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The tent that's more like a home away form home A BIT OF BACKGROUND TO START WITH: One spring afternoon may other half and I decided to take our first holiday. We booked for 4 days and 3 nights into a hotel in Paris. 4 days and 3 nights later we were back at our respective homes, still talking to one another, still happy together and with no blood spilt, talking about how we really ought to do it again. Now I'm no fan of beachy type holidays, going to bed at 7am and getting up at 5pm, preferring instead to be a bit more down to earth and peaceful, for me a holiday should be about recharging the batteries, seeing some interesting sights and enjoying ...  Read the complete review

In our search for ever more exotic forms of existence, Darlingest and I have decided that we need more holidays. Now that we have two small Nollyettes (actually called Eleanor and Rosie), holidaying can be a very expensive process. I myself cannot spare a couple of grand every summer in order to find a beach on a deserted part of the Cote d'Azur (oh, alright then, Skegness). We therefore needed to think laterally, and I don't mean on our backs! I was very dubious when Darlingest suggested we buy a tent. My mind was struck by memories of big, ungainly and awkward tents à la 'Carry on Camping', the kind of thing that needs an engineering degree or ...  Read the complete review

Raclet Bermudes Trailer Tent Before we had the girls we used to pack up our tent and head for the hills every chance we got (usually on bank holidays) to enjoy the great outdoors and drink beer. Once they arrived we stopped camping, not really a conscious decision, more a no money left to go anywhere decision. Then a few years back, with the girls getting old enough, we decided to try the adventure again and have never looked back, they loved it. Our first trip had been in our old ridge tent but half way through we decided to go for a big dome for more space and finally, after two weeks in France in 2002, decided we needed even more space and bought the Bermudes ...  Read the complete review

Camping is great fun, I have just returned from a few days camping in Northumberland with my two teenage children. Our tent is fabulous and I just had to write a review on it. It is the Vango Diablo 600, which according to the manufacturers sleeps 6. We are a family of 4 and find it very comfortable. Specifications of the Tent * Total Weight: 29.50kg * Pack Size: 72cm x 42cm x 25cm * Doors: 2 * Fabrics: Flysheet: Hytex Dura F/R Polyester(3000mm HH) * Inner: Breathable F/R polyester with H²O repellent finish * Groundsheet: Polyethylene F/R * Poles: Fibreflex * Pegs: V-pegs steel and hook/pin steel * ...  Read the complete review

Terra Nova is a manufacturer of high quality mountaineering tents. They were originally called winter gear and then wild country. To avoid confusion Wild Country still exist and still make tents, but they sold off their tent business to Terra Nova about 7 years ago and then recently started making their own tents again. I own two tents and one bivvy bag made by Terra Nova or their predecessors. The bivvy bag is approx 15 years old, winter gear goretex zip bag I have a trisar (small two man backpacking tent) approx 8 years old and a Quasar (big brother to the trisar, 2 man base camp tent) 2 years old. I give all three pieces of equipment ...  Read the complete review