Getting back to basics with a camping holiday

Tipi Adventures in Wicklow is all about the great outdoors, teaching children about wilderness camping, catching fish and lighting campfires. Ailin Quinlan goes exploring

Imagine your kids lighting a campfire and cooking a meal on it before spending the night in a shelter they’ve constructed from branches and dry leaves.

It’s hard to imagine in a society where so many children live sedentary, centrally heated lives, their leisure time dominated by apps, online games, iPads, and smartphones within the four walls of their home — but what a relief to know there’s an alternative.