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Camping Airbeds: Are They Just A Pain In The Back?
For many of us the concept of camping brings up two distinctive pictures in our minds. One is the windswept traditional family holiday located in a windswept field in Devon with the kids maiming themselves on tree stumps and stinging nettles whilst you chase your illusive tent dances in the wind after which you pass out from blowing up you camping airbeds. The second is the mud soaked sheet that passes for a tent sinking into the mire at a festival.
At least these were the images I had until I stumbled across a website which changed my conception of camping airbeds. I was setting out on a camping trip, something that is not my usual style as I am more of a Four Seasons gent who lives for his creature comforts, well at least hot water. Opening the camping airbeds link and before me was an invention that would have looked more at home on MTV Cribs than on a webpage underneath a very reasonable price tag.
The camping airbed before me was a thing of majesty and beauty. The double layered self inflating air mattress can be used for camping and in the home. I started to visualise me proud compression on the lever that would inflate the bed as I sat sunning myself reading the paper whilst the other dads on the campsite were huffing and puffing into their lilo-esque, red cheeked and green with envy. I thought this was the perfect bridge between my hotel suite and the great outdoors.
Granted the camping airbed would mean an additional cost, as I would have to purchase a larger tent but the images of my tent-manor being the landmark and social centre of the campsite. This was my opportunity to get into camping however like communism, it was good in theory but there were a couple of practical hitches. The first being my inability to set up a basic pop up tent let along my Taj Mahal tent which required blue prints a team of civil engineers.
I had never seen so many poles and after my meagre effect of the smug inflation of the camping airbed was completely reversed by the site of me rummaging lost like a parachute ghost in the vast expanse of the tent, impaling myself on poles at regular intervals. To top it off a neighbour nearby came over and emasculated me by ordering me about with Ray Mears style expertise in how to put the tent together.
He did however comment on my camping airbed and I have to say I slept extremely comfortably, so much so that I now use the camping airbed as a mattress in my home. I have obtained a certain return on investment although my pride remains slightly dented, much to my wife's amusement. I would recommend quality camping airbeds to anyone looking for a good night's sleep whilst camping and they can double up as useful guest beds or mattresses in the home.
About the Author Dominic Donaldson is an expert on camping airbeds and contributes to trade publications on the subject.
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