Camping Travel Store Blog

If you're in need of a new Sleeping Bag for the coming Camping Season, please remember that we are Snugpak Dealers and carry a range of their Sleeping bags in stock. I have been lucky enough to use a selection of these sleeping bags, both on family holidays and whilst on cub/scout camps throughout the year. As a cub leader, the sleeper extreme has to be the most popular by far. It's a fantastic bag, that will see them through to Scouts and onto D of E. It's well priced for the insulation and features that it offers.  The Navigator is a square bottom bag - suitable for summer camps, and indoors for Beaver (younger persons) sleepovers.  The travelpak's are available in all seasons and come with the extra facility of having a built in mosquito cover for the head area.....great if sleeping under the stars and back to basics / bushcraft activities. The Chrysalis is a jump in money for a more technical bag with a smaller pack size. The zip baffle can b

Our Karsten and Canvas Tent Camping Guest Blog from Geoff on his Karsten 300 - It's really informative... Please click on the picture link to go to his review. Text Link:  http://www.ourcanvastents.me.uk/karsten-300.html

Guest Blog from Richard and Serena (Karsten Owners) Hi James & Suzie This time last year you were shovelling snow off your front lawn to show us the Karsten tents. Since then we've spent a fantastic year trying out our purchases as often as we could and just thought we'd email to let you know how successful it's been.   We started off with a long weekend in Lyme Regis last April (photo with rainbow) when the days were sunny but the nights were perishing .The Karsten was warm and roomy even when filled with fellow camper friends who didn't want to go back to their own freezing tents... June we took it to the wilds of the West Coast of Ireland for a fortnight (photo by water) where the famous Irish climate chucked just about everything possible at it. We were camped literally feet from the Atlantic Ocean but the Karsten barely noticed it was in the eye of the storm much of the time. We slept like babies, the tent barely moved and we emerged sever

A few pictures of our first display of 2014  Now with Cabanon & Snugpak Tents Please see our website www.campingtravelstore.co.uk for further information on all the fantastic tents