Favourite Blogs and Channels Summer 2018

This is a quick post about camping blogs I am enjoying right now. They are all travel blogs or vlogs of one kind or another.

I'm particularly enjoying the long distance walking that the young Irish couple from Tough Soles are doing, although I'm no long distance walker myself! However I can live through them. Tough Soles

Alex and Bobs Scottish wanderings take my fancy, loads of posts over many years if you only start reading now you'll have plenty to digest. Blue Sky Scotland 

Also known as Tigermouse, Eunice is a Lancashire Lass who travels town, country and coast with dogs. Great photos of amazing places too. A Tent, A Caravan, 4 Wheels and Me

Gerry McVeigh is a Northern Irish Walker with an eye for videography, the shots of remote coasts and hills are stunning. He has a particular penchant for knee high shot angles, which really bring you down to clover level. Good music choices too. Gerry McVeigh Channel 

Tristan from the Mid West America takes us on a tour of his homeland by camping in the back of his car. Subscribe to him for multi day vlogging. SUV RVing

Ah the lovely Hiker in Estonia, this makes me want to go to Estonia, and apparently it's a little known, cheap holiday destination from the UK and everyone speaks English and people camp in little huts (put in place by their local authority) all over the many hiking trails, and nobody sets fire to the huts (the lack of vandalism is shocking) forget visiting, I might just live there! Hiker in Estonia

Vlogging for the first time and a last minute camping trip

This is my first attempt at 'Vlogging' as opposed to 'Blogging' and I have to say I really enjoyed it...however hearing my good ol' Northern Irish accent is a bit weird and I haven't picked up the courage to appear in person yet - so it's a running commentary style vlog. I do have more footage of this particular weekend coming. This particular video is a Tent Tour. The other footage I have is just out and about at the beach and out walking.

The weekend in question is from the very last weekend in September, and I went quite last minute without really planning it. Luckily most of my camping gear is within easy reach having not been properly packed away after a summer season (it is packed away now).

The location was the Wild Atlantic Campsite in Creeslough, Co Donegal and I spent time in Ards Forest Park, Dunfanaghy village and also Marble Hill Beach. It was a solo camping trip with Coco the dog. The weather was really bad, with the end of a Storm Irma battering the tent. The mud outside the tent was horrendous, the campsite was in a very bad state not that it's the owners fault it's just been so wet recently. The first night there was one other caravan and the second night there was only one campervan and me. I think they thought I was mad. The Glamping Pods were full, much to my disappointment as I was kind of planning to take one because of the weather report. However it all worked out ok in the end.

Enjoy!