A recommendation

I tend not to trust websites with names like "cheaptents.com", much as I often doubt - cynic that I am - the veracity of claims contained in unsolicited emails that someone can supply me with all-natural products that will "add innches to yourr pen1s!!!"

In the case of Cheap Tents, it was the site name that got me slightly edgy - it's a bit too good to be true, you'd imagine the scam artists would have blagged that name long before any genuine retailers got hold of it. I guess this theory applies more to drugs and porn than innocent activities like camping, but I was still a bit leery - and the somewhat rough design of the site didn't help either.

Anyway, I was after an MSR Microzoid tent for the times when the trail huts are full (or when I'm just feeling a bit macho/drunk) and these guys had one for sale at £110, so I ordered one up, my legendary tightness taking precedent over my equally excessive cautiousness.

And damn me but it turned up three days after ordering, and I even got an email from the store manager making sure everything had arrived as promised. The actual company behind the site is the Adventure Centre in Warrington, and I wholeheartedly recommend them.

Don't worry, the entries from New Zealand should be more interesting than this. God I hope so, anyway.