Ausgold
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Hi All,
I have just joined your very informative forum. My wife and I are retired school bus operators and ex-farmers. In Australia we travel a lot in our 4WD and caravan to remote outback locations prospecting for gold with specialist metal detectors. We also enjoy hunting for coins and treasures in more "civilized" locations with our other detecting machines.
At the moment we are researching the idea of flying to the UK in 2025 and buying a used motorhome. We would then spend about 6 months visiting your lands and metal detecting along the way.
In Australia we are well catered for when travelling, with many rural council areas being "RV Friendly", offering free water filling points, grey and black water dump points and increasingly even free overnight or 48 hour camping sites, sometimes even with free hot water showers. Small rural towns NEED the revenue that tourists can bring into them and the local businesses and councils recognize that they can attract people to stop and detour into their towns by offering such free camping options.
On major State and National Highways there are also free camping and rest areas as authorities realize that Fatigue is a major contributing factor in serious road crashes (It's now called one of The Fatal Five). We are encouraged to stop and take a break every 2 hours and to sleep in our beds rather than behind the steering wheel.
We have joined your Forum to educate ourselves on the UK system and explore possibilities for our trip. I do have a question or 2 already if I may?
I have been looking at the Location App and surfing around the landscape looking at places and facilities. In the map legend there are red icons for Aires Chargeable (AC) and Aires Free (AF). Looking on the entire map of GB I have found a few AC and zero AF. Am I missing something, is this something I will only see if I pay to become a Full Member or are there just very few of them?
Cheers,
Ausgold
I have just joined your very informative forum. My wife and I are retired school bus operators and ex-farmers. In Australia we travel a lot in our 4WD and caravan to remote outback locations prospecting for gold with specialist metal detectors. We also enjoy hunting for coins and treasures in more "civilized" locations with our other detecting machines.
At the moment we are researching the idea of flying to the UK in 2025 and buying a used motorhome. We would then spend about 6 months visiting your lands and metal detecting along the way.
In Australia we are well catered for when travelling, with many rural council areas being "RV Friendly", offering free water filling points, grey and black water dump points and increasingly even free overnight or 48 hour camping sites, sometimes even with free hot water showers. Small rural towns NEED the revenue that tourists can bring into them and the local businesses and councils recognize that they can attract people to stop and detour into their towns by offering such free camping options.
On major State and National Highways there are also free camping and rest areas as authorities realize that Fatigue is a major contributing factor in serious road crashes (It's now called one of The Fatal Five). We are encouraged to stop and take a break every 2 hours and to sleep in our beds rather than behind the steering wheel.
We have joined your Forum to educate ourselves on the UK system and explore possibilities for our trip. I do have a question or 2 already if I may?
I have been looking at the Location App and surfing around the landscape looking at places and facilities. In the map legend there are red icons for Aires Chargeable (AC) and Aires Free (AF). Looking on the entire map of GB I have found a few AC and zero AF. Am I missing something, is this something I will only see if I pay to become a Full Member or are there just very few of them?
Cheers,
Ausgold