I was first introduced to the Pomoly Chalet 70 Pro through the YouTube channel TA Outdoors, where the channels host Mike demonstrated using it with a wood stove in his own woodland. For a long time I've been really interested in the idea of using a hot tent, to extend the camping season deep into the colder months, and I also like the idea of using the stove to cook whilst inside the shelter of the tent (especially when in poor weather conditions etc.). After seeing Mike's videos of the Pomoly I started to watch some others on YouTube using the tent, and I even found some up in Alaska which I think was a real testimony to the tent's ability to keep it's inhabitants warm and stand up to harsher weather conditions. So around January, I decided to buy my own and try it for myself, having borrowed a tent stove from a friend so that I could try out hot tenting!  When I bought the tent, I hoped that I would be able to take it out for some cold weather camping within the first...

 Campsite review: Byecross Farm Campsite Byecross Farm Campsite is a small, family run campsite, located on a picturesque farm near Preston - on - Wye, Hereford. There are many such campsites scattered across the width and breadth of the UK, but this one stands out... to me anyway! This campsite was the first that I ever visited without my family, when I was just 17 or 18 (I can't remember the exact date), and so it was the first trip where I actually had to pack all of my own gear and setup on my own. So then, looking back this trip could be described as a momentous occasion, although when I remove the rose tint from the memories, I can remember that it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows! Our party was a group of four, ranging from 17 to 24 in age, and we made the 40 mile journey divided between three vehicles - two heavily laden 125cc motorcycles, and an equally heavily laden 1960s Volkswagen Beetle. At the time, the location of the campsite as given by Google Maps wasn't q...