Good out of car camping sleeping bag

Advantages: Warm and good price
Disadvantages: Bulky and heavy

...I bought this as i needed a warm winter sleeping bag for some out of car camping and it is ideal. It is basically a duvet with a nylon outercoating. I am a very warm person and can often use the extreame guidence as my comfort zone regarding the temperature. Recently I was camping in the peak distict (middle of Novemeber) the temperature went down to -4c and I was as warm as toast. I have lent it to friends of mine who hs started to get cold at around freezing, which is probably a more realistic value for the bag. It is very comfortable inside, you cannot feel any seams or the zip, the hood fits nicely over you head without blocking your face and generally has a lot of room inside (im 6'1 and 16 stone). It has a nice soft feel inside and a general feeling of quality I do a lot of backpacking type camping all over the country in...

andyyaris 01.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Vango Nitestar 350 Sleeping Bag

Vango Venture 500

Advantages: Good Size, Brilliant Value, High Quality, Sturdy, Easy to Erect
Disadvantages: None that I can think of!

...I purchased my Vango Venture 500 towards the end of 2006. For the bargain price of £85.00 and I haven't looked back since! Numourus camping trips have bee happily spent in this tent and it will see many more! The frame consists of 2 large poles crossing over to make the main dome, and a 3rd smaller pole creating a loop for the porch area. Once erect, with all pegs and guide ropes in place the tent is extremely strong and stable. We have camped in strong winds and strong rain and it has stood strong throughout. As long as there are two of you, erecting the tent is a swift and easy process. Funnily enough you tend to erect it faster when its raining! And packing it back into the bag is an art the first time but you tend to remember how to do it from then onwards and it's easy enough. When packaged, the tent is relatively heavy...

PaulineLees 20.07.2007 (03.05.2008) · Read review
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Review of Vango Venture 500

Warm and snuggly in my nice sleeping bag

Advantages: Quality
Disadvantages: Expensive

...This sleeping bag has served me well for a long time. I have had it for a few years now and it isn't even showing signs of wear. Vango has not disappointed. Although it is relatively expensive you are paying for quality. I have trekked with this in my pack and it has left plenty of room for all the other essentials, such as tent, clothes, food, etc... This sleeping bag is definately a great buy. My only problem with it is that it did not keep me warm in the winter, but this was to be expected as it is not advertised to be all that effective in conditions below -10 degrees. I would recommend this to any serious camper/hiker for the spring/summer months. It is easy to pack down and compress in the bag given, with compression straps. Ends up in at a very manageable size, although not the smallest you can get. The price...

absurd_luck 21.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Vango - Ultralite 1100 sleeping bag

Vango's Erections

Advantages: Lightweight, spacious, well made
Disadvantages: fiddly to put up

...tents, which have the advantage of being easier to put up and are very durable and weather resistant. Without further hesitation we all piled into the MPV and headed off to Sheffield to explore ?CCC Outdoor Centre?s? display of tents. They have a wide range of tents set up on the 1st floor ranging from the Khyam self erecting tent to tiny one pole bivvy tents and quite a few in between. We browsed around checking for features that would suit our requirements; we looked at weight, quality of construction and sleeping arrangements. Eventually we settled on the Vango TBS Equinox 600, a hoop or tunnel design 3/4-season tent that sleeps 6 people (in theory). We figured that we might as well stick to Vango as we knew that their tents were reliable and the customer support is also good. Vango is actually an anagram of Govan, a Scottish...

sdwill 28.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of Vango TBS Equinox 600 Tunnel Tent

Vango Predator 450

Advantages: Warm, Extreme
Disadvantages: Size

...The Vango Predator 450 is a flagship synthetic bag packed with features to make this one of the best bags proving plenty of bang, for your buck. "The Predator range of sleeping bags is designed for use at the extreme limit. Available in mummy or square. Predators will be used by experienced campers, mountaineers and expedition members who will only use the highest performance sleeping bag suitable for the most hostile environments. Highly compressible Dupont Thermolite Extra is used in conjunction with Thermolite Micro for the ultimate warmth to weight ratio." As stated this bag is for use in slightly more 'wild' conditions, where some down bags would provide to much heat and most synthetic bags wouldnt provide enough. Although this bag has the disadvantage with most synthetic bags, the size, it does hold most of the properties...

chriscookson 04.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Vango 400 Predator

I was their sleeping beauty!

Advantages: Clean and tidy and very friendly.
Disadvantages: No restaurant.

...Around four months ago I travelled to London to do a photo shoot, I was very excited as I had been out of modelling for a while but I was also very nervous as I had not worked with the photographer before and was staying in a hotel I had never used before also. The shoot went very well and the hotel I stayed in was beautiful so all was good in the end. The hotel in question was the Sleeping Beauty Hotel; Ciao has called it the sleeping beauty motel but it was definitely hotel on the brochure, anyway never mind. The hotel is situated in Leyton which is in the East of London, so not a hotel you would be likely to use for a typical sightseeing holiday to London as you are well away from the attractions. Nearby the hotel is a KFC, a Wetherspoon`s bar, a Tesco store and a closed down Woolworths, so nothing too exciting but this was...

candy-pink 29.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sleeping Beauty Motel, London

A Good Nights Sleep

Advantages: Moulds easily to body shape, comfortable
Disadvantages: Bit bulky

...Although pregnancy is a wonderful experience, it?s not always the most comfortable. Finding a comfortable position to sleep can be difficult, especially in the final months, even if you don?t have any additional problems. And if you do suffer from a problem such as Symphis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD) then it?s almost impossible to sleep without suffering from severe pain. This is where the Mothercare Sleep Body Pillow comes into it?s own. The size of the box the Sleep Pillow is vacuum packed in totally belies the actual size of the pillow. I was a little shocked when my partner brought it home, it was hard to believe that such a large product could be so easily carried back from the shop. On opening the box it was easy enough to open up the plastic packaging (using a pair of scissors) and the pillow ?re-inflated? almost immediately...

sandemp 16.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mothercare Sleep Body Pillow

Sleeping with ghosts...

Advantages: if you like the old Placebo, get this too
Disadvantages: none really.

...Placebo - 'Sleeping With Ghosts' This has been hiding in my collection for sometime and to be honest before now I'd never given it a proper listen to. Well apart from skipping to 'The Bitter end' and a couple of others. Well...WOW ! 'Bulletproof Cupid' first on the play starts slow like your more classic placebo stuff then with a drum beat that kicks in the rest, music. Guitar drums sounds - an amazing track that has no words - unless I missed them?- just a rocking good tune showing off the talent of the music behind Moloko. English Summer Rain' by contrast begins sounding like a dance remix track to me - does improve though. When the guitar jumps in. If listening through headphones sounds way better as it skips from ear to ear right through your head.. "...I'm in the basement baby, your in the sky...I'm in the basement baby...

The-ex-Raven 12.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sleeping With Ghosts - Placebo

Grobag baby sleeping bags are fantastic!

Advantages: easy to use, helpful, fantastic ranges
Disadvantages: may look a little like a dress on boys!

...The grobag is a fantastic invention which stops the constant getting up and down in the night to put the blankets back over your baby when they manage to kick them off in the night. Grobags are baby sleeping bags which fasten at the shoulders and are worn almost like a dress/dungarees. They come in different thickness- Tog rating- like a quilt. So you are able to decide which tog rating is needed, for example, in the summer when it's warm you will only need a 1tog or if it's colder you may need a 3tog. They come in different patterns and designs so you may chose whether you want a girlie pink one or a boy blue one etc. The main purpose of these grobags is to stop the baby from getting cold during the night as they may do with a blanket. Babies do not sleep soundly constantly, they do toss and turn and are able to shift themselves...

lorriellah 10.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Grobag Sleeping Bag

The Big Sleep

Advantages: (+) outstanding read (+) excellent and creative/unique plot (+) addictive
Disadvantages: (-) extremely confusing and difficult to keep track of (and to summarise in the review!)

.... BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Big Sleep is a novel first published in 1939, followed by a couple of film versions - one in 1945 and the second in 1978. This is actually the first Chandler novel to feature Philip Marlowe, the famous detective. This particular novel is notoriously cokmplex and difficult to follow though has been named as Chandler's best works. Not solely this, it was also awarded the TIME magazine award for Best 100 novels 1923-2005. The novel begins in mid-October. Philip Marlowe is hired by the old, ailing General Sternwood to help him "take care of" Arthur Gwynn Geiger. Geiger is a homosexual (has been considered to be bisexual) pornographer who has been blackmailing the General with potentially scandalous pictures of the General's daughter, Carmen Sternwood. Marlowe agrees to help. This first task becomes...

vcarina88x 12.01.2009 (11.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler