Camping where the foxes say goodnight

- The booking system CANNOT set up more than one tent per reservation, however, it is possible to place a different number of tents on the property. For this reason, please contact me in advance using the "enquiries" form and let me know how many tents you wish to pitch.- The direct entrance to the site is blocked by concrete bollards for the time being. Parking is available across the grassy strip of the driveway. The driveway continues on and it is possible to access the property from multiple locations. Depending on interest, I can also make the site available for caravans and motorhomes.- The size of the central paved grassed camping area is 15x20m. Additional sites can be found throughout the property at will, without campers interfering with each other. There is plenty of space for camping, the whole plot is 7000 m². Years ago, the scouts camped here several times. In order to limit mutual disturbance, the optimal number of reservations for the whole plot is one, no matter if it is one or 20 tents of one big group of campers. The tents can be spread out in several partially separated locations on the property. Sleeping in the open is explicitly at your own risk due to wildlife, but well worth it. Cars can be parked along the entire property on the secluded side of the driveway, which is wide enough - The property is not fenced and therefore freely accessible to wildlife from the wider area. Foxes and badgers live here permanently and the land forms their habitat. Please keep calm in any encounter with wildlife, do not provoke their defensive reflexes and give them sufficient space to escape. Game is shy and usually knows about us long in advance. However, it may not notice us until the last minute. Then it gets frightened and attacks in self-defence. This is the result of being too quiet and inconspicuous. Therefore, when staying in your own interest, make a reasonable noise - laugh, sniff, clear your throat, sneeze, sing, stomp to the beat, have fun and clap your hands, letting everyone know that you are there and "the wiser ones will retreat". You don't win a fight with a deer or a badger just like that, if at all. You can tell the proximity of game by the sound it makes. Deer bleat, foxes bark, badgers grunt, pigs snort. Foxes and badgers are carnivores, the badger even our largest weasel-like beast, weighing up to 20 kg. As well as safety, hygiene must not be underestimated as game can become infected.- The dry toilet is located at the north-west corner of the central camp. It is not a conventional latrine, but a metal barrel buried in the ground with a conventional toilet seat and a folding screen with a small canopy. This toilet definitely does not include anything non-degradable and no waste, especially not food scraps, wet wipes, diapers, pads, tampons, condoms, etc. The collected contents are composted as required. Grey and green water can be poured down the toilet, preferably with a minimum of chemicals. Please always clean up after yourself before you leave and cover the lid with the screen.- Please store all waste carefully in closed containers and take it all with you, do not bury anything anywhere - it will be dug up by animals and spread around. It is best to hang your waste up overnight so that the animals do not spread it around.- There is no electricity or water on the property. However, the Srpina River flows under the property, and I recommend taking water from it about 1 km upstream.- In the western part of the camping site there is a rocket stove for cooking food. Only dry branches and twigs from the clearings (there are plenty of them in the surroundings) and rakes from around the campsite are used as fuel. It is forbidden to break trees and bushes! The stove works by first starting a fire in the fire pit with a piece of paper and small twigs with a small amount of rake. DO NOT use any chemicals, kindling, or plastic to get the fire going!!! Once melted, add branches and sticks with a strong forward motion. It is not necessary to break them into smaller sticks, just let them pass through the fireplace entrance hole. Push the protruding branches in gradually as necessary until they reach the fireplace stop. This also regulates the intensity of the burn. To extinguish, simply lift the inserted branches a little so that the burning parts still remain in the firebox. The fire will gradually diminish itself quite quickly until it goes out. Do not use any extinguishing agents (water or earth) to speed up the extinguishing, as this will damage the stove and scald you. Of course, in the event of an uncontrollable fire, throw whatever you have on hand. Do not sweep or clean the stove before or after use. Leave that to us. - There is no other fireplace here and it is not allowed to build one. Due to the drought, it is also necessary to check that there is no open fire in this area. To be on the safe side, it is advisable to report burning on the property via the registration on the Fire Brigade website. You may use your own barbecue provided that you only throw the ashes and embers into the firebox of the stove afterwards. As the stove is used to grill food, it is permanently forbidden to use any chemicals for melting, burn any waste, plastics, etc. During and for some time after the stove has been burning, the surroundings must be monitored at least within a radius of 20 metres to see if any sparks have been caused. Don't underestimate this, I myself have witnessed the inside of the crown of a dry cherry tree 15 metres from the fireplace catching fire.- Restrictions for pets - foxes and badgers are among the permanent residents of the property. Foxes inhabit the cellars in the south-western part of the allotment. Badgers inhabit the castle on the north-west slope. Foxes can occasionally be seen during the day, otherwise mainly at night. Badgers are easiest to see about an hour after sunset and are most active at night at new moon (invisible moon, dark night). Badger Castle currently has 16 setts (burrows) and the ones in the middle of the north slope are currently in active use. It is therefore advisable to keep all dogs under control at all times and not allow them to run into the labyrinth of the castle. There is a risk of them being choked by badgers. Furthermore, the west part of the garden is being drawn high from the surrounding area. Wild boar are found in the more distant surroundings, but no sign of them has been seen in the garden. Rabbits are common throughout the garden and pheasants are found here and there. Ticks, of course, as everywhere else. Mosquitoes are rare, sometimes there are more mosquitoes. On the secluded south-western part of the property are the cellars of a demolished building, now inhabited by foxes. There is also an unsecured former well which is yet to be resealed and capped. These two hazardous areas are bounded by warning tape for the time being.

Arrival from: 13:00
Departure until: 12:00
Can I come anytime?

pets allowed Rules for stays with dogs

campfire not allowed

own grill allowed

parties and noise prohibited, please keep quiet also during the day More info