THE MONTH
Things that caught our eye
GLAMPING ON THE GO Glamping is set to hit the road with a new concept in luxury trailer-tents – the mobile yurt. A fold-up version of the upmarket tent has been developed by Lake District entrepreneur and keen camper Hamish Foulerton that offers all the features of glamping but with the freedom to move from site to site. But upmarket camping on the move doesn’t come cheap – the Go Yurt will cost you a cool £18,000. For your money you get your own shower and toilet wet-room, a fitted kitchen and wood burning stove. It opens out to a 14ft diameter space with a wooden trellis frame, cooker and fridge ready to link to camp site hook-ups. It’s also fitted out with top quality furnishings from John Lewis and Next. There are LED lights in the floor and ceiling, and the wood-burner stove can be fitted in the centre or at the side. There’s an air-dry heating system so that the yurt can be packed away wet – and then plugged in back at home to dry out. Campers interested in trying the Go Yurt can book a trial weekend at the Windermere Camping and Caravanning Club site. See www.goyurts.co.uk for details.
From the Oct 14 issue
BOXING CLEVER
Forget bothering with expensive activities on camping trips – kids are just as happy messing around with cardboard boxes.That was the message from Haven holiday parks, who put the theory to the test during the summer. Camp Cardboard toured 25 Haven parks during the holidays, providing youngsters with nothing but piles of recycled cardboard boxes, paper based tape and their imaginations to create anything from forts and mazes to giant cardboard sandcastles. www.haven.com
IDEAL CAMPING COMPANION? A survey has revealed that most British campers would pick their immediate family or friends as their ideal camping companions, with 57% choosing to take their children. But given a chance almost one in ten of men would like to go camping with David Attenborough or Ray Mears, while women would prefer Bear Grylls. Almost one in ten (8%) of those surveyed by Go Outdoors say they go camping to get some alone time. www.gooutdoors.co.uk
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