What we supply

 

Our camp kitchen is pretty well stocked with crockery, cutlery, utensils, kettle, pans etc. to cook simple meals and to barbecue, though if you have a favourite wok, knife or other cooking item it’s probably best to bring it. Note the kitchen has 2 hobs with a total of 6 cooking rings but no oven or microwave.

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• Children’s crockery & utensils

• Cafetiere and hob espresso maker

• Barbecue utensils

• Kadai firepit for outdoor cooking & fires; comes with cooking tripod, cooking bowl & swing grill – please read our fire safety instructions on arrival in your welcome folder

• All bedding (excluding travel cots) – please ensure if you wear fake tan it will not come off on our bedding as you will be charged for extra cleaning costs or a replacement as per our T&Cs

• Washing up liquid, sponges, brushes, cloths & tea towels

• Toilet rolls

• Your first basket of wood & kindling

• Starter amount of tea, coffee, sugar, hot chocolate & milk

• Board games/activities/small selection of books

• Two larder fridges

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Note: we do have a lot of baby equipment so please ask, before your stay, for our list of equipment

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What to bring

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• Slippers for inside the domes and Cwt ar y Bryn as domes and the hut have a no-outdoor shoes policy

• Shower flip flops; if you prefer to use them

• Torches for evenings as we are off-grid (not connected to main electricity, no plug points)

• Kitchen roll

• Extra tea, coffee and milk

• Canteen/water bottle (our water comes from our own spring & is UV filtered. This destroys 99.99% of harmful microorganisms without adding chemicals or changing the water’s taste or odour)

• Towels, including beach towels & an extra hand towel

• Mosquito spray (we can get midges in the evenings)

• Warm hats & sun hats (again, they help against midges though Tom doesn’t get bothered at all by them)

• Your favourite family games

• Bucket, spades & picnic blanket for the beach

• Sunscreen – contrary to popular belief, this part of Wales doesn’t rain that much more than other parts of Britain😊!

• Wellies – it can get a little muddy when wet

• Warm clothes for the evenings

• Bring a cool box & ice blocks if you’re planning on bringing lots of food that needs to be kept cool, as our 2 fridges may need to be shared between 3 families – you can re-freeze ice blocks in the ice box compartment in one of our fridges

• It may be handy to bring a box to store your pantry goods like bread, pasta, tins of beans etc.

• First aid kit

• Wipes or kitchen roll & spray to clean our full-sized travel loos if you’d like one in your accommodation – wipes not to be put down any loos

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Please let us know if you think we’ve forgotten something on our list.

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What you can purchase from us

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Further wood and kindling at a cost of £5 for a basket (our wood is either from our land or grown and bought from a small, sustainable, not for profit, workers co-operative 30 minutes away)

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Barbecue coals for £3.25 for 2kg / £6.50 for 4kg – prices can change depending upon where we source coals and firelighters

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If You Care 100% biomass Firelighters. Environmentally safe, they contain two ingredients only: FSC wood and non-GMO vegetable oil. 6 for £1.00

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You can buy wood, firelighters and kindling at Brynhoffnant garage store or in Tesco, B&M or Aldi (try and get dry hardwood if you can as it lasts longer)

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Local stores

Fresh eggs from our neighbours “Parc Carnedd” & “New Farm Capel Gwnda” just down the lane. Turn right out of our driveway, Parc Carnedd is the closest (and often has seasonal, home-grown veg), on the left with an egg box and sign outside and New Farm Capel Gwnda is further down, approx. 10 min walk, on the right

Mark Webb & Son local butcher, 5 min drive in Rhydlewis, SA44 5RG

Further good butchers:

Golwyg Y Mor in New Quay & Aberaeron (great steaks)

Tom Samways, Cardigan (good choice: nice steaks and burgers)

Brynhoffnant Stores, 5 min drive away – a well-stocked local store with a cashpoint. Stocks our local breweries’ beer Penlon, New Quay & Mantle, Cardigan

Tesco, Aldi & B&M is in Cardigan, 20 min

Sainsburys, Lampeter, 36 min

Organic fruit & veg: Glebelands Market Garden, St. Dogmaels Rd, Cardigan SA43 3BA (Open Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun 10am – 5.30pm / 3pm Sun)

Organic fresh baked bread: Bara Menyn Bake House & Crwst, Cardigan

Queen’s Bakery, Cardigan: good stock of local foods & gluten free/vegan bakes

Caws Cenarth Cheese, 25 mins SA37 0LH & Caws Tefi Cheese, 14 min SA44 5JY

For all things honey see http://www.wenallthive.wales/store Marion and her hives are a 5-minute drive away and if there’s anything you fancy we can order in for you