Expert Camping Gear Reviews & Guides
Right, be honest with yourself for a second: how many times have you turned up at a campsite, tent bag under one arm, and started scanning the ground for “a decent rock”? It’s a rite of passage, and it’s also completely unnecessary. A proper camping mallet buying guide exists precisely because most of us treat … Read more
There’s a very specific sound that haunts every family campsite on a Friday evening: the wheeze of a middle-aged parent, red-faced, hunched over a stirrup pump, muttering things that definitely aren’t in the tent’s instruction manual. Somewhere nearby, a neighbour’s electric pump hums for ninety seconds and their tent is already up, complete with them … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of panic that hits at 11pm in a British campsite: you’re crouched in the porch of your tent, rain drumming on the flysheet, and your phone torch is doing its best impression of a dying firefly. A rechargeable tent light solves that problem before it starts. In plain terms, a … Read more
Every seasoned camper has a story about fumbling for a zip in pitch darkness, elbow-deep in a rucksack, phone torch clamped between their teeth. A clip on tent light fixes that particular flavour of misery in one small, unglamorous move: it hooks onto a pole, a guy line, a bag strap or the tent’s own … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of misery reserved for the camper who’s fumbled their way into a tent at 10pm with a head torch clenched between their teeth, trying to find a phone charger while their dinner congeals outside. A hanging lantern for tent use solves this in one move: a single light source, suspended … Read more
Picture this: it’s half nine on a damp Friday evening somewhere near the Peak District. You’ve just about wrestled the flysheet into submission, and now you’re rummaging through your rucksack by the pale, dying glow of a headtorch balanced on a sleeping bag. Sound familiar? It shouldn’t still be happening in 2026. LED strip lights … Read more
There’s a particular kind of misery reserved for fumbling around a dark tent at midnight. You need the loo. Your torch has rolled under the sleeping bag. Your phone battery is at 4%. Outside, it’s raining — because of course it is, this is Britain in August. A decent best tent light doesn’t just solve … Read more
There’s a particular British camping moment every tent camper knows. You’ve had a brilliant day — a scramble up Helvellyn, a soggy wander round a Somerset farm campsite — and you arrive back at the tent porch absolutely caked in mud. The wellies come off. But where do they go? If you haven’t planned for … Read more
You’ve done it again. You’re half-asleep, it’s quarter past midnight, rain is tapping against the flysheet like a bored child, and somewhere in the dark abyss of your tent floor lies your head torch. It’s under the spare socks, or possibly the map, or — most likely — nowhere useful at all. British camping is … Read more
Picture this: it’s half past midnight somewhere in the Lake District. You’re half-asleep, it’s drizzling (obviously), and you are absolutely certain your head torch is somewhere in this tent. But where, exactly? Buried under a fleece? Shoved in your boot? Still in the car? You spend four minutes patting around in the dark before giving … Read more