Gazebos

[bollyhead]

Hi Im thinking of taking one of those cheap gazebos.

Im camping on brown?

Am i allowed?

Is it worth it?

Cheers in advance.

Bollyhead

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I'm thinking of taking a gazebo too now but it's just going to add to the weight of an already bloody heavy kit. You are allowed them according to the rules but to me they're just extra weight. We'll be making an makeshift one out of the flysheet on our tent unless we can find one in a shop for about a tenner.

It's not going to work though - our flysheet idea. We have a massive wind-break that we'll put by the side of our door and then we're just going to spread the fly-sheet over the top so it gives the windbreak a roof. The ingenuity of British eccentrics - or stupidity.

Any thoughts or suggestions for a guy looking to have proper meal every morning would be appreciated. Tried looking for 'tent awnings' but I'm not even sure they exist.

Edited August 22, 2010 by Dave The Hedgehog

[phil123]

Yes is well worth it. You can take one in any campsite but sometimes they seem to go for little walks in the middle of the night and never come back.

Am taking one too but it's just a cheap sh*t one. Took one last year and it broke in the night, l dont know how but it had 4 broken legs and it was up side down.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

You can take one in any campsite but sometimes they seem to go for little walks in the middle of the night and never come back.

[bollyhead]

got one in garden thats had its day.

may take that one.

if not might just take a big hat.

[phil123]

Where would you suggest getting one at this time of the year then? I've looked in Argos and the cheapest is about £20 and after buying a decent pop-up tent I'll be damned if I am caught in a field erecting something that'll take even longer than it does put the tent up.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Well, I've looked for a pop up gazebo to go alongside my pop up tent but I'm hard pressed in finding a cheap one. We don't have a Netto here - although we do have an Aldi and a Lidl, and I looked in Aldi for one the other day but couldn't find one. Home Bargains is another place to check. To be fair, a lot of these places - if they sell them at all, would be more inclined to put them on their shelves around the start of the summer season rather than at the beginning of the autumn.

I'm going to go and have a wander into town later and see if I can pick one up because I would like to be able to eat some decent food in the morning and our rudimentary flysheet shelter will be pants.

[phil123]

take some rope and some sort of extendable poll and rig something up off of your tent. or falling that just make friends with someone whos got one.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Normally I'm good at being able to improvise with things like this but this really has me stumped. What you're talking about is something like a rudimentary tent awning.

Here's my tent:

My idea was - bit difficult to describe, this, but... you see the red flysheet? Well, if I leave that unzipped and don't roll it up, I have a massive sheet flying about all over the place when it's slightly windy so my idea was to put a windbreak down the side of the tent and hook up the fly sheet door to the windbreak so that it creates like an roof over the entrance to the tent. Then underneath this I am protected from the rain overhead and with the windbreak I am, obviously, protected from the wind down the side.

I mean, from what I've heard they sell gazebos at Leeds anyway so this might be a temporary solution for whenever I get to there to see if it works. If it does, I'm a genius. If it doesn't, I'm ambitious but hopeless. There's a fine line.

[Electricityscape]

They sell them there pretty cheap apparently so we're just doing the 'if it rains get one' Easy enough to put up.

[disco-dani]

we got one for £14 from BnM bargain store. poundstretcher n stuff sometimes has them cheap. you have to build ours will poles though...

will be taking A LOT of tape!

[rexclark]

Yes is well worth it. You can take one in any campsite but sometimes they seem to go for little walks in the middle of the night and never come back.

Am taking one too but it's just a cheap sh*t one. Took one last year and it broke in the night, l dont know how but it had 4 broken legs and it was up side down.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Nearly picked one up from Donington Market but it looked a bit... shit.

Going to go into town tomorrow and pick one up. I tested out a bucket barbecue earlier and the flames would be too high and hot to go under the rudimentary roof so we'll be getting a gazebo. It makes more sense anyway.

[disco-dani]

we will have about 5 tents in our group and a gazebo, so if anyone wants to camp next to us you could come n sit in in if rains/watch our stuff