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Canvas and Campfires - a Wheelchair Accessible Camping Experience

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  Sheep and pig visit our tent! Camping is something we had considered over the years and we had checked out a few camping shops along the way, to see how camping may work with Miss S as a wheelchair user. It isn't an absolutely impossible task to try traditional camping but there are so many considerations and practicalities that ultimately, each time we’ve discussed it, looked in to it a little more, we’ve not gone any further along. For instance, it would need to be the right tent, one Miss S could physically get in to in her chair, one big enough to stand up in so we can transfer her and have enough space for Miss S get around and that’s before we start to think about what she’d sleep on, how we can get her comfortable enough, warm enough, etc. With so many considerations we just didn’t get round to looking at traditional camping any further.  We first came across Canvas and Campfires after reading about the visit fellow blogger Simply Emma had, around the time Canvas and Campf