OK update time.
Re doing the holiday in the tent, we have done the hotel, the villas, the caravans, the tents in South of France and them ore we have talked about this the more we are both getting into the idea of doing it by tent in OH.
Hopefully it would then be something that we would continue to do , maybe a few weekends away over the course of the year.
My mate has offered me the use of his tent - a Gelert Colimo 4TD as seen here
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gelert-Colima-4-TD-Camping-Tent-2010-/270575476802
He uses this for weekends away primarily as a base for hill walking etc.
He argues that this is the best option for us because
a. its free so no need to buy until we have had our week and decided if it is something we wish to do again
b. he reckons this is as high as we want to have in the OH where many of the sites are exposed to the conditions.
However I find it quite claustrophobic - I can accept the argument for lack of height but this only has 90cm each side of the sleeping accommodation and I just find that too small for simply being able to sit on a seat and have a beer , listen to music etc.
Went to Go Outdoors today again and if we were going with a low height tent, then I would be tempted towards
Outwell Dusk 4 at £80 www.gooutdoors.co.uk/outwell-dusk-4-tent-p321984
or Dusk 5 at £120 www.gooutdoors.co.uk/outwell-dusk-5-tent-p321584 has more height and a bit more living space.
I liked the height (and price) of www.gooutdoors.co.uk/freedom-trail-sendero-4-tent-p286258 but I once had a pair of Freedom Trail walking boots and they were awful quality so I am not sure the tents would be any better!
The Vango tents do seem to be better quality but you obviously get what you pay for.
As with many products you could pay more and more and need to decide at what price level / features you need to go for. Integrated groundsheets / footprints, carpets etc!
As a side note, have also discovered / realised that the daughters's boyfriends grandparents come from Barra (McNeils believe it or not) so he is going to make enquiries from the ones up there as to where to go / pitch etc .
Sad as this may sound to some, we are both actually getting quite excited about doing a holiday totally different to what we normally do and to a certain extent, outwith our comfort zone. Over the course of the last year we have taken up a lot more activities - me with cycling and the missus with hill walking and running so much more fitter and active than we were a year ago! And much less inclined to want to go a beach holiday abroad!
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