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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 27/6/2022

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A wooden army blanket sounds rather uncomfortable.

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Quote: Originally posted by urbster on 27/6/2022

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Zempire whilst expensive make top quality gear with excellent customer service and guarantees , they also do a “roof cover “ for their tents which deflects heat and stops damage from UV rays.
Just wondering if a Zempire roof cover could possibly fit your tent ?

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Quote: Originally posted by morepints on 27/6/2022

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Sean is bang on. Best tent, apart from folding camper, we had for the Mediterranean climate was the Cabanon Guadeloupe . We’ve done it cheaper, but it was tricky.
Other issues we found:
1 a fridge is important, but many local sites will hire them, or have refrigerated lockers.
2 cool airbeds condense out sweat, to the extent you may wake up in a puddle! A wooden army blanket or similar is good at absorbing this.
3 try to find shaded pitches, particularly from afternoon/evening sun. Using a tarp is a good idea, have been known to put one over the tent with a breeze gap.
4 no need to sunbathe, you’ll get a tan anyway.
Hope you have a great holiday.

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Quote: Originally posted by billy on 27/6/2022

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Go to any campsite in Spain or southern France you will see much the same mix of tents as are used in UK. Any tent within your budget will do equally well UK or Spain. As pointed out most important is a shady pitch. Most sites down there do have trees though.

Worth pointing out though that even the locals find southern Spain too hot in July/Aug to if your holiday is then just stick with France or north Spain just over the border.

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Quote: Originally posted by Pixie_Hez on 27/6/2022

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When we first started going to France in a tent many years ago, we had a big tent but quickly realised that what we really needed was more outdoor shade rather than a big tent so we switched to a smaller cotton canvas tent with a great big event shelter with flyscreen sides. All we really used the tent for was sleeping and getting changed in but the outdoor shade was used constantly.

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