We do that on all holidays abroad (remember those). Have also do it the other way around when camping and paid for the first night but rocked up first thing the following morning. Can remember going to polmanter a few years back and the looks we got as we checked in and drove to our pitch while they were all waiting to be let on were priceless
You might be right. Our plan this and last year was to avoid the big sites and go for a hard-standing to get a defined pitch and be away from tents. However, we made a point this year of avoiding the club sites because of the risk of last minute closures due to Covid. This approach seems to be working so far.
Best way to avoid random company is to stand up as they approach and specifically and loudly point out the empty seat and ask them to sit next to you.
…or tap the empty seat with the palm of your hand and smile creepily at them.
Yeah, but there's always the risk of them saying 'yes please, I'm a Jehovah's Witness and would love to debate your viewpoint for the next 6 hours...'
36D is the safest bet for 3 seats and a good sleep.
I agree. Dogs pissing up your wheels and the owners explaining that it's alright it won't bite you...he'll want to bite me when I stick my foot up its ass.I know I will probably offend some, but its not just the kids; dogs can be just as bad!
We book small family sites/farms, adult only whenever possible (or unless we have the grandkids with us). Unfortunately some of the people with dogs are just as bad as the ones with feral kids! Its not "funny" then rover barks every time someone goes past; its bloody annoying. And then its sets of the chain reaction with all the other dogs.
And dont get me started on people in tents who think they are in their solid wall home. No, the walls arent made of brick; they are made of tissue paper. Yes we can hear your TV/music.
Any of this is okay in small doses and when people are aware and considerate; just having a nice time. Unfrotunately thats not the world we live in anymore. No-one gives a hoot about their neighbours when camping. Me me me.
Roll on September in France
Grump over.
And there’s the rub, you get Regional Tourist Boards & Development Agencies dreaming up these grand schemes to revive the “local economy”, but don’t invest in the infrastructure to make it work. They then complain when, god forbid, people actually go there. We need to get with the program and adopt the European attitude to campers/motor homes. Accommodate them, provide facilities, charge a fair price & everyone’s happy.Horrified locals blast tourists for clogging up Scotland's 'Route 66'
Locals slammed visitors for ruining the scenic 516-mile route from Inverness to the Kyle of Lochalsh while they are on staycation.www.dailymail.co.uk
I’ve noticed a trend for people with shiny new SUVs to drive them offroad onto a grassy mound or even a shallow rock to get some ‘impressive’ photos of their pride and joy.Dartmoor National Park could ban camping due to anti-social behaviour
Dartmoor National Park bosses have pointed to an increase in attacks on wildlife by dogs off their leads and poor behaviour by wild campers at popular beauty spots such as Bellever
I had to Google “dinlo”!!!There was better behaviour at Busfest then some of the campsites we’ve been to this year. Although there were a few ‘pitch cutters’ who got told to fro and walk around the outside of the Forum pitch and not through the middle of it. One dinlo appeared from between the rear of my van and the front of my neighbours, I said to him ‘what you up to sneaking about between people’s vans mate?’, I then told him my dog doesn’t like strangers appearing out of nowhere and would bite.
He didn’t need to know my dog was 200 miles away
Google said it is a Romany thing!It’s a Dorset thing, I’ve got a limited vocabulary and this word gets used the most, usually preceded by something rhyming with duck.
