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Hey everyone, and welcome back 
to another episode of the 

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Understandable English Podcast. 
My name is Oliver and today we 

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are going to be talking about 
camping. 

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So what is camping? 
And I am going to be talking 

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about a recent camping trip that
I took with my friends. 

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OK, the official definition of 
camping is a holiday that is 

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spent in a tent, but it can be 
one or two nights. 

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It can be a small trip and maybe
include hiking, but in general 

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it is staying somewhere in a 
tent, often in nature or in the 

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wild, or even at a campsite. 
So a place designed for camping.

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And in case you don't know the 
word in English, a tent is 

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something that you build and it 
has fabric or cloth and you 

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sleep inside of it. 
When I was a teenager I did 

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quite a bit of camping, so I 
went camping I quite a few times

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with both friends and family and
I loved it. 

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I did really enjoy it. 
There is a lot of satisfaction 

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and enjoyment from building the 
tent, making a place to stay, 

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cooking some food, and enjoying 
nature and time with friends or 

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family. 
So today I'm going to talk a bit

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about a recent camping trip. 
I've actually made an easy 

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English vlog about this trip on 
my YouTube channel. 

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I will leave the link below. 
So after you listen to this 

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podcast you can watch the video 
and see exactly what I was 

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talking about and see the place 
I was and what we did. 

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A few weeks ago it was one of 
our friends birthdays and they 

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decided that they wanted to go 
camping for their birthday. 

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So we all got our stuff ready, 
our tents and supplies. 

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To be honest it had been a long 
time since we went camping or 

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since I have been camping and my
wife kid had never really been 

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camping properly before, only 
one time which was on a kind of 

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organized trip. 
So we had to try and find all of

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the stuff that we needed. 
Some of the items that we needed

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included a tent, a cooker, so a 
gas cooker, something to make 

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the food on. 
We had to gather all of the food

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and supplies that we needed as 
well, and I brought a cooling 

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box. 
This is a box or a container. 

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We call it a cooler to keep the 
food cold and to stop it from 

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going bad For sleeping we 
brought sleeping bags. 

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These are like almost like 
blanket bags that you get into 

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at night to sleep. 
I'm sure you have used these 

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before but in English we call 
them sleeping bags. 

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They keep you nice and warm and 
of course we brought a lot of 

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blankets to and pillows. 
So for this trip we weren't 

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exactly going into the wild. 
We were going to a campsite, a 

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place for camping and it was on 
the North Coast, so in the very 

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north of Ireland of Northern 
Ireland. 

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It is quite windy there at times
and it is close to the seaside. 

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The benefit of this is that we 
were bringing the car, so there 

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was plenty of space to bring 
items. 

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We didn't have to carry them in 
big backpacks because of this. 

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We also brought some air beds or
air mattresses which I could 

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inflate so to put air into them 
from the car and it made 

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sleeping a little bit more 
comfortable. 

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OK, so we've gathered all of our
items for camping. 

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We've got light food, tent, 
sleeping stuff like sleeping 

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bags, air beds and everything 
that we need and we set off. 

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So we left in the car. 
The weather at home seemed 

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really nice but as we drove 
towards the campsite it began to

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look more cloudy and like it was
going to rain. 

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And it did start to rain a few 
times and I thought great, this 

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is going to be a wet weekend and
quite a difficult weekend to 

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enjoy the outdoors. 
When we arrived to the campsite 

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we were the first people there 
from our friends and we decided 

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to start setting up our tent 
because it is quite a big tent 

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and I haven't set it up in 
years, so I had to try to 

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remember how to do it. 
It took us probably about 90 

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minutes to set up. 
It was quite a task and during 

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the time it began to rain very 
heavily and we had to stop 

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building our tent and take a 
break and hide in the car. 

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But eventually we got the tent 
up and some random strangers, 

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people that we don't know, also 
helped us to set it up. 

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They were very kind and then 
once our friends arrived I was 

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able to help them set up the 
tents or their tents as well. 

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The weather cleared up and 
became a bit nicer which allowed

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us to enjoy being outdoors more.
We began to set up for cooking 

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and for dinner we decided to 
have steaks, so BBQ steaks. 

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So we prepared the barbecue and 
started the fire and got the 

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steaks ready. 
They took quite a while to cook 

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but they were so tasty and very 
worth it. 

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We had mushrooms as well which 
we barbecued on the fire and 

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halloumi cheese which is very 
nice and then afterwards we had 

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burgers as well. 
I I had so much food and I felt 

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quite sleepy afterwards because 
I had eaten so much stuff. 

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But we were able to enjoy 
sitting outdoors eating our food

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and having great times together 
listening to music and talking. 

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It was a really nice evening. 
It got a lot colder at night 

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once it was dark and quite windy
as well. 

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But the nice part about the 
darkness was we could really see

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the stars, they were so clear at
night time. 

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So I enjoyed looking up at the 
sky and seeing the stars very 

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clear. 
But it was time for bed. 

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We went and got some sleep, but 
I didn't sleep very well because

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it was quite noisy during the 
night. 

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Tents are not very good at 
keeping noise out, so of course 

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I could hear everything. 
So people talking and dogs 

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barking, babies crying, all the 
noise from around the campsite 

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and in the morning some terrible
weather started. 

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It was so windy and rainy. 
It felt like a storm or a 

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hurricane. 
It was intense. 

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The weather was so bad that we 
actually couldn't cook breakfast

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outside. 
So we got in the cars and we 

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drove to the restaurant and we 
had our breakfast indoors, which

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was tasty, and after that we 
tried to take down our tents and

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pack everything up. 
It was so wet and I got soaked 

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with water. 
My clothes were wet, my hair was

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wet and afterwards I just 
couldn't wait to get home to 

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have a shower and a warm drink 
and just relax. 

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But overall, it was still a 
really great trip and we had 

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such a good time. 
But let me know if you like 

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camping and have you went on 
many camping trips? 

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So leave a comment below and let
me know. 

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And make sure to check out the 
YouTube video of camping so the 

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easy English vlog that I will 
leave in the description below. 

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Thank you for listening and have
a great day. 

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Goodbye.