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Going camping (in tents or less often huts) with the Scouts / Guides used to be a relatively common childhood experience in the UK, and some schools went Youth Hostelling or to outdoor centres for loosely geography/biology field study trips. But we didn't have US style summer camps, and specialised summer schools for formal study were uncommon. We also had a lot of language student exchange trips with Europe usually organised by schools.