The Cool Camping Guide to Festivals offers a h&-picked selection of no less than 50 of the best festivals across the UK & Europe, that caters for all tastes & ages, & even more recommendations in the 'like that, then you'll love...' section of each review. Whether you're after the huge, household-name giants, the best in cultural events, the boutique festivals du jour, or just a small, idyllically located camping weekender, we've covered a collection that is sure to have you digging out your tent this instant. Author, ex Time Out entertainment critic & festival veteran, Sam Pow, guides us through the heady, hazy, summer days & the crazy, colourful nights. Offering features on the best festivals for eco-friendliness, kids, or new music, as well as insights from seasoned festie heads & music luminaries such as Franz Ferdinand & Everett True & an exclusive perspective from Emily Eavis on her 10 best Glastonbury years, this guide captures all the energy & excitement of the festival season. ...

This best-selling travel guide gets a complete update in this fully revised Second Edition. Now covering 100 exceptional campsites & camping experiences across France, including 50 stunning new campsite discoveries, this is essential reading for camping on the continent. New sites in this edition include a sumptuous boutique campsite nestled in mountain woodl&, & a picturesque campsite in the Dordogne with its own private lake. With all the practical info you need, including the best campsites for kids, campfires, dogs, views, what you can expect to find on site, things to do in the locality & the best food & drink options around, this is the must-have guide to camping on the continent. Other books in the series include Engl&, Scotl&, Wales, Europe, Cool Camping Kids, the Cool Camping Cookbook, & the Cool Camping Guide to Festivals. ...

Brand new for 2017, a fully updated third edition of Cool Camping: France will hit the shelves in time for the camping season. Featuring 100 stunning campsites, from the high Alps & the snow-capped Pyrenees down to the sandy Atlantic coast & the river valleys of central France, this book showcases the very best of camping across the Channel, all personally selected by the coolcamping.com team. New finds include a family campsite in the grounds of a Normandy chateau with luxury facilities inside an old wine cellar, a riverside city escape within walking distance of France`s very own ` Little Venice` & a woodland wonder in Limousin where you can try your hand at panning for gold. With over 50 brand new locations featured in the book for the first time, this updated edition of Cool Camping: France brings readers not only the country`s best campsites but also a collection of the most luxurious glamping finds. Treehouses, yurts, safari tents & gypsy caravans can all be found among the pages. From a boutique bell tent hideaway on the banks of the Dordgone to modern geodesic domes in the Pyrenean peaks, there`s something for every type of camper. In trademark Cool Camping style, readers will enjoy entertaining, insightful reviews as well as practical information & hundreds of inspiring colour photos. There`s even a collection of `useful phrases` for campers to refer to. So whether you`re after traditional tent camping around a campfire or a 21st-century glamping experience, get set to discover the true creme de la creme of camping in France with this colourful guide. ...

The brand new addition to the best-selling Cool Camping series for 2008 is Cool Camping: France & it's the most stunning camping ...

Get the kids outdoors & loving it with Cool Camping: Kids In this brand new book, Britain s 60 best family campsites are revealed in full-colour glory, with crucial details for each site including on-site fun, off-site fun & nanny-state alert to keep children busy, happy & safe during their holidays. Think adventure playgrounds, rafting ponds, rope swings & campfires; organic farms, woodland glades & buckets & spades; stripy bell tents, yurts, tipis & gypsy caravans pulled by real-live horses; fun lessons on outdoor survival &, of course, loads of open space for the kids to run round & round until they fall over dizzy. Cool Camping Kids steers clear of the big corporate sites with karaoke & fruit machines in the clubhouse & instead picks a stellar cast of some of the most family-friendly sites in Engl&, Wales & Scotl&, all of which exemplify the free-spirited sense of adventure that Cool Camping is all about. Cool Camping Kids is also full of ideas about what to do when you re there & as cooking at camp is all part of the fun, the book

Includes:: a handy cooking section with some yummy treats which can easily be put together (with help from the kids) on a barbeque or campfire. A games section provides further inspiration for activities the whole family can enjoy & which won t cost a penny! With a special feature on family festivals & a round-up of the best residential kids camps in the country, Cool Camping Kids is the last word on family camping.

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Cool Camping Scotland is all about guiding campers to very special places across the country. Hundreds of sites are personally inspected by the Cool Camping team & those that impress make the cut
- the criteria not being how many showers or electricity hook ups per head, but the locations, the views, the surrounding area & the ambience. A campsite locator map shows you the whereabouts of each of the featured sites, a top 5 sites have been selected & the
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Cool Camping Wales is all about guiding campers to very special places across the country. Hundreds of sites are personally inspected by the Cool Camping team & those that impress make the cut
- the criteria not being how many showers or electricity hook ups per head, but the locations, the views, the surrounding area & the ambience. A campsite locator map shows you the whereabouts of each of the 60 featured sites, a top 5 sites have been selected & the ‘campsites at a glance’ section lists each site in the book according to whether or not it’s philosophy & situation are applicable to their any or all 22 different categories. Categories names include beach within reach, good for kids, cool for campervans, forest fun, dog friendly & cool for campfires. Colour photographs illustrate the guide throughout.
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New discoveries in this edition include a collection of hidden yurts within walking distance of Cornwall`s biggest exotic animal sanctuary, a tents-only site in the grounds of National Trust-owned Polesden Lacey Estate & an eco friendly Cairngorms campsite where you can go llama trekking in the hills. Every campsite review is accompanied by handy practical information including on-site facilities, off-site entertainment, the nearest family friendly pubs & all important directions to help you find the way. & every site has been selected with family camping in mind. Brought to life with entertaining, insightful reviews & hundreds of colour photographs, the handpicked selection of family campsites is also accompanied by informative features, including campfire recipes, family festivals & outdoor games for kids. So whether it`s paddling a canoe to the village pub, stargazing from the comfort of a luxury yurt or following sandy footsteps to a local beach, Cool Camping: Kids, from the people behind the coolcamping.com website, is the must-have book for embarking on your next family adventure. ...

Revealing England`s most stunning caravan site locations, Cool Caravanning presents a h&-picked selection of 60 great places ...

When author Peter Mortimer was commissioned to write a play about a little-known riot between Yemeni & British seamen at Mill Dam, South Shields, in 1930, he decided to take the long trip to Yemen itself in search of inspiration. Undeterred by post-11 September government warnings against visiting this `highly dangerous` area, Mortimer set off & found an extraordinary & surprisingly Anglophile country. Cool for Qat documents this remarkable journey, during which Mortimer pieces together how the riots of 1930 arose & considers their relevance to Western attitudes towards Muslims today. He meets many remarkable characters along the way & immerses himself in the national custom of chewing the narcotic qat leaf. After visiting the ex-British Protectorate of Aden
- through which many of the seamen passed en route to Britain
- Mortimer travels on to San`a & then Tai`iz. It is while visiting the isolated mountain villages surrounding this city that Mortimer finally meets men who worked in South Shields some 50 years ago. Carrying a battered book with images of Yemenis living in the North-east in the `30s from home to home, trying to jog distant memories, he realises his visit has taken on a new purpose
- bringing a small part of the country`s history back to where it belongs. Back in the UK, Mortimer`s investigations into the 1930 riot reveal a society with many striking similarities to current times. Then, as now, Muslim immigrants were treated as scapegoats for all manner of ills, tabloid newspapers drummed up prejudice & hatred, & the powers that be often used fear & racial mistrust to disguise their own economic failings. Cool for Qat questions just how `civilised` the Western world
- & Britain in particular
- is in comparison to Yemen. It is a touching, thought-provoking & at times humorous document of one man`s travels through a country about which little is known in the West.




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