#TTOT Awards! Topic: Camping Trips
Welcome once more to #TTOT! The Twitter travel community’s excuse for a good old fashioned hashtag hoe down! Once a week we get together to discuss all and sundry on a particular subject and share our stories – good and bad – with other worldly wanderers. This week, the outdoorsy among us took to talking about Camping Trips and boy was it in-tents!
The questions on this week’s Travel Talk On Twitter were:
Q1: Advice for non-campers to get the most out of camping
Q2: What is your funniest/disastrous camping story?
Q3: Ever woken up with something in your tent that shouldn’t have been there?
Q4: What is the one extravagance that you must have on camping trips?
Q5: What’s your favourite camp-side food?
The obligatory ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Award for male bonding.
@rexyedventures: when my mate thought I was his girlfriend in his sleep and proceeded to try and give me a ‘special hug’ in the dales.
The ‘Charlie Sheen’ Award for sobriety.
@the_HoliDaze: Definitely beer and whiskey! Drinking games are not that fun with water, I’ve tried.
The ‘Urban Dictionary’ Award for unintended slang.
@GapDaemon: As long as you’re beating off the cobras that’s fine with me!
The ‘Scwarzenegger’ Award for going Commando.
@TysonJopson: Ask yourself ‘Will I die without this item?’ If the answer is no, leave it behind. I now camp without underwear.
The ‘Barbara Windsor’ Award for sauciness.
@Lozula: I woke up next to a naked lesbian once. Wait a second.. is this a different chat?
The ‘Them!’ Award for entomology.
@Destinology: Flysheet fully zipped, check, tent is sealed, check, nobody’s been out in the night, check. How did this massive ugly bug get in?
The ‘Mary Poppins’ Award for top notch child care.
@mariekreft: I once made a boy from school cry on a Snowdon trip by pretending to be a wolf howling outside his tent. Oops.
The ‘David Attenborough’ Award for loving nature in all its forms.
@SafariPeter: For ages I resented every solifuge that came into my tent. Then a leopard walked in. Arachnids were forgiven.
The ‘Jackanory’ Award for family-friendly story time.
@MzansiGirl: Lets just say that it involved eye-brow shaving, swimming with the tiger-sharks and the worst hangover of my life.
The ‘Edward Nigma’ Award for riddling me this.
@hjortur: Keep on trying. Argue with it. Eat it. Kiss it. Go all the way… They’ve got something for everything
And finally, two tweets that probably shouldn’t have appeared together on the timeline…
@kirstyabrown: In France, being woken up when a squirrel fell on my tent!
@MalloryOnTravel: Yeha – just heard the low bang as it exploded and then hysterical laughing.
Carry On Camping!
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Once upon a time in New Zealand, a very large, very loud, hissing cockroach landed on Hannah’s head. In Florida, she mistook a jellyfish for a plastic bag and was promptly stung. In Newquay, a penguin with murderous intent tried to eat her shoe. Despite all this, Hannah can’t be kept away from touching things that she probably shouldn’t in foreign countries. This is probably a misguided attempt at experiential learning. She has lived in Cornwall most of her life and is still trying to adjust to the time difference in London, despite having moved there many months ago. When she grows up she wants to be a Mexican Luchador.Subscribe
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Thank you for the Mary Poppins prize – I’m highly honoured. But I need to clarify one thing so you don’t think me an ogre: the boy in question was twelve years old and so was I! He used to pick on me at school, so making him cry with my wolf impersonations was fair payback …
Great blog, by the way.
Thanks, Marie. No explanation necessary – we’re just glad you got your own back!
Now had that squirrel exploded it might have made for a very different post!!!
Excellent discussion today, was laughing quite heartily at most of the conversations going on.
Trust us when we say we were chuckling along too.
Hahahaha, really, I get the ‘Charlie Sheen’ award… I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I’ll take it as good — means at least someone found me funny!
It’s definitely a good thing Derek. Keep winning.