Back Blip 1 - Camping Bug

Yes, I've got the camping bug now. Nothing since 1974, then the National Rally in July and now this past weekend at Braceland, Forest of Dean. No, not the place where Elvis Presley lived, that's Graceland!

The tent is certainly a huge improvement on the miniscule micro tent I had in July, thank goodness we didn't have the rain then that we had on Saturday night here. It was torrential but the tent was watertight, apart from that front bit where I had the groundsheet a little to far forward so the rain ran off the 'door' and onto the sheet. It was ok though, it all pooled where you see the chair.

In the evening we had a large fire, everyone (50 of us) sat around it having a convivial beer or two (more like 2 dozen in some cases) and talking about all things such as past military life, other rallies, motorbikes, and things we got up to in general.