Ready for mushroom season?

Also a time for foodies while going glamping in the wild

In a few weeks our meadows and forests will start to be plenty of mushrooms.

While going glamping in the wild it is a good and healthy entertainment going to collect mushrooms.

One of the most exquisite ones is the scientifically known as Coprinus Comatus by its Latin name, but  this one is not easy to remember by non initiated people, so some other more common names have risen and this mushroom is also known as a shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig, or shaggy mane.

When you find some of them you shouldn’t let them there for longer or shouldn’t have them for long at kitchen without eating them. You should try to eat them on the collecting day unless you are preparing them canned, in such a case you should dry them before. But if you let your just
collected Coprinus for a day or two, as well as if you come to the next day to pick them up, you’ll be surprised by their fast transformation in a black ink. Yes, you read correctly, ink! In fact, nazis during World War II mixed the Comatus ink with normal ink in order avoid being fooled by enemies with counterfeits of German documents. If they found Coprinus’ spores in the document while examining the ink under the microscope then they could be sure that it was a real one and not a forged document.


So be ready to eat your lawyer’s wigs and enjoy an excellent dish, but if you are not an expert or you are not sure enough, be careful! some mushrooms can be dangerous because of the poison they contain. The best advice is: ONLY eat the mushroom you are confident enough on it, either because you have the required knowledge, or because it is served in a reputed restaurant or sold in a store you can trust.

Is it possible to swift from architechture to glamping?

The success story of two Colombian architects  

Claudia and Benjamín are two Colombian architects who decided to open a new business apart from their architecture studio and to start a glamping adventure.

In Guasca, Colombia they had a beautiful land with a scenic view and they want to diversify their profesional activity, so they decided to install there a glampsite.

As good architects, they made a nice design of the resort, they took time to choose the right tents and they found Ctents luxury glamping tents while looking for tents in internet. As they wanted to check them before buying and they wanted to optimize their investment, they asked for help to the brother of him who happen to live in Spain, Javier went to check the Ctents with his wife while keeping a video conference thanks to her smatphone. This option let them to know in deep about Ctents and realize that they were the tents they needed, waterproof, wide inside, luminous and robust, perfect for the rainy climate of Guasca.

They prepared the glampsite in a record period of time and chose a very atractive name “Maloca Glamping” - Maloca is the name of an ancient communal construction in Colombia used by natives -, when they had it ready they started to offer the booking through social networks and other means.

They hadn’t worked before as innkeepers so they had everything to learn about, but they did their best and they find that their ability to communicate and to make public reltionships was quite good.
Soon the guests started to book and their pleasent stays were soon spreaded through word of mouth.

After a year of hard work, they are happy as they have succeed with their touristic offer and they are planning to increase the number of malocas, as they call the lodging tents, and they are already working on the extesion of the glampsite.

Congratulations!

September equinox, time for glampig?

September Equinox: autumn equinox for some, spring equinox for others

The equinox is when day and night have the same duration in all the places on Earth.

Image: NASA

In the night between 23rd and 24th of September it has happened the september equinox, the time when the day and night have the same duration all over the earth, the same number of hours, 12, while in the North hemisphere the day length starts to shorten, the opposite happens in the South hemisphere.

Equinox means "equal night" in Latin, capturing the idea that daytime and nighttime are equal lengths everywhere on the planet.

This time in september is a great time to look at the stars from a glamping tent, have you ever thought about it and discovering all what can see above us? You can spend a night or part of it while experiencing the pleasure of discovering the different constellations that our ancestors named and those others that had received a name in recent times.

Are you game?

What makes a glamping tent really comfortable?

6 FEATURES THAT MAKES A GLAMPING TENT COMFORTABLE

Even if I liked a lot the little apartment where I used to live when I was still single and used to live alone, when I entered the big house of my friend Ricardo with his big garden and his wide living room I really felt better without any doubt. For me it is very clear that a wide interior is the first feature that makes a tent comfortable.

However, there was something that I really liked from my small apartment and it was the sunlight coming through the window, it made me feel comfortable, I consider this feature the second feature a glamping tent needs to be luminous.

When I go to a trip I like to stay in a comfortable lodging but even this is something essential for me it is not enough, I need to have a nice views to the oudside in order to really feel I am on holidays of course this should be the third feature of a glamping tent for me.

One thing that my apartment didn’t have was space enough to move around I was continually hitting the table, the fridge, any thing, becuase every time I moved there was something inthe middle of my path, maybe this is the reason I consider this the fourth feature a glamping tent must have.

When I was younger, I used to go camping and spite I liked it a lot I couldn’t stand not having space enough to stand fully upright, and this is a feature, the fith, that I really appreciate in a glamping tent for an adult not having to bow and being able as an adult to stand fully upright in most of its surface.

But what I hated most in a camping tent was when it rained, I tried several tents, but under the rain or after it all of them presented leakages and this is something can ruin your nice holidays at the wild so
I consider this sixth feature a must for a glampung tent to be waterproof.

At my camping times, it was common not to expect any comfort unless you were an Arab sheik in the desert or a king in ancient times. Even more, it was usually expected some kind of discomfort while you had to use the tent, but these days are being left behind. Nowadays the things have changed and most users expect some degree of comfort and some of them an extraordinary degree of comfort while spending holidays in a luxury glampsite, even on occasions better than what they can have at their own homes.

A really luxury glamping tent should have this six features to be consider us such.

Glamping reaches window displays!

In not much more than a decade glamping has traveled from connoisseurs' knowledge to shopping centers

Yesterday, while I was doing some shopping at a shopping center close to my home looking for some clothing I needed and promenading lazily after having finished to find what I needed when I was amazingly surprised by a window display where a detailed recreation of a glamping tent with a big bed inside and fully furnished complete with all the details you may need for having a comfortable stay.

The most relevant point for me was that is not just a window display of a medium sized local brand but. The display belongs to one of the most famous Spanish global fashion brands, with more than seven thousand shops distributed throughout ninety-six markets in the five continents and with shops in the main streets of the main cities of the world which has also diversified to home clothing small furniture ans home accessories.

For me there is only one meaning for the fact that glamping is arriving to window displays, particularly in an area, Majadahonda, and a country, Spain, where glamping is not a common choice for holidays although this kind of tourism is increasingly gaining a foothold , the meaning is not only that glamping has come to stay but that it is really a tourism tipology that, like a hungry bear would do, is going to take a big piece of the tourism cake.

That is good news for the glamping market as a whole and for the all the business involved in this market that is growing faster and faster with solid steps all around the world.

Is the summer really over?

Still time for glaping holidays

While the population at North Hemisphere is experiencing the days shortening, the heat  getting softer and the nights getting fresher, still there huge areas of our planet where either the summer is getting closer or is the natural state of climate as in the countries near the Equator, so for glamping lovers it is plenty of places to go on holidays. those who were not able to enjoy vacations during July or August have now the opportunity to travel to those sites where the summer still is waiting for us.

Be ready to find your site and don’t forget to be sure the glamping accomodation you choose has comfortable tents prepared for occasional inclement weather in order to enjoy a relaxing time as deserved without undesired inconviniences.

Travelling around in September guarantees you less populated tourist resorts where to enjoy     a pleasant stay.

What is easiness of use in a tent?

5 basic properties that makes a tent easy to use?

A tent can be used for several purposes, can be merely a temporary lodging at a campsite or in a free camping outing, a resting place in the middle of a race tour, a safari tour, a suite for the happy pair or their guest at a glamping wedding, a showroom during an event, a luxury tent for glamping purposes at a unique natural site, a place where replenish forces during a music festival, can be also used for professional teams while working in an emergency, military during an operation, sanitary personnel at a camp hospital, by refugees as temporary housing and so many other uses.

It doesn’t mind what purpose the tent is going to be used for, the vast majority of users expect that the tent has easiness of use, but, what this really means?

First of all, the tent should be easy to transport, with a size and weight of packages easily manageable at hand with the minimum amount of people as possible. But once the tent is in its place, this is not a major issue.

Second, the access into the tent and the way out of it is something easy, preferably it is not necessary to bow down in order to tresspass the door of the tent and it is possible to do it just walking.

Third, when closing the door either from inside or from outside the operation should be done easily and safely with a minimum effort and in a simple way.

Fourth, tent should be easy to maintain with the possibility of repairing any damage that the tent could have suffered on its fabrics, the possibility of incorporating spare parts if needed and the capacity of doing in a short sequence of basic and easy operations.

Fifth, tent should be easy to clean after the use in order to remove possible accumulations of mold, any spot, or just the marks of  dust after a rainfall.

Inexplicably, it is still very easy to find a huge variety of tents that have not been thought to comply this 5 basic properties that makes a tent easy to use.

A herd of zebras finally discovers where to drink water

Mobile safaris: a zebra's point of view of 

It is not always easy being a zebra, you have to travel long distances, sometimes during dry season you are not able to find any nourishment after many kilometers walking but this is not enough. It is also necessary to have some water and when the rivers and lakes dry you have to use your hoofs to scrabble the hard soil in order to find it.

Zebras drinking water by Beatriz Benítez Mateo-Sagasta

You shouldn’t be never alone though sometimes I’d prefer to, but keeping in large groups helps us to protect from predators, some friends of mine have gone to feed a herd of lions that was following us for three days, but if you are lucky enough not to fall into the jaws of one of them, then you can get the deserved prize.

Fortunately, this afternoon we found a pond where to drink some fresh water after an exhausting walking week, the herb on the savanna was mostly dry and it was not easy to find some fresh leaves, so we have had to settle for the bark of some acacia trees and, believe me, this is very hard to digest, so finally you need some water to deal with.

A group of tourists has been folowing us and other animals for the past three days on what they call “mobile safari”, a kind of tour in which they move fore several kilometers deep in the savanna and then, instead of coming back to the base camp, the staff goes before them in order to prepare a mobile safari camp and to have everything ready for dinner and night sleep. It seems they appreciate it a lot, every year we can see more and more tourist groups in mobile safari tours, must be something fun for them!

Kenya’s Masai Mara, maybe a paradise for tourists, but sometimes is not so easy place to live in for us the zebras, but I am happy to be again one of the survivals and I expect to be one of us for a very long life!

How about combining golf and glamping?

Enjoying a glamping wedding at a golf resort is something I recommend



Yesterday I was fortunate to be invited to a memorable wedding that was held at a nice golf course by the sea with a spectacular view to the mountains.

The originality of this wedding was given by the fact thar the ceremony and the wedding party were held inside a capacious glamping tent placed on the training court what I consider a very smart idea. By using the training area the golfcourse was preserverd from any damage, while the guests to the wedding could enjoy a nice time  in that wonderful surroundings, something very different from the more traditional and common experience of participating in a weeding held inside the golf club building,



The wedding celebrated inside the glamping tents is something completely different because of the feeling of closeness to nature while celebrating the wedding.

Thinking on the nice time we had there I realized the new possibilities that open for a golf court by taking advantage of the natural spaces availables in order to use them for celebrations like weddings or other kind of events, thanks to the use of big glamping tents that create a special environment, is all what you need to enjoy a relaxing experience and to recharge the batteries at the same time you create some new memories for your family book.

I will recommend to my family and friends holding their forthcoming celebrations in a site like this and to the organizers to select the right tents that incorporate suitable thermal isolation for the improve guests’ comfort.