Sunday 11 May 2014

A Spot of Market Research

Ladies and Jellywobbles, this is your invitation to join me in a wee spot of camping-related Market Research. I'm going to have holiday. You wanna come?

Here

L and I have booked ourselves and our monster tent a spot there from Sat 24th to Tues 27th May. It seems a shame to go off and have tons of fun without inviting your friends along, so would you like to join us? For a night, for two, for a day out to a castle?

Ecological vandalism notwithstanding.

Experience tells us that the tent has a comfortable capacity of 5, and I don't see Comrie having an issue with us phoning up and saying "that booking for 2 - can we make it 4?"

Or you could just happen to be camping with your own tent at the same site, at the same time. Then we could have adventures and camp fires together and you wouldn't have to listen to me snoring. There is also a hostel for sissies.

Logisisticals - 

Our wee set of wheels is only really big enough for our two butts and all of our comfy-camping accoutrements. If you have a really small butt, no personal belongings, and an affinity for small uncomfortable spaces, we'd be happy to give you a ride. If you have a big butt, a friend, stuff, and/or a concept of personal space, there are trains and buses that go to Perth, Stirling, Crief, etc. whereupon we could pick you up, if you time matters so that we'd have already pitched the tent by then. I think there's actually a local bus that goes past the campsite road-end for the truly self-sufficient.

Bogdan is very happy with his space arrangement, but that is pretty much the size of the boot.

The rest of our plans have not yet been planned. Past form tells us that the following things are likely to be included if at all possible:

  • Sitting around
  • Sitting around in a hammock
  • Sitting around playing scrabble
  • Sitting around playing folk music
  • Going for walks 
  • Occasionally going for big walks
  • Buying fancy sausages from the butcher in the village, and fancy bread from the baker in the village
  • Feeling smug about supporting local economies. 
  • Visiting castles, more often Historic Scotland properties, cos' L has a fancy membership thingimy

  • Interpretive Dance
  • Afternoon tea
  • Sitting around a camp fire
  • Sitting around a camp fire eating
  • Sitting around a camp fire drinking (the cranberry gin might be about ready)
  • Climbing trees
  • Getting stuck in trees
  • Getting rescued from trees.


So... have I sold it to you? 

If you think you might happen to camp there at the same time - whoopee, I'll see you there. If you think you'd like to join us in the Bell Tent of Wonder, probably best to call, text, email or fb message. Unless you are the lucky owner of a very fast and accurate carrier pigeon, in which case I excitedly await* its arrival.


Happy Camping, peeps.


*There I go, tap-dancing on your split infinitive rules. *Raspberry*

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