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Essential festive gift guide

Essential festive gift guide

Over the moon to have our Signature Family PACMAT featured in Your Essential Festive Gift Guide alongside Kate Space, Poppy Treffry and Sophie Conran amongst other lovely gifts under £40 for the outdoorsy types. See page 88, December issue, yourhomestyle.uk on sale now. Thank you Sarah Trevor, Your Home Style.

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Italian picnic walk

Italian picnic walk

Enjoying their time together, (before the rest of the family arrived), Basil and Guy went for a 20km jaunt up from the small commune of La Palud where the old Funivie Monte Bianco station used to be just outside Courmeyeur. They worked their way up steep winding paths to join the TMB and joined the trail in peak season. Not so busy they couldn’t keep a nice distance from other travellers they followed the path to the Refugio Bonatti, stopping for a picnic lunch on a small grassy knoll with spectacular views views of Mont Blanc and the Grande Jorrasses.    As they came...

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Wild camp with Basil

Wild camp with Basil

Arriving a week before the rest of the family arrived to have some quiet time in the mountains whilst working from home. Guy and Basil (our dog) thought they'd make the most of the weekend.Guy packed a bag. Supplies for one night for him and Basil, his Alpkit Ordos 3 tent, sleeping bag and a PACMAT Solo for basil, only 200g and barely taking any space in the bag, it proved invaluable.Parking at Notre Dame de la Gorge, they walked up the valley. After a brief thunderstorm, while they sheltered in the boulders below the Col du Bonhomme, they pitched tent...

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A birthday picnic walk in Sussex

A birthday picnic walk in Sussex

We arrived in the lovely village of Firle, parked up and went to the wonderful village store for picnic supplies. Walking up through the village from here we passed a fabulous wild flower verge. Taking a footpath running alongside the wheat field. From here we could see the hill we were heading for, hoping to have our picnic up on the top.  With each step we got a better look back at the view behind us, stretching for miles. Basil had a stop to take it all in. As we reached the top, the wind gusted over from the sea....

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Lunch out, out

Lunch out, out

The weather here in East London has been wonderful this week. Not too hot, no rain and with a gentle breeze. We thought we'd make the most of it and head out to the park for lunch. It's always great to get away from the desk and outside for a break during the working day. A couple of PACMATs and a bottle of water in the bag, we headed down to pick up a (massive) sandwich on the way from Bread & Truffle and then went on to London Fields to find a suitable spot to picnic.  Basil always like to stay close...

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