Where are our customers going? (Updated Feb 2012)
No, we are not losing customers! However some of them are planning great trips which we think will be interest to others. So we wanted to celebrate your plans and in some cases, support the charity based efforts you are undertaking and help in a small way raise some awareness.

 So we've started a page dedicated to our customers, their blogs or websites, so that when you are bored and want some inspiration, ideas and suggestions, you might find something here. (Great for a coffee break too!)

We have had a lot of feedback in recent weeks about the site and the podcasts, so we thought we would share them with you.

People from all over the world are wanting to find out more about going lightweight and where they can get products and information from.

Please contact us is there's something you are after. You never know, we might know someone who can help!

No 337 - Bob and Andy's Big Christmas Day Out - Part 2

This is the second part of our 'Christmas within Tent', where Andy and I complete the final course of a traditional three course meal which was cooked during a storm in the worst weather of the winter so far, near Crickhowell, Brecon in the heart of Wales in 2011.

Naturally an evening of fine dining wouldn't be complete without a wide ranging topic of discussion, and so we touch on manufacturing in the outdoors and various other related aspects of enjoyment and business in the UK outdoor industry.

We head to bed early, holding onto the tent pole for most of the night, until we rise to a much calmer almost balmy morning of fine Autumnal sunshine and, more importantly, no rain.

Breakfast is another real meal affair, and this time fresh, thick, juicy Pancakes are rustled up to set us up for the days walking ahead. Finally like all good days out, we complete our journey in a pub in Hay on Wye, and we all hear Andy agree to plan, prepare and cook something interesting, somewhere exciting, for our next big day out!

Stay tuned for that one!!

No 336 - Bob and Andy's Big Christmas Day Out - Part 1

Is it possible to cook a ‘real’ three course Christmas meal under a shelter, in a storm, in December, in Wales? Well the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’!

So how did this come about? Andy Howell, my friend and trusty part time contributor to the Podcasts called me a few weeks ago and said that we hadn’t had our promised Big Day Out trip during 2011 and it was about time we did something. Conversation flowed and looking back on it, ideas got expanded far too quickly. Before I knew it I had suggested that it was only right and proper that we should have our Christmas party, wild camping in Wales and cook a three course meal in the process.

Follow the full story and pictures on the website www.theoutdoorsstation.co.uk

No 335 - Cambodia on a shoestring - Part 2

This is part two of the Cambodia ‘backpacking on a shoestring’ trip where Beth and her friend Claire took 3 weeks to travel around Cambodia in the early part of 2011.

As they moved around on public transport, they had plenty of time on their hands and so recorded conversations with locals and other travelers on route.

Full of atmosphere and ideas which will make you think, that maybe something away from the package trip could be much more rewarding in the long term.