With four hands | For or against the campsite?

For some, he rhymes with relaxation, adventure and immersion in nature. However, For others, the case is rather masochism, the package of disorders and self-imposed discomfort. For example, For or against the campsite? However, Our columnists Philippe Mercure and Alexandre Pratt debate it.

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Philippe Mercure: four hands | against campsite? new What are you doing this summer, Alexandre? For example, For my part, I head for the small family on the Prince Edward Island. Moreover, four hands | against campsite? Therefore, new Meanwhile, Our destination: the Stanhope campsite, in the Prince Edward Island National Park. In addition, We settle down for ten days in what has four hands | against campsite? However, new all the appearance of a small paradise. However, with the four hands | against campsite? Moreover, beach a few minutes’ walk. Meanwhile, I can’t wait to unfold the tent. However. In addition. Consequently. Therefore, with the children who have become big who bicker to have the chance to assemble the posts and plant the stakes. Therefore, I can’t wait to blow the mattresses. Furthermore. For example. Moreover, unroll the sleeping bags. chase the remaining sand of Maine, the Gaspésie and the Rockies who still hang out in our four hands | against campsite? new business and which recall our previous summers. Nevertheless, In short, I can’t wait to completely change a lifestyle.

Alexandre Pratt: Very nice destination, Philippe! However, On our side, we four hands | against campsite? new will spend our holidays on the two banks of the St. However, Lawrence. Therefore, All these hours spared not to take care of the tent. Furthermore. Furthermore, posts and stakes, I can’t four hands | against campsite? new wait to go around the BIC. to stroll on the beach of Saint-Irénée or to paddle on the Malbaie river. four hands | against campsite? In addition, I can’t wait to come back in the evening to our accommodation with a real kitchen. Moreover. where I can cook the fish that I will have (maybe) caught without hitting half an hour of dishes. by hand under the storm after the fact. In addition, four hands | against campsite? new Do you really like to cook in camping? Similarly, I mean, for something other than fire on fire?

P.M. In addition, : We may come across, we stop in Kamouraska on the outward journey. Moreover, four hands | against campsite? new You will go to see us at the leaf campsite with your trout. Similarly, I take care of wrapping them in aluminum foil with salt. lemon and cook them on the embers of our campfire. With the little four hands | against campsite? new taste of smoke … You will give me news. And the storm you mention will recure the plates better than a dishwasher. In short, four hands | against campsite? yes, I love to cook in camping. My children were still talking about lobster pasta concocted on the Maine coast on a small stove. We had cooled the bottle of white directly four hands | against campsite? new in the Atlantic. I join a photo, well. Isn’t it more beautiful than a motel minifrigo?

A.P. : I admire your enthusiasm. I want to try my trout on your campfire. After. I am four hands | against campsite? new able to cook them with salt. lemon on a BBQ, with the immense satisfaction that neither my four hands | against campsite? sweater, nor my shorts, nor my stockings, nor my beard, nor my hair […] Do not feel the boucane all summer. four hands | against campsite? new And while my trout grill. I can also take a quick shower, start a buff and watch a baseball on TV. You can only go. Now. you who are both a big camper. scientist by training, tell me: is the campsite really good for the couple?

P.M. four hands | against campsite? new : Dozens of experiences on the ground confirm this: a couple who has already defeated a tent in the. rain can survive everything. Alexandre. Far be it from me to claim that everything is always perfectly feng shui in camping. I remember a stay in Vermont, with the children, where we no longer had any dry four hands | against campsite? new clothing. Or from Canada, in Charlevoix, who attacked our pok bowls as in the film by Alfred Hitchcock. But these four hands | against campsite? experiences make us stronger, in addition four hands | against campsite? new to constituting excellent material with epic stories. Not to mention that at $ 30 per night, campsite is an unbeatable economical solution. It leaves budget for other activities between lovers, which is good for the couple. CQFD, as they say after a scientific demonstration.

A.P. : For the price, I agree, it’s unbeatable. four hands | against campsite? new And it is true that the campsite is a source of epic stories. I can testify. I found myself in a flooded tent. Additionally, I slept under a high-voltage line from Hydro-Québec, which emitted an incessant noise preventing me from sleeping. Another time, mosquitoes have bitten our youngest so much that his eye was no longer open. Suuuuuuuuper. For the good of four hands | against campsite? new our couple, it was agreed that I never talk about baseball again after 10 p.m. and that we will four hands | against campsite? new never go camping again.

P.M. : Oh, sorry for your youngest! I could tell you about my worst stories of hotel rooms for hours. I will rather tell you about this campsite field in Pabos, in Gaspésie, installed two meters from the beach. Or this time. in the Rockies. where we removed the roof from the tent during the four hands | against campsite? new Perseids to contemplate a spectacular rain of shooting stars. lying on our mattresses. Epic, magical, choose your qualifier. This is what I like camping: to be able to insert in the great outdoors. in places where one could (nor want to!) Never see a hotel. If you ever feel the need to chat in baseball after 10 p.m., moreover, I’m still ready around a campfire. I do not four hands | against campsite? new promise to listen, even less to reply. four hands | against campsite? new I will look at the flames, half-closed eyes, in this unique spell that has changed human four hands | against campsite? nights for millennia.

A.P. : It’s beautiful, it’s beautiful. I bow. You convinced me. Long live the campsite! In addition, it reduces the pressure on the hotel offer in the region. So thanks to families like yours, we will pay less for our accommodation four hands | against campsite? new with a spectacular view of the river. Thank you, Philippe! We see each other around your campfire in Kamouraska. But I warn you: at the end of the evening. I will go back to sleep on a real mattress. under a real roof, in a room where I will have settled the temperature at exactly 19.5 degrees.