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We have two camp kits.
Our big tent camping involves a very full trailer, nothing in the car (dog has the boot), and bikes on top of the car.
Small tent camping is a bit more difficult. If we take the dog (which we do 99% of the time) she has the entire boot apart from a box with wet weather stuff. We take a roof box and everything goes in there. Small tent kit includes SIMS, which are actually bigger than our air beds when packed if the truth be known but take less room in the tent. Small chairs where you sit low to the ground, a tiny aluminium table for drinks and a Trianga stove for cooking as well as lights and one box of kitchen stuff - probably 2ft square. Clothes bags in flat rectangular holdall things on half of the back seat.
If we didn't have the dog then all that would fit in the boot and we could put our bikes on top of the car.
We bought a tow bar mounted bike rack for two bikes last year because I really struggle lifting them on top of the car. My husband usually works away for at least half of the year, with the tow bar thing I can take my daughter out somewhere for a bike ride. In theory we could take the roof box plus one bike on the top and then two on the tow bar thing so we could take the bikes even with the dog these days.
I wouldn't be able to take a table/chairs/kitchen set up without the trailer but I really enjoy the simplicity of small tent camping if I am honest ... for three or four nights max. Our small tent is very cosy! Literally enough room for three sims, the kitchen box and the dog's bed.
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Topic: Weekend advice
