Glamping....

This week-end is our annual camping trip with friends to Suffolk.

We're not natural campers that's for sure but this is our 5th year of going with 10 other families and it's always a great week-end.

We go to a large campsite in the middle of a forest, set our tents up in a circle, build a pretty impressive kitchen on one side and we're good to go!

We arrange for a local supermarket to deliver food, our local butcher packs up burgers/sausages etc in cooler boxes for us for the BBQ and we all bring our best salads for Friday night and favourite cakes for Saturday tea.

We also have a cocktail hour each evening :)    

My children of course absolutely love it....

from the minute we arrive, they grab their bikes, find their friends and they're off....

the freedom & space for them is fabulous.

And for the grown-ups....

well, there is great food, the company of friends all week-end & lots of laughter.

Tea & magazines....cricket & games....

"Glamping" aka "glamorous camping" is increasingly popular these days....

I love our large tent & if it came with a real bed and duvet, I could probably be persuaded to go more often!!

Take a look at some of the great camp-sites on offer below.... 

"Hobbit House", Cornwall, England...my children would LOVE this!

Camp Kerala specialise in luxury tents at festivals and can also provide up to 30 large tents for wedding parties....fun!! 

Featherdown Farms...."civilised rural breaks"....

I have a few friends with children who have stayed at various Featherdown Farm locations around the UK and loved it.

It's camping but with wooden floors, a stove and proper beds! 

They provide you with a larder to cook or you can eat with them -  and all the locations are on real farms so that children can help with feeding the animals etc.

Camping in the Dordogne, France - luxury tents with a swimming pool & tennis court.