Wild Camping With My Girls

 For a long time I've been keen to take the girls camping, but something always comes up or gets in the way. That's why I was pleased when a mate mentioned that for his daughters birthday he'd like the girls and me to go "wild" camping with them. 

So no tents. My eldest has been camping before (admittedly in different circumstances as was a huge scout camp!) but not like this, and my younger daughter is yet to sleep outside (bad dad I know). They were both super excited about it though. 

We were camping in a "wild campsite" where the is a long thin woodland along a river the other side of Brecon. When we arrived the others had already picked a camp so we strung up our tarp and set our bivi bags out with sleeping bags inside. 

Luckily the girls fit in one bivi bag so it would help to keep them warmer (it got down to about 2 degrees C), also saved me from having to buy a third bivi bag just yet! 

We ate like kings the whole weekend - in fact probably too much food in all honesty! I hardly wanted my fry up on Sunday morning! 

The really great thing was how much the kids loved it. We gave them plenty of freedom and let them go off in their little group so long as they looked after each other. They would go and wash up the plates and cups in the river or just go and climb trees or create games, I always love seeing children happy in the woods. 

They slept really well, didn't get scared in the dark and just behaved brilliantly all weekend - they really do make me proud. 

They seem very keen to do it again and I really must make time for it as it's something I enjoy as well.

Who else likes to camp without a tent?