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Travel: returning to familiar places

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Camping by the Lake Balaton Vadvirag kemping Balatonszemes Balatontourist

Travel is all about discovering new places, new experiences and new adventures… or is it? Can travel be about returning to the same place again and again and discovering more nuances about a place? Years ago, I remember being very surprised when a friend was going back to the same holiday park in Devon for […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Campy Van, Europe, Family fun, Travel Tagged With: Balaton, Balatonlelle, Balatonszemes, camping, Campy, Campy life, childhoodunplugged, deli part, family, flying solo, holidays, Hungary, madventures, natural childhood, relaxing, Rudi Tanya, single parenting, southern shores, sunset

My first time in a motorhome & impressions of the Rimor Katamarano 9

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Rimor Katamarano 9 ©Mumonthebrink

At the Camping and Caravan show this February, we’d been looking at all sorts of camping units to fit diverse camping styles- different sized tents, caravans, campervans, tiny caravans- everything except motorhomes. Motorhomes were not on our radar mostly for budgetary considerations and none would fit our family… or so we believed! Then we spotted one with writing […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Campy Van, Review

Podding along at Billing Aquadrome Northampton

by Jennie 4 Comments

Billing Aquadrome

If you’ve never camped in a tent, you might wonder what all the fuss is about when it comes to camping pods springing up at various campsites.  Pods are the latest in the glamping craze – a static construction on site, which a family can stay in and access all the facilities the site has to […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Family Fun, Review, UK Tagged With: Billing Aquadrome, camping, camping pod, family camping, Northampton

Campy goes on the ferry and ends up in Nieuwpoort, Belgium

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Dover port campy dethleffs caravan europe ferry dfds seaways nieuwpoort 13 © Mumonthebrink

It was a gorgeous sunny day and somehow, with 100s of miles ahead of us, we ended up with an unplanned stop at the beach. Having fiddled around with tyre pressure, mostly for reassurance, we missed our 6 am ferry by about 15 minutes.  The majestic DFDS Seaways ferry was just finishing loading as we […]

Filed Under: Camping and Caravanning, Campy Van, Europe, Travel Tagged With: Belgium, Campy, caravan, crossing, Dfds seaways, English Channel, Ferry, VIP lounge

10 Lessons Learnt Camping with Kids & Single Parenting

by Mumonthebrink 3 Comments

… or would the title be better as Mr Bean goes Camping?   (I certainly felt like Mr Bean at times.) We popped home on the weekend to wash and do washing after our fabulous “a place called away” adventure at Aldridge Hill in the New Forest READ about our Aldridge Hill adventure I had it […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, UK Tagged With: camping, Campy, caravan, parenting, single parenting, Travel, wales

3 great outings on the Gower with kids 2 to 7 years old

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Worms head tidal causeway

  Having heard so much about how beautiful the Gower peninsula is, this week came the time to explore it for ourselves.  Our short week in this beautiful part of Wales did not disappoint.  Exploring it with my brood was great fun, perfect for bonding with little modern life distractions.  I had no agenda for […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Family fun, Natural Childhood, UK Tagged With: beach, camping, Gower, kids, Travel, wales, walks

Travel Budgetting: 10 tips to help your money take you further

by Mumonthebrink 15 Comments

We, like most families, have a limited budget and limited time but want still to travel a lot as a family of five. Here we discuss how I do our travel budgeting to travel an average 8 weeks a year with 3 kids. .We are travellers of the more independent variety, cost conscious, but we […]

Filed Under: Camping and Caravanning, Europe, Travel Tagged With: budget, car travel, roadtrip, tips, Travel

A Postcard…with love: the New Forest, UK

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Postcard with love New Forest Aldridge hill

  My Dear, We’re having such a fabulous time with our friends in the New Forest at Aldridge Hill campsite.  It’s hot and the kids are in the stream constantly; discovering all sorts of small and large critters, building dams, swimming, swinging, cycling. I totally understand why this site is referred to by the Camping […]

Filed Under: A postcard, Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Natural Childhood, UK Tagged With: camping, natural childhood, New Forest, postcard

What? No toilets or showers? Camping at Aldridge Hill

by Mumonthebrink 4 Comments

  What better (or more insane?) way to start our summer holidays of camping, than to pick a site with no facilities aside from drinking water and chemical toilet disposal point? And to top it, invite a friend with her 3 kids who is “not into camping” and loves her 1-2 showers a day. Two […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Natural Childhood, UK Tagged With: Aldridge Hill, camping, campsite, Campy, holidays, natural childhood, New Forest

The campsite with it’s own natural adventure playground, Haltwhistle

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We arrived at Haltwhistle Camping and Caravan Club campsite at 11pm.  That was about 13 hours too early for when we were actually booked to arrive. It’d been a stressful day, involving some last minute, unplanned shopping. And here we were in the darkness of night, 3 children sleeping in the back of the car.  We were […]

Filed Under: Camping and Caravanning, Review Tagged With: camping, camping and caravan club, campsite, family camping, review

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