A momentous day has arrived, it’s time for my first ever camping adventure. The weather, in true British fashion, is awful with the rain starting to come down thick and fast and the winds picking up. I’m quite nervous about the weather, especially after reading the weather warnings, but also very much looking forward to the experience.
My husband, on the other hand, is quite an experienced camper so he is providing me with some comfort in the knowledge that at least somebody knows what they are doing. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately considering our love of shopping, he didn’t retain any of his previous camping equipment so that meant we had to go out and purchase everything…from scratch.
Finding the right tent was an arduous process with lots of research on the internet trawling through various camping websites and forums and watching many, many pitching videos on YouTube. We asked for as much advice as possible from as many people as possible and ended up with this beauty:
That's right, it is the Outwell Hornet XL from the smart air polyester tent collection and it is everything we wanted in a tent: spacious, practical, easy to put up and pack away and good quality. We have a groundsheet and a carpet for it as well as all the other accessories we are going to need to make our camping experiences enjoyable and unforgettable.
We stumbled across a fantastic shop to purchase the tent and many of our accessories from called The Family Tent Shop http://www.thefamilytentshop.com/ they have showrooms in Guildford and Shepperton. We went to their Guildford showroom and found them to be extremely helpful , knowledgeable and quite reasonable.
So far I have only experienced the tent in our back garden and I fell in love with it so I can't wait to experience it on the camp site this weekend...
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