Important please read!

[Channa]

I live full time in my home, and it isnt a bed of roses at times.

I have met genuine people here, and also weekend wannabees that dont have a clue: other than it sounds cool in their hermatic social circles

I wild and use sites occasionally,I foot the bill, that is my business no one elses.

There is no reason to prejudice anyone that chooses a site if that situation satisfies their needs.

The sharing of information and knowledge keeps me engaged here.

Channa

 

[kimbowbill]

I live full time in my home, and it isnt a bed of roses at times.

I have met genuine people here, and also weekend wannabees that dont have a clue: other than it sounds cool in their hermatic social circles

I wild and use sites occasionally,I foot the bill, that is my business no one elses.

There is no reason to prejudice anyone that chooses a site if that situation satisfies their needs.

The sharing of information and knowledge keeps me engaged here.

Channa

and here's me thinking it was me that kept you here, pfft,

 

[runnach]

and here's me thinking it was me that kept you here, pfft,

dont let the cat out the bag...... I was being serious for a change ,,,,,,,,, btw rendevous meadowhall soon treat you to a toffee apple:yeahthat::heart:

chan chan

 

[vwalan]

hi. i regularly call campsites prison camps or concentration camps . its all part of the fun. nobody is meant to get upset . the other day i was told to change my attitude to campsites etc . i think i shall always think of them as prison camps . and i dare say i shall always not like some of the folk on them . but i might not always like folk that wild camp . its not really meant to offend just a joke . i think the thread was started and not meant to offend . i joined in because i possibly am the worse culprit for calling them prisons . never really thought it would offend that much . but i must have been wrong . i have never met any of the others and would share a jar with all of them if we met. its life . dont think we need some one telling us to change our attitude though .

 

[kimbowbill]

dont let the cat out the bag...... I was being serious for a change ,,,,,,,,, btw rendevous meadowhall soon treat you to a toffee apple:yeahthat::heart:

chan chan

cool, just let me know when, its gotta be a thorntons toffee apple tho lol xx what you doing at meadowhall? if you need to fill up with water or empty ya scooby doo or recharge your welcome at mine xx

 

[Tbear]

I'm assuming that the post in question is the one that was about camp sites being like prisons? I saw it a few days ago before we set off to France but now it's gone. I have to say that I found it very worrying. I and my husband took up motor-homing just over two years ago as we travel regularly to our house in Lot-et-Garonne in France and it seemed a nice way to travel down and we could then use it to explore France and beyond.

Having used aires (only in the off season as they are too crowded in summer) we are now looking forward to some real wild camping, which we first did in the Highlands of Scotland last year and loved being in wild places on our own. But we still use sites and we like them. We don't use the big all singing all dancing ones as I suspect that they're more suitable for families with children who may want to stay there for some time, and why shouldn't they? We use French municipals and in the UK the Caravan Club and we find them all superb and good value.

I lookd at this site and was only allowed five views on my PC at home but decided that it may be a good one to join but the thread that I read quite worried me. I am told that I'm a sheep, or some kind of idiot because I also want to use campsites. I can assure you that I'm not! I'm a retired professional who has travelled the world and been to some places that are very wild and even dangerous.

So to sum up, I think that this site needs to make up its mind whom it represents. Is it just for those who totally scorn sites or is it also for people like my husband and me who are happy to wild camp but also use sites?

I found the rhetoric from some of those who are purely wild campers to be very hurtful and off-putting to newcomers like us and I wonder how many members it has cost this forum?

I would also add that I have never felt that any site that I've used was like a 'prison'. I have seen many aires where to me anyway, staying on them would have been more like being a battery hen, with no room to flap your wings a little, but if people are happy to use them, good luck to them and I will never criticise their choice.

So all in all this is an odd post as I've had to join this site to say that I probably won't be joining! I shall hang around a little though and see if the earlier views expressed by some people are typical of you all. If they are then it's goodbye I'm afraid!

Ruth, Cheshire and France (currently in France!)

Ruth,

I think the conversation that you reffer to involved Vwalan and I. Alan always refers to campsites as prisons as he likes to spend his time out in the Moroccon desert, By comparison I am sure you can see his light hearted point. I made the sheep comment which refered to "some" people that stay on sites at £70 per night just because everybody else is around them. I have often stayed on sites in that area but normally for closer to a tenner a night, my favourite is one that sells wonderful cider.

Please don't be put off by light hearted banter because many on here have as much to offer as I have to learn.

Richard

 

[Channa]

cool, just let me know when, its gotta be a thorntons toffee apple tho lol xx what you doing at meadowhall? if you need to fill up with water or empty ya scooby doo or recharge your welcome at mine xx

ta, spent most of the day repairing caravans in readiness for Leeds this Friday after 19 th feb, a gig in Barnsley then Meadowhall,

The rigs look amazing, but with my luck kiddies slides lol,

tested a volvo globetrotter,today,humped tyres about back hurts, but the pish pish pish of the hydraulics was music,

no need to scream Jen, things are octane,,,,,,see you on the shy

channa

 

[defitzi]

stink

:sucks: boring too. i never noticed. if i had i'd not have noticed . like so what . big kids. best ignore :blah

 

[keeflester]

Tin cities

hi. i regularly call campsites prison camps or concentration camps . its all part of the fun. nobody is meant to get upset . the other day i was told to change my attitude to campsites etc . i think i shall always think of them as prison camps . and i dare say i shall always not like some of the folk on them . but i might not always like folk that wild camp . its not really meant to offend just a joke . i think the thread was started and not meant to offend . i joined in because i possibly am the worse culprit for calling them prisons . never really thought it would offend that much . but i must have been wrong . i have never met any of the others and would share a jar with all of them if we met. its life . dont think we need some one telling us to change our attitude though .

Tin cities we call em. Our ethos is why would you want to stay in amongst others, even closer than a housing estate, with worse noise insulation, when with a bit of effort you can get peace and quiet, a good view and NO neighbours?

 

[Byronic]

vwalan and Tbear on the presumption that you are correct and it was your posts that gave "offence".
I would like to state that although I may disagree with what you say I defend your right to say it, perhaps not quite to the death as Voltaire might have done.

But I'm only a Free Member so nobody's going to take notice anyway.

If I ask you whether you prefer brown bread to white bread or vice versa just be careful not to say which bread is only fit for prisoners, there's a 50% chance you might offend me.

Many of the coastal winter campsites here in Spain are overcrowded to the affect that the units parked on them are so close to each other they would breach fire regs in the UK, (and possibly Spain). I expect the authorities ensure prison cells would comply with the regs...... hopefully.

 

[kimbowbill]

vwalan and Tbear on the presumption that you are correct and it was your posts that gave "offence".
I would like to state that although I may disagree with what you say I defend your right to say it, perhaps not quite to the death as Voltaire might have done.

But I'm only a Free Member so nobody's going to take notice anyway.

If I ask you whether you prefer brown bread to white bread or vice versa just be careful not to say which bread is only fit for prisoners, there's a 50% chance you might offend me.

Many of the coastal winter campsites here in Spain are overcrowded to the affect that the units parked on them are so close to each other they would breach fire regs in the UK, (and possibly Spain). I expect the authorities ensure prison cells would comply with the regs...... hopefully.

Please dont think that you will be treat differently to a full member, you are an equal whether you have paid or not, :dance:

 

[Byronic]

I was being rhetorical really, after all as regards someone elses viewpoint or advice it's up to you to make of it what you will.So long as it's not personally demeaning why should anyone take umbrage?
I think someone described a certain wild site recently as a third world refugee camp, he/she didn't
mean it literally.... I hope.
Anyway much ado about nothing.