I've only been camping for just over a year and I find that after every trip (I've done 7) I buy something, or even actually on the trip, this time I bought a large windbreak but the ground was SO hard I could not hammer it in..... My latest idea is that I desperately need a utility/kitchen tent. I bought a roof box and as I thought the car is still as full as ever. I have a micra which I can put the back down on as there are only 2 of us. The portaloo is taking up quite a bit of space although I could not do without it now! My free electric coolbox from Freecycle is great but that takes up bags of room. The tent packs up quite small and is the least of my worries. 2 chairs, a table, a camping kitchen, gas stove, half the utensils from my kitchen (and I still forgot the tin opener!!!).... The list is endless. I even took a gas heater last week just in case. I think I could fill a lorry if I had one
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I've read through all these posts and find myself nodding in agreement with everything thats been said. I don't have a windbreaker so thats one less problem for me than the rest of you, but I still find packing the car a problem.
I've only just started camping so I probably don't have all the things that you guys have, but on our last trip, admitedly only a 2 night stay for 2 adults and one child, I packed the car with the tent (Gelert Cadiz 5), 5 sleeping bags (we use 2 on top of the airbeds) a double & a single airbed, 2 stoves, 2 lanterns, food, cutlery,large water bottle, folding table & chairs, 3 canvas chairs, ice box with plenty of beer lol, electric pump for blowing airbeds up, kettle, pans, hammer, 3 pillows, extra gas canisters and a holdall with all our clothes etc. Okay, you're all thinking I take more than that, and you probably do , but the car I drive?........
A 1.1litre Citroen Saxo ....... and you thought you had problems lol
Quote: Originally posted by billyceltic on 05/9/2006
I've read through all these posts and find myself nodding in agreement with everything thats been said. I don't have a windbreaker so thats one less problem for me than the rest of you, but I still find packing the car a problem.
I've only just started camping so I probably don't have all the things that you guys have, but on our last trip, admitedly only a 2 night stay for 2 adults and one child, I packed the car with the tent (Gelert Cadiz 5), 5 sleeping bags (we use 2 on top of the airbeds) a double & a single airbed, 2 stoves, 2 lanterns, food, cutlery,large water bottle, folding table & chairs, 3 canvas chairs, ice box with plenty of beer lol, electric pump for blowing airbeds up, kettle, pans, hammer, 3 pillows, extra gas canisters and a holdall with all our clothes etc. Okay, you're all thinking I take more than that, and you probably do , but the car I drive?........
A 1.1litre Citroen Saxo ....... and you thought you had problems lol
Its amazing just how much space you can get in those, I used to get about the same plus wind breaks in a Citroen AX.... and still get 4 passengers and 70 mph out of it....
I know struggle with a Crysler GV with the rear seat taken out and there is only 3 of us.!!!!
We will alwys use what we take, the trick is to tell ourselves we wont use it and so dont take it.
We just been down to St Austell and I made a plan that we only take what we would so rightly require (not use)... big difference, keep to this rule and you wont end up taking the house with you... hehehehe
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going away last week the windbreakers went in the roof box.coming home 1 week later nothing would fit and the widbreakers were strapped next to the roof box and the kids got in their sleeping bags.we binned the double air bed after the 3rd puncture and we didnt buy as much garbage as we usually do on holiday.
Went camping at weekend, and my cousin amazed me by fitting the following in her vuaxhall astra:-, childs sit n ride peddle car, childs bike, tent, sleeping bags, folding table/seats, 2 large folding chairs with footrests, 2 small kids folding chairs, 2 windbreaks, 1 large gazebo, food and clothing for 2 adults and kids, inflatable rubber rings, and dinghy. I think she needed a shoe-horn to get in the driving seat! Oh, also cooking stove, pots n pans, big box of Charcoal n Firelights for the BBQ! Well!
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In a Zafira with 3 kids... break their legs and slide the seats right forward... more room for packing.
I have four kids and took an extra to Dorset so 7 up in my Zafira with a roof box. Hell of a squeeze but it fitted (left the bikes at home that go on the back tho) and they had more room on the way back.
I'm worried now. How do you all get this stuff in! I have a Izusu Trooper and when we all go away I borrow a 5x3 trailer and I still struggle to get it all in!
I do have two dogs so some of the boot space is taken up by them (they have to squeeze in between boxes with my kitchen stuff in though!) I took my son and his friend and one of the dogs away a couple of weeks ago and managed without the trailer - but only just!
I'm seriously considering using my horse trailer next time. Do you think I will have room for it on my pitch?
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Quote: Originally posted by tentpegjenny on 09/9/2006
Once you are towing a trailer you might as well tow a trailer tent/folding camper...... thereby starts the slippery slope
Trouble is we have no-where at home to store either a small trailer or a trailer tent etc. Think I might have to rip the front hedge out so I can get myself a trailer.
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, but the car I drive?........
....... and you thought you had problems 
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