Hello everyone from sunny France (at last), I've a general interest in bushcraft and the great outdoors, I'm a keen environmentalist and conservationist, spent many a wet weekend back in blighty repairing dry stone walls, digging ponds and managing woods, I moved to France a few years ago and now run a woodland campsite, so I'm fortunate in that I can walk out my front door straight into fantastic countryside.
Hello from France
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BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Hey Welcome mate!
Where are you? I'm an ex-pat in Calvados ... not literally, the dept not the drink.
Where are you? I'm an ex-pat in Calvados ... not literally, the dept not the drink.
Perrari
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Hi franglais and welcome, where are you in France? I would be interested in staying at your woodland campsite sometime if I am near to you. I guess from the fact that you get back to the UK often you must be in northern France? I am near Chamomix.
Thanks for the welcome everyone, we live in the Creuse department of Limousin in the middle of France, the Limousin is heavily forested with beef being the main agricultural use of land here, so the area is great for wildlife. There is an abundance of wild food here, sweet chestnuts, hazelnuts, wild strawberries and cherries are plentiful along with fungi in the autumn, parasols being our favourites, we make liquors from walnuts and chestnuts and wild fruits, our favourite is a green hazelnut liquor made with Irish whisky, False Acacia honey and vanilla, yum. I manage to get back to Britain once or twice a year to visit family, but the campsite and restoring the house keep me busy.
Oh, wow, we camped in limousin last year, I will have to look up the exact spot we stayed. We are heading that way again this year for more camping, the wilder the better. Is your campsite open to the public and if so do you have a website? Do you allow open fires? if so, I think you may have a new customer ...
Hi forager, yes we have a website (not sure if I can post it here) and we are open to the public, we are a tipi campsite, we have five tipis each in their own clearing, this means we have no more than twenty people at any one time, we only allow regular guests fires but there would be no problem for bushcrafters (we used to allow fires but had too many idiots who have never built a real fire in their life so now we say no to any new guests that ask) we have two fire pits in the main field which the guests can use, as I can supervise them. We are probably not what your looking for, but next year we will not be putting up the tipis until July, so anyone who wants to bring their own tents can in May, June and September, no problem with fires or bushcraft, lots of Hazel, Ash to hone skills on, I usually make around twenty-thirty hazel bows for the kids during the summer hols. Not sure how we are going to pitch the site to bushcrafters and wild campers, do bushcrafters mind sharing a wood with a few other campers or would they prefer to the site to themselves? If you still want the website address let me know if I can post it here, otherwise if you want I'll Pm it to you.
Bienvenue en BushcraftUK. I'd be interested in dropping in on you when en route between Oxfordshire and Pyrenees Oriental (66). How do you feel about an elderly couple in a campervan for a night or two?
Hi oldtimer, unfortunately the entrance to the campsite is quite steep and narrow and the car park is quite small, unless you have something like a VW camper in size getting in would be difficult, there is a lovely municipal in the next village with a lake, and you would be more than welcome to pop in for a cuppa and spend some time in the woods.
Nige
Nige
Thanks for that Franglais, yes, please PM me your website address. So I take it then that this year you are not accepting campers with their own tents, just people staying in your tipis and you will be gearing up for private tents next year?
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