Tags archives: glamping

WTF is Champing?

WTF is Champing?

03/06/2020
England, Off the beaten track
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A little known term that you may very well have never heard uttered previously - the name "champing" is a cute abbreviation of "church camping". And church camping is, well, camping in churches - perhaps unsurprisingly. But I don't mean flinging up a 2 man pop up in the cemetery - champing means actually camping inside the church buildings themselves. To be [...]
Fall in Love with this Glampsite Just an Hour from London!

Fall in Love with this Glampsite Just an Hour from London!

11/06/2019
Countryside, London
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As a Londoner, I’m always looking for excuses to get out of the city (temporarily, of course) on a cheeky weekender. For some time now, I’ve been trying to find an appropriate glamping experience that’s feasible from London. While there are a few options for glamping within easy reach of London, almost none offer decent transport links due to the o[...]
5 Helpful Travel Sites You Should Totally Bookmark

5 Helpful Travel Sites You Should Totally Bookmark

10/26/2019
Inspiration, Top 10, Travel Tips
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The travel market is, undoubtedly, wildly saturated; modern booking sites serve us everything from package holidays to Corfu with ya nan to mind-boggling flight routes that guarantee the lowest fare. With monolith sites like Booking.com, Airbnb and Skyscanner, travel booking has never been more accessible - but with convenience comes apathy, and it's easy to[...]
Remembering Rachel: Hippie in Heels

Remembering Rachel: Hippie in Heels

07/03/2019
Goa, Inspiration, People
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If you follow the travel blogging community, you will have found it hard to miss the awful news that Rachel Jones, author of the popular women's travel blog Hippie in Heels, recently passed away unexpectedly (May 2019.) Her free-spirited nature and long-running India-centric blog are incredibly well known within the worldwide travel community, and if you’v[...]
10 Practical Christmas Gifts for Travelers

10 Practical Christmas Gifts for Travelers

12/15/2018
Inspiration
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Every December (without exception) me and my mother do the annual pre-Christmas standoff in which she insists she must buy me something, and I insist that she doesn’t. It’s not that I don’t appreciate her gifts, its just that the spare room in my parent's house looks like a graveyard of non travel-friendly items that have spent the last ten years g[...]
Hotels We Love: Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge

Hotels We Love: Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge

05/13/2016
Hotels, Tanzania
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Have you ever been to Heaven on Earth? I have: Well, actually this is of course a much more tangible place than Heaven. This is the Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge in northern Tanzania. After trying and failing to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro last June my dad and I treated ourselves to a luxurious getaway close to Ngorongoro Crater nature reserve and Serengeti Na[...]
Our top 10 Travelette-y Glamping Destinations

Our top 10 Travelette-y Glamping Destinations

05/02/2016
Favs F, Off the beaten track, Top 10
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I love being outdoors, nature, hiking and everything that goes with it. Well all, except actual camping. I can manage for a night or two but I won't be very happy. There is something about sleeping in a tent on the floor or in a caravan that just makes me feel very uncomfortable and claustrophobic. Add to this having to walk through Hippo-infested areas in o[...]
Glamping in the Desert: 5 Cool Tent Camps

Glamping in the Desert: 5 Cool Tent Camps

12/21/2014
Hotels, Off the beaten track
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Dry heat has never been my thing. Other than just about every person from Central Europe who I had this discussion with, I prefer the humid air of the rainforest over the arid climate of deserts. When I visited the Californian Death Valley a few years back and we took a short walk in a small canyon, the dry air made my lungs feel compressed, my body deprived[...]
A girl in the wild - The art of camping in heels

A girl in the wild - The art of camping in heels

07/04/2014
Personal Stories, popular posts
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Remember this picture of me when Katja first introduced me as a new Travelette? I had just attempted my first ever official camping trip. Well, trip sounds a bit too grand, it was one weekend, but nevertheless I was proudly wearing my borrowed headlamp and drinking my pink champagne. The headlamp would be useless a few hours later as I was fumbling with the [...]
Top 5 Spots to Go Glamping in California

Top 5 Spots to Go Glamping in California

08/09/2013
California, Off the beaten track, Places
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Glamping is one of those travel trends that sounds good & looks even better. It’s the thing to do if you’re a glamorous Travelette who sometimes likes to kick off her heels in a pretty tent cabin before heading out for an afternoon in the trees. We’ve previously shared some of our favorite places to go glamping in Australia, but we’re ready to ta[...]