I’m back with another UK Vegan Campout Review following my review from last year when we went to UK Vegan Campout as a family. This year, in 2019, we went kid-free, so just me and my husband Ben so it was a different experience. I’ll share my thoughts with you today and lots of great photos from UK Vegan Campout 2019!
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One of my biggest regrets of my twenties and pre-kid life is not travelling the world. When I left school it wasn’t something that interested me or that I had a passion for. I worked the same job for nine years before I had my first daughter and I liked the security of it so didn’t want to ever leave it to go travelling. Now I really wish I had!
In my thirties and with two kids and a mortgage, I now, rather annoyingly, have the thirst to travel! Only now I can’t just save up and zip off around the world for a year or so as I have responsibilities. Why, oh, why did I not have this passion and desire in my twenties or late teens when anything was possible?!
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We’d recently bought a Mazda Bongo Friendee with a pop top and wanted to start using it for camping trips around the UK.
It wasn’t a full camper conversion, but it gave us enough space to sleep and travel comfortably, and the idea was to use it for simple camping trips rather than anything complicated. Park up, explore on foot, and see how we got on.
For our first trip, we chose Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula and stayed at Greenways of Gower campsite. We’d never been there before, but it seemed like a sensible place to start, a well-known campsite with amazing views and scenery, coastal walking routes nearby, and a beach within easy walking distance.
We kept the trip short and went without the kids. Just one night, enough time to get used to sleeping in the van, work out what we’d packed unnecessarily, and note the things we’d want to change or add for future trips.
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