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Guides

Book Review: Wilderness Weekends

This is less of a review and more of an homage to one of my favourite books and travel writers. Wilderness Weekends by Phoebe Smith was the first book I bought to inspire my early wild camping adventures. As the title suggests, this book is a guide to 26 overnighters across the UK in wild …

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Ford Transit Connect Camper Conversion

Ford Transit Connect Camper Conversion

This post documents my Ford Transit Connect camper conversion journey. I started the project in September 2020 when I sold my car and bought a 2012 Ford Transit Connect long wheel base high roof panel van with 55,000 miles and a lot of potential. I’ll keep this post updated along the way. Use the links …

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Wild Camping Kitchen: Jetboil

Wild Camping Food: What To Eat On a Wild Camping Trip

This wild camping food guide offers some guidelines and ideas for what to eat on a backpacking trip. Specifically, what to eat if you want to eat well. This guide avoids processed prepackaged foods and focuses on real food high in both flavour and nutrition. I wrote this for people like me who want to …

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Wild camping in Snowdonia

Leave No Trace

Eat Sleep Wild endorses the “Leave No Trace” philosophy. “Leave No Trace” describes the 7 best practices for respecting the outdoors and protecting our natural spaces. It should go without saying that you should always leave a place the way you found it, but unfortunately this isn’t always the case. Even in the most remote …

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Minimalist Car Camping Checklist

Minimalist Car Camping Checklist (Printable)

This Minimalist Car Camping checklist was originally written in 2008 following a ten day tour of England with a tiny car. This is how to travel when you want to take a camping trip but still keep things pretty lightweight. “Minimalist car camping” is particularly great if you’re changing locations every day or every other …

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Wild Camping Checklist (Customisable, Downloadable)

What should you pack for a wild camping adventure? The answer will of course depend on your specific interests and level of minimalism / maximalism, but there are quite a few basics that everyone should take. This is the wild camping checklist I use. You can download it as a PDF or WORD file (the …

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Cycle touring in Wales

Tips for Cycle Touring in Wales

I’ve just returned from an incredible (and way too short) cycle tour of Wales. In four days I covered just over 100 miles from Chepstow to the Elan Valley following various branches of the wonderful National Cycle Route the whole way. The distance is a testament to the challenge – there are hills a plenty …

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Essential Foot Care for Happy Adventures

If you’re like us, then going on an adventure usually involves a fair bit of walking, be it on a long day out up a mountain or on a multi-day trek across country (also sometimes involving mountains!). There are two things we’ve found that can make or break a trip: proper foot care, and solid …

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Eat Sleep Wild Trips Abroad

How to Take a Cycling Holiday in France & Spain

I’ve just returned from a 3.5 week cycling holiday through France and Spain, a journey of just over 1000 miles from Cherbourg to Santander (with a few stops and diversions along the way). I was a little nervous going into it. Would my legs poop out? What if my bike breaks? Are the hills going …

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What to Eat on a Bicycle Tour

I’ve recently completed a 1000mile bike tour through France and Spain and wanted to share a little bit about the food I ate along the way. I tried to eat well, choosing foods that would energise my journey rather than drag me down. This is pretty easy to do in France and Spain, where there are …

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Where to Buy Threaded Camp Stove Canisters in France and Spain

If you’ve ever camped in France and Spain then you know that Camping Gaz is ubiquitous in most supermarkets, gas stations and general stores. However, if you’re coming from the US or Great Britain, then it’s very possible that you have a camping stove that takes a screw-on gas canister (often sold under the Primus …

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Packing checklist for a bicycle tour

Bicycle Touring Checklist

I recently returned from a 4-week bike tour through France and Spain, carrying all of my own kit and camping along the way. Some people have commented that they can’t believe I travel so light, while others have said “how the heck do you fit all that on a bike?” You can fit a surprising …

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Though I love the mountains I think at my heart I’m a woods person. (Must have been all those childhood camping trips to Wisconsin!) Kept it super local this weekend with walks out my back door including this little birch wood with a pipsqueak of a hill that feels a bit like another planet compared to the surrounding meadows. A nice little spot to listen the birds and indulge in some deep thoughts…. 
“…I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
- Robert Frost
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Sunset at the homestead. A little let down by the Sunset at the homestead. A little let down by the tent. Why on earth the Terra Nova Laser Competition “2” doesn’t come with guy ropes by design is a mystery to me! Fortunately this is not my tent. 😂
A couple van updates. Kind of boring, but pre-requ A couple van updates. Kind of boring, but pre-requisites to something exciting: walls! I’m going for a rustic cabin look with wooden cladding. However, with absolutely zero straight edges in the FTC there’s no getting away from some exposed metal bits. So I’m covering these with gray 4-way stretch automotive carpet. I’m also working on a coffee-inspired shallow shelving area in one of the recesses - not totally sure I’ll pull it off but I’m compelled to try… this van is super small so every inch of space counts! Other things: added extra insulation to the van cavities; started wiring up lights and switches (still need to figure out what leisure battery I need); enjoyed a beautiful sunset. Tomorrow should see some walls going in!
Never forget your roots. I was a late bloomer to w Never forget your roots. I was a late bloomer to wild camping. Wasn’t a thing in the USA. At least where I lived. So here in hideously inappropriate clothing I found myself thanks to basically being lazy on the coast to coast walk. circa 2006. And life has never been the same! #coasttocoast #wildcampinguk🏕🏞🔦🇬🇧
Bothies on the brain! But this one's a slightly di Bothies on the brain! But this one's a slightly different story, etched in my mind as "The Horrible Bothy". This is a tale of Type 3 fun in the Black Mountains, an ill-fated night that defied all romantic tales I read about in books. Told from the smallest bothy in the MBA, Grwyne Fawr. I think I would have slept more comfortably in a coffin. If you feel like reading it, you can find the link in my profile (see "Latest Blog Posts") or head over to https://eatsleepwild.com/blog/ ⠀
Excerpt: ⠀
"I generally find bothies a bit spooky on my own. And even with a friend, that latent fear of meeting other people is off-putting. Apparently some people actually enjoy the social element of bothies which is the exact opposite of why I go to these wild remote places in the first place. But I digress again.⠀
Another lesson…⠀
Tents are best. And in poor or very cold weather, making bothy times at home with candles and whisky is pretty damn good, too."⠀
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