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As new campers,my wife and I have just bought a Wild Country Homestead 7,and have just had a go at setting it up in our friends back garden. I have to say that the instructions were absolutely awful,and I ended up more than a bit frustrated at having to fumble my way through, though we sort of got there in the end.

Does anyone have any tips on setting one up, have we bought a good tent etc? Any advice would be very welcome.

Thanks, FB.

This tent is side entry one but the principle seems the same. I left the inner tents attached whilst I erected it, but leaving them out until the flysheet is up seems a more logical (and lighter) thing to do.

The tapes that run across the tent have a red tape sewn into them, they appear to show how long the tapes should be, thus how far the frame sides should be, though nowhere is this mentioned. Am I right, or do they have some other function?

Guess I'll have to have a few more goes before the off. Thanks again.