazing down at their various tasks. Some are barefoot and all are wearing what appear, to my untrained eye, to be sleeping caps. The year is 1873 and we may just be spying upon breakfast at camp.