Tree top glamping is a fascinating and unparalleled experience and takes most of us right back to childhood memories. Its popularity is increasing as more and more off ground glamping structures are designed and built to provide a unique and leafy canopy bedroom On Spanish soil there are various glamping sites offering tree top builds … Continue reading Tree Top Glamping
Author: karensouthall
Articles and blogs on gambling, glamping, growing pains and greenhouse gases.
Fighting for their Future
My daughter is 14 and is preoccupied about the survival of our planet. When I was 14 I spent my time mostly bothered about boys, spots and whether I had too much eyeliner on. Although according to my friend Sharon you could never use enough eyeliner. The point is I’m angry that my child’s concerns are beyond … Continue reading Fighting for their Future
My Children Made Me Cry Today
My children made me cry today. Their selfish and inconsiderate nature touched a nerve, a raw nerve, which has been slowing fraying after months of soul destroying and heart breaking news which is filtered through the internet, television or from the mouths of those around me. I’m surrounded by people with cancer; more than 120 … Continue reading My Children Made Me Cry Today
Spanish Glamping and Retreats
Some 25 odd years ago when I was just out of college I landed on the island of Tenerife with my backpack at the start of my travelling years. I remember asking the waiter in a local bar if he had something on the menu for vegetarians. After a puzzled look and a shrug he … Continue reading Spanish Glamping and Retreats
Puberty v Menopause
Once upon a time there was a very lovely, sweet-natured little girl who lived in a house with her calm and sensible mother, her patient and caring father and cute, if not somewhat annoying, little brother. One day puberty burst into the house uninvited and announced itself with a flourish. It transformed the very lovely, … Continue reading Puberty v Menopause
The House that Ecobrick built
With a world currently suffocating in plastic, ecobricks are fast becoming a quick fix to eliminating plastic waste whilst also providing a cheap and effective building material. There are ecobricking communities emerging all over the world and various projects have been set up to utilise the plastic within plastic capsules. Indoors they are being trussed … Continue reading The House that Ecobrick built
Plastic is NOT Fantastic
But it’s not though is it. Plastic is anything but fantastic. When Mr Baekeland invented Bakelite in the early 1900s synthetic plastic boldly breezed into town. Basically it was a product manufactured without any molecules found in nature. It was completely and utterly unique and was proclaimed to be “the material of a thousand uses.” … Continue reading Plastic is NOT Fantastic
A bloody good party
Once upon a time there was a young, adventurous and slightly stubborn girl who decided very early on that children, mortgages and marriage were not for her. Instead she packed a back pack trotted off into the sunset for a few years until she landed in Spain and unpacked (a few things). When she hit … Continue reading A bloody good party
The Price of Power
Ever since solar power first made its debut in the 1960s the development of this technology has evolved immensely and today there are various products out there in the world of luxury camping products, whilst also providing power for glamping sites. From mini panels for backpacks; solar panels for campervans and even solar tents, if … Continue reading The Price of Power
UZBEKISTAN
A gambling market overview. After independence in the 1990s Uzbekistan began to gradually outlaw all forms of gambling, mainly because of its strong Islamic background and also fears of gambling addiction problems and links to crime. By 2002 even the lowly billiard game was banned. Apparently billiards was prohibited in the name of ‘legality and … Continue reading UZBEKISTAN
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