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Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | No, I do not honestly!

Oscar Núñez Alfaro — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:49:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Post title: No, I do not honestly!

I prefer to have a room and a bed to sleep without mosquitoes, please. ;)

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | Why I don't enjoy camping...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:19:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Why I don't enjoy camping...

1st time
Many years ago, at a time when money was very tight, I decided to go camping in the Algarve with my children. So, I spent money on buying a tent and some essential equipment, and we set up the tent for the night on what seemed a pleasant spot overlooking the beach, without realising that we had pitched it right over a rabbit burrow. During the night, the rabbits made a lot of noise because they wanted to get into their home. My son, who loved scaring his sisters, decided to make up a spooky ghost story. My camping holiday ended in tears the next day!

2nd time
A few years later, some friends of mine decided to go camping in Andorra and asked me if I wanted to go with them. My children were on holiday with my mother and, as I had never used the tent again, I accepted. After a bumpy journey in a small car, we crossed Portugal and Spain in suffocating heat. We arrived in the evening, the sky threatened rain, but nothing could have prepared us for what happened: suddenly it started to rain heavily and the intense rain devastated the campsite where we were staying. No one died, but some trees were uprooted.

So, there will be no 3rd time…

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | Racing weekends

Maria Laura Curzi — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:39:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Maria Laura Curzi
Post title: Racing weekends

When I was a kid, we used to travel in the family motorhome (restored by my father and uncle, it was a Mercedes-Benz 911) to see Turismo Carretera races during weekends.
Friday afternoon after school was the time we used to leave, to spend the whole weekend by some roadside field to see the race.

Also, we used the motorhome to go on holidays every year during my childhood, traveling all along the country. We shared some great moments and got a lot of anecdotes/stories.
Some 20 years ago, the family sold "Marta," and some time later we came to know that it sadly burned up.

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | Yes

CasaPhil — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:18:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: CasaPhil
Post title: Yes

My parents had a blue VW T2 camper van (Westfalia trim) with an air-cooled petrol boxer engine and rear-wheeled drive, and we used to visit countries in Europe or other French regions during the summer holidays, sleeping in the van wherever we stopped. A decade of summer holidays, from Scotland (1976, one year before the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth) and Belgium to Sicily and Portugal. At the time, there weren't that many regulations about where you could park and spend the night. We even went to Paris to see a musical and slept in there.

We learned from an early age to pack the needful only, brush our teeth with one small glass of water and keep our stop spots spotlessly litter-free. The setting was luxurious: 12V backup battery to power the indoor (weak) lighting, manual pump on the sink to draw water from the onboard tank, 4 sleeping spaces (one suspended width-wise above the front seats and wheel), 10-liter rubber pressurized container for shower (outdoors), gas cooker and fridge, chemical toilet (to be used sparingly) and a folding bicycle to go errands.

Then the van was passed on to our generation, tents were thrown in to increase sleeping space, and she went on around France during holidays, by the sea, in cities or in mountains. It got more difficult to spend a night outside a campsite without being told off by officials.

The camper van is still being used in the family 52 years on. She and her sound never go unnoticed.

That being said, last time I went camping (in a camping ground, not couch surfing at friends') was about eight years ago by the Mediterranean. Too much to do, too little time.

Philippe

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | Not anymore

Sebastian Witte — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Sebastian Witte
Post title: Not anymore

In my late twenties or very early thirties, I once cycled from NRW to the Weserbergland and then along the River Weser to where the Rivers Werra and Fulda meet to form the River Weser in a small town with 700 half-timbered houses near the "border" to Hesse. I stayed in my North American-made tent purchased during my travels in dedicated campgrounds dotted along the way, once actually during a fierce nocturnal lightning storm, in a campsite stretching out between the rivers.

[Edited at 2025-08-30 09:57 GMT]

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | Yes

Lieven Malaise — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:49:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Lieven Malaise
Post title: Yes

I adore it. Every year I go on a 5-day family camping trip, and apart from that I go a few times a year on 2-day hiking trips.

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | NO!

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: NO!

Did it only once many, many moons ago and it was more than enough! :mad:

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | In a vane attempt

WolfgangS — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:34:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: WolfgangS
Post title: In a vane attempt

to stop more questions of this kind:
I enjoy (not necessarily in this order):
- nice food
- Rosé wine (in summer)
- Red wine (in automn, winter)
- the movies
- swimming
- flying by airplane
- reading, reading, reading
- translating
- voice over recording
- women
- birds
- all other kinds of animals
- watching TV
- making love
- running my E-bike
- Italy
- warm summers, mild winters
- dogs
- cats
- CAT-tools
- my Mac
- walking barefoot
- nice people
- NO CAMPING

I know there's more ...

[Edited at 2025-08-30 08:35 GMT]

[Edited at 2025-08-30 08:36 GMT]

Poll: Do you enjoy camping? | yes, during winter...

Gregor Trebec — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:23:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: Gregor Trebec
Post title: yes, during winter...

I like camping but during autumn and winter, when there are no more mosquitoes and other creepy crawlies around.
Never tried to set camp fire tho...

Poll: Do you enjoy camping?

ProZ.com Staff — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you enjoy camping?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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