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Well, now it's the summer and what does the summer mean? Holidays, and for us, camping.
Jun 26,2015
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Richard: Well, now it's the summer and what does the summer mean? Holidays, and for us, camping.

 

Jackie: Yes, we've done quite a lot of camping together. If I remember rightly, Richard, our first camping we did together was in Sicily, wasn't it?

 

Richard: Yes. We had a week's holiday there.

 

Jackie: Under… In… in some olive grove. It was very nice.

Richard: Yes. A number of years ago now and we're still using the same tent.

Jackie: Yes, but, Richard, was that something that you did when you were a child?

 

Richard: Not really um… I remember going camping with friends [laughs] only in the back garden.

 

Jackie: Oh, really?

 

Richard: We never went camping as a family, no.

 

Jackie: So when did you first start camping as an adult?

Richard: I think with you.

Jackie: Oh, really?

 

Richard: I think so.

 

Jackie: That was the first time? Wow. Well, that tent… I think I bought that tent over twenty years ago. It's done very well but it's… it’s not er… it’s not like one of those modern tents now, is it?

Richard: No. It's a very old, rigid er… cotton 'A' frame tent. Traditional tent.

Jackie: Yeah, cotton, I mean they're not made of cotton nowadays and also the… the poles are these rigid poles they're not flexible poles.

 

Richard: So, Jackie, what do you like about camping?

 

Jackie: Oh, I suppose it's because um… I really like nature, and it's the great outdoors, isn't it?

 

Richard: Mmm, that lovely fresh air and er… waking up with beautiful views of the countryside.

Jackie: Yes, lovely. Only problem is of course, Richard, is if it's not sunny.

Richard: Yes, we went camping recently, we woke up in the morning, opened up the tent and it was raining.

 

Jackie: Mmm, however, having said that, I'm really proud of the fact that I still managed to cook bacon and eggs. We have a... of course we have a portable gas stove and er… I was able to make breakfast at the front of the tent.

 

Richard: Yes, 'cos most people think of the camp, old-fashioned, around the campfire.

 

Jackie: Singing

 

Richard: Yes [laughs] but not now, is it? It's um… bring forward a bit more. It's a bit more trendy now, isn't it? So we've got, as you mentioned, the portable gas stove, we've also got a gas lamp as well, haven't we?

 

Jackie: Mmm. And normally when we eat of course we have er… a folding table and chairs.

 

Richard: And pots and pans and plates, everything you need.

 

Jackie: Yes, and it's almost a bit embarrassing because we have, like, a second set of cutlery and crockery, you know, plastic plates and knives and everything. It's a little bit embarrassing.

 

Richard: Well, I don't know…

 

Jackie: No, because we don't even have sleeping bags, what do we use instead?

 

Richard: Well yes, no sleeping bags on a hard ground. I wouldn't be able to sleep then. We've got er… a blow up mattress and we always take along our duvet.

 

Jackie: Mmm, yes. The… the other problem we have with the tent though, is there's only just room for the mattress and we've gone ahead and bought a brand new, big tent.

 

Richard: Yes, luxurious, so now to go with all our gas stove, table and chairs, we've got a fancy big tent so we really are… 

 

Jackie: Glamping

 

Richard: Yes [laughs] we're joining the… the jet set* glampers.

 

Jackie: Well, that's glamour camping. We're not quite that way but er… we certainly do it with some comfort, don't we?

 

Richard: Yes

  

*The jet set means ‘an international social set made up of wealthy people who travel from one fashionable place to another’. It can also be a verb: She’s always jet setting around, or another noun: He’s a famous jet setter. It’s not used very much nowadays.


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