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Glamping Holiday Bargain
We do want as many people as possible to take a glamping holiday at the Dome Garden and, like any Garden, make it flourish! So the other week we hid three bargain deals around the website for the best glamping holiday bargain ever. The result was the busiest January we’ve ever had! So, well done…
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Washes Whiter ? Crisp White Bed Linen
I never thought we’d be getting excited about laundry, but we do have a bit of a thing about Crisp White Bed Linen. There is simply nothing else like it. Climbing into acres of white loveliness at the end of a busy day racing around in the forest – aah. However, at the end of…
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Wot? No “Frills Package” for The DG
Frills packages Every year, we review what we offer at the Dome Garden and how much we charge. We then compare it to others in the Glamping fraternity. Various people in the media have been kind enough to call us the ‘UK’s top Glamping site’. So we want to make sure it’s justified. But last…
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Money Money Money – a Glamping bargain
We wouldn’t ever describe ourselves as cheap – who would? But we do want as many people to come glamping at the Dome Garden as possible and, like any Garden, make it flourish! So this week we’ve hidden three bargain deals around the website. Find them and quote the purposefully embarrassing lines at us (don’t…
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Autumn Glamping Anyone?
Autumn Glamping? I should coco! There can be few places in England as amazing as the Forest of Dean in Autumn. The Forest literally explodes in a thousand colours – a sort of three week slow-motion firework display with sweeping arcs of multi-coloured bursts lining the main roads and the forest trails. It’s about to…
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Chickens! Hypocrites!
There can be no other more pampered chickens than ours. For much of the year they are spoilt rotten, wandering the site at will, hunting for grubs and morsels and being cooed over and by children who every week adopt a different one and stuff it with scraps stolen from their kitchen tables. It gets…
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Butterflies go glamping too
Do butterflies go glamping ?! It’s funny, I was in a service station the other day and there was a ‘BEE CAUSE’ notice on the wall. It claimed that just by scattering their free pack of seeds you could produce you lots of wild flowers and help bees find refuge in your back garden. Nice…
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Severn Bore- ing??
How often have you looked out of the car window and been struck completely dumb?? It doesn’t happen very often, but yesterday, well, words failed me. I drive over the Severn bridge a couple of times a week, en route for the Dome Garden. It’s a great bridge and fills me with a feeling of…
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Carfest crazy
Oh Hi guys!! Hope you have had a fantastic time at CARFEST and well done for scanning the QR code to bring you here – the UKs top glamping facility! When the Chris Evans’ lovely team searched us out to feature in the guide they told us all about you. So, we know who you…
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Glamping’s hottest new gadget!
Glamping Gadget Now here’s a Glamping gadget to get a bit hot under the collar about! (No, boys. Calm down. Not her.) And if nothing else just goes to show that recycling isn’t just about tins and plastic bottles. As every ex tv producer or journalist knows its about digging up the same old stories…
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Wild Boar has his chips!
If you’re really lucky you may just catch sight of wild boar roaming the woods of The Forest of Dean. (Slightly different of course from those you might come across in your local pub!!!) Beautiful majestic things they are – and at this time of year almost always accompanied by gangs of tiny little boars.…
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Glamping delight – bathing under the sky
A slam dunk I think the Americans would call it. Glamping and Bathing in hot tubs. Boom! Why didn’t we see it before? It was all in aid of our Zubrowska event last week when three stunning wood burning hot tubs appeared as if by magic in the middle of the garden accompanied by the…
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Wild Boar has his chips
If you’re really lucky you may just catch sight of wild boar roaming the woods of The Forest of Dean. Beautiful majestic things they are – and at this time of year almost always accompanied by gangs of tiny little boars. (much nicer, of course, than the whinging older variety you might encounter in your…
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foraging at its finest!
It is always amazing to us what you can find to eat within yards of where you live. It’s called foraging and it’s all about digging around in the undergrowth to find tasty free food!. Last week we had the wonderful Liz Knight – champion forager – to help guide us and a merry band…
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What a day.
We have always played around and made small changes to the website as we have gone along. But today we did more than just tinker with it. With great trepidation we unplugged our faithful old site and watched as it was cast adrift into cyberspace, to be replaced by our spanky new site with bells,…
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One latte at a time
There it was. Bold as brass. Costa Coffee. Saving the World From Mediocre Coffee. One Latte At A Time. “NO!” I shouted, as the truck turned left and I hit the red light. They had it wrong. It’s us who are saving the world. But we’re saving it from mediocre pizza. And, yes, like…
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I love Dome Garden
I don’t think we’ll ever finish the Dome Garden. There will always be something to do to change to move about or reorganise or improve. This was always about two things. The clue’s in the title. Dome. Garden. After so much time lavished on the first part it’s a relief to spend time on the…
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Oh… Er… Ah!
A couple of years ago a very nice guest came marching up to me. “I don’t know what you’re doing here! ” he said rather pointedly. “Oh” I retorted. Unable to think of any other response.” How do you mean?” “Well, we’ve stayed in some of the best hotels in the world and the reason…
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Where does Glamping end?
What an interesting chat we had this weekend. It was about where you draw the line with this glamping malarky between camping and hotels. We’ve said it a million times. This is not a hotel but it is quite boutique. Nor is it a campsite but there’s a lot of camping in it. And you…
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Cool Times and Sunday Camping ?*!@?
This is nice. The Sunday Times got together with Cool Camping’s Jonathan Knight – who knows a thing or two about camping – to list the top luxury camping site in the country. How brilliant that they chose us. Thanks Guys!
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Super super terrace
What a great week we’ve just had. Over winter the Dome Garden is much quiter. A few guests pottering about in the snow, chopping wood and stopping for a chat before scurrying back to their domes. And in the corner fuelled entirely by cups of hot Ribena, a little band of us quietly rebuilding the…
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Mountain biking Iphone stylee…
Now, this is a bit handy. The Strava app. keeps track of your progress and where you are. It works on iPhones and android thingeys and it even shows you where others have been before. The best bit – well, if you’re a tad competitive – is that you can race against the prvevious riders.…
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How to build a Dome Garden
Easy. Just buy a rather uninspiring house with a rubbish garden, fiddle about with it for a bit and then just pop in a few guests, et Voila!! Rumours abound that it was a mud bath for six months, filled with pain and suffering and misery. But such claims would be wildly exaggerated… We wish!!
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Winter in The Dome Garden
It’s not the same at the Dome Garden in winter. It’s a lot quieter for a start. Especially as, over the winter of 2012/13, we will only have 2 or possibly three domes open. There’s less enthusisaim for dinner on the deck too. And the chickens have resolutely packed their bags and marched off for…
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Luxury Camping
We had some Dutch guests this summer. Lovely, they were. Erudite and charming, as are so many of our guests. One day one of them asked “Do you have many Dutch guests?” “Only a few” I said. “Hmm, that doesn’t surprise me” he said. “The Dutch wouldn’t understand this.” “What’s not to understand” I asked.…
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Easter Holiday Glamping Breaks
Ok. So, last year it was balmy. This year a bit snowy! (actually this picture was taken in December, but we like it, and it was pretty toasty inside…!!) ! By the law of averages therefore, Easter 2013 should be, well… either! As Apple would say “not exactly a law then, more of a guideline!”…
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Eggs Benedict
Well, it’s all very well talking about Eggs Benedict but it now seems remiss to have missed out a picture of the said delicacy… The only question is, should it have been to show the poached egg in its entirety or with the egg broken open? Oooh decisions decisions… Actually there is another question. How…
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Kill Chicken 1
Just sitting here in the sun thinking how delicious Eggs Benedict is – or are. Mainly because our new Sussex hens have just started laying and producing the most perfect eggs I have ever seen – or now tasted. The gardeners thought the eggs were so pretty we should have them framed! So, on the subject of chickens……
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Kill Chicken II
The story continues a few months later. A 50-60 year old man comes up to the lodge as we’re about to feed the chickens. “Could I do that?” he asks. “Of course” I say, handing him the bowl of feed. Ten minutes later he hasn’t returned so I take a gentle stroll along the path…
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Dome Garden Garden
Does it do what it says on the tin? That’s a question we keep asking ourselves. On one hand you’ve got The Domes. On the other, there’s The Garden. Last year we did lots of work on The Former, so this year it seemed only fair to turn our attention to The Latter… Now, it’s…
