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Stick thin scratty looking woman, late 50s, dressed in pyjamas and dressing gown with flip-flops. Walking to the toilet smoking a fag with a Yorkie on a thin red lead.
I'm pretty sure every campsite and caravan park has one of those...
Similarly to the overnight camper who has everything seriously organised in their vehicle with a nicely pitched tent and seating/cooking area - takes ages setting it up, takes ages drinking the morning cup of hot brew and then lazily unpacks and heads off - never really clear what they are doing but seems to have all teh time spent pitching their bed for the night and the next morning taking all the time to pack it away meticulously...I'm just never brave enough to go and ask where they are heading, so this is a mystery to me and likely to remain so for some time!
The people you read on STW?
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Sexist, ageist, weightist, judgemental presumeably non-smoker bloke airing his prejudices. 😉
Cannich. Two Scandi-looking young ladies wandering over to the toilet block topless - while I'm cowering in my tent from the midge onslaught.
Though this still happens at luxury mobile home sites
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The 'windbreak' family. Every metre around their tent blocked off with windbreaks! 🙂
Whilst camped at Charmouth a few years ago in a farmers field campsite one guy was mowing the lawn around his tent, I had to do a double take yes he had brought his own lawn mower
Swiss family Robinson - 3 adults + 6/7 children all aged 4-10
more, probably!Though this still happens at luxury mobile home sites
I love camping but don't love your average "camper" 😂
So the sites I go to are either very expensive eco style ones with tons of space or something like a woodland area, or very cheap no-frills ones with no amenities that might attract the rabble
I'm sure my mate and I are the people look at weirdly when we go camping. Two middle aged men camping together? Hanging out with surfboards and wetsuits but complaining about bad backs. Waffling on about real ale and quoting 90s songs at each other. Freaks.
I once met a patient in a campsite in france. Or more accurately she spotted me. After I’d walked or run past her sat by the pool a few times doing laps of the big slide with the kids who’d have been 9-11ish. I was in budgie smugglers as per the rules. After a few minutes of me denying all knowledge and not having met her before the penny dropped and she roared out “You’re my GP”
Had to pretend a child was drowning over there>>>>>> and scarper!
as long as you are on the ale not just chatting about it, and vice-versa for the music, that sounds just fine by me!! 😃Waffling on about real ale and quoting 90s songs at each other.
Me😎
I was dipping my toe into bikepacking recently and had ridden to a local campsite to test things out.
Some people on the campsite wandered over as I was packing up, asked me where I'd come from.
Probably expecting me to say Scotland or Denmark or something. Um....Leamington, I said (7 miles away) 😂
I’m going with wind break. Although they are rare on Troytown. I did nearly point out to a bloke who was new this year that if he wanted to spend his summer staring at the inside of a wind break he could have saved a bunch of on cash ferries, transfers and a premium campsite
On that campsite I’ve met
Prince Charles (well I say met , I saw him, but he does own it)
A couple who invited me to Opera in their back garden (it was fab)
The bloke evil took out the first patent on a flat screen tv (as he said “of course not the one that anyone uses or I wouldn’t be here”)
A doctor who use to pop in helicopter rescue documentaries
Her husband who wrote the environmental assessment for decommissioning Britains nuclear submarines
A women who persuaded her village to buy a share solar farm and battery so they could be self sufficient in electricity
An ex speed skier who is one of the few Britains to have competed in world cups
2 secondary head teachers who realised that they new each from being the same WhatsApp group
A woman who apologised mid morning coffee and said she had to find some where quiet to be interviewed on radio 4
I’ll stop there but walking any where in the campsite takes hours is there is so much to talk about
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A small child with wild long blondy hair, completely naked, riding a balance bike. 😂
Retired couple sitting in an expensive caravan (or motorhome) all day every day never going anywhere and apparently barely talking.
On the subject of people you know, when I was a primary school kid I met my actual current head teacher on a campsite in Southern France, one who'd been bollocking me a lot and wasn't well liked. He was there with his family for several weeks as we were, so because of the rules for campsite kids we had to socialise with his kids and mix with him more than I really wanted to.
# family who, on a lovely sunny evening are inside the caravan watching telly
We need a sidebar of shame.
# That dickhead with the acoustic guitar
This is a random one but I'll always remember it. Two blokes turning up to a campsite in Edale in separate cars. Only the cars were Aston Martin Cygnets (a £30-35k Toyota iQ with Aston badging). Pitched a tiny tent and disappeared the next day.
Never mind windbreaks, the next level people who surround their tents with their cars.
Dutch people. I mean there are not that many in total. At the moment they are all in a French campsite somewhere. Who's left in Holland?
People with a camper and 2 badly behaved dogs who bark too much; or people who show up with too much ultralight kit strapped to gravel bikes. Oh no wait they're all me.
Saw someone brought a vacuum cleaner to clean their tent (after one night).
retired couple with ebikes, full safety gear inc fluorescent tabards and handlebar mounted mirrors.
Oi my ancestors are Dutch!
Oh. 😁
scotroutes
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Cannich. Two Scandi-looking young ladies wandering over to the toilet block topless – while I’m cowering in my tent from the midge onslaught
Whilst peeking through a slightly unzipped flap?
DPSR!
Mr "I'm going for a shit and don't care who knows about it "
Found proudly striding across the campsite holding nothing but a toilet roll.
Whilst peeking through a slightly unzipped flap?
DPSR!
That's what mosquito netting is for...
Which campsite was this again? 🤔
Camping in Oz for me normally involves trying to find places where there are no other campers, but of the many times that’s not worked one of the funniest was a guy who turned up in the dark and was clearly talking to an animal. In the morning my suspicions were confirmed, he had brought a pet goat with him (illegal in National Parks too).
I’ve seen a lawnmower too… but it was converted into a portable fireplace. Ingenious really as it avoids scorching the grass.
Most embarrassing is all the British people that insist on feeding the wildlife… they’re often apologetic once you point out the problems though.
@northernmatt - that pr**k was at Nant Gwynant a few weeks ago, basically murdering the play list of Absolute radio until nearly midnight every night.
the anal retentive ex-headteacher - always faffing around with something on his immaculate van, never seems happy
Just me who for a moment wondered why the woman in the OP would be dragging a chocolate bar along?
The French family who proprietorially lay out stones on the perimeter of their pitch and grannie in a tabard sweeps the sand.
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First time parents in their mid 30s. Both wear high end branded active wear and smart haircuts. Their tent is a Teepee. Their trekking sandals cost over £150. They are pulling a 4 wheel flat trolley with a fat happy baby in who keeps trying to grab things but only succeeds in making everyone smile.
Dutch people. I mean there are not that many in total. At the moment they are all in a French campsite somewhere. Who’s left in Holland?
The Netherlands is entirely taken up with housing, offices, factories, sand dunes and intensive agriculture. If you want to go somewhere that's not a small cute town with wooden houses then you have to leave the country.
We usually go to Europe for 2 or 3 weeks in September in our campervan. Most people we meet midweek tend to be deliriously happy Dutch or German couples who are semi-retired or fully retired, hence the happiness. They're usually in a motorhome. We had one bloke who complained he had to go home in 7 weeks time to water this greenhouse as his daughter had inconsiderately booked a holiday.
I love French campsites. I often see some fat old bloke spending the whole afternoon cooking on a campingaz stove on his camping table (on the edge of his fully utilised and clearly demarcated pitch) whilst quaffing red wine. I'm usually jealous as we're knackered from a hot ride or walk.
When i used to go on family holidays in France, there would always be at least one person who had brought their cat on holiday with them...
The families with feral kids are by far the worst - normally it's 2 or 3 families all combined with their tents/vans facing each other, windbreaks surrounding them, 6 adults and about 20 uncontrollable kids, oh and at least 2 cockapoo yappy little bastard's which bark at anything that moves within a 3 mile radius.
They'll be the ones with drum'n'bass still going at 2am, with that one sloshed women who's witches cackle scithes through the night air for miles around...
I tend to avoid anything resembling a family campsite.
scotroutes
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Cannich. Two Scandi-looking young ladies wandering over to the toilet block topless – while I’m cowering in my tent from the midge onslaught.
As someone due to stay on that site in October, you have raised my expectations beyond the grumpy campsite owner welcome and foul, unclean day visitor loo we experienced a couple of weeks ago.
The last time I stayed on a larger site:
Group No. 1 - wondering what the hell possessed Person No. 2 to not only bring the large gas BBQ and table, but also the chef hat and apron to cook with out the front of their 25' long double wheel van with huge telly in the window, so that everyone can see them.
Person No. 2 - wondering what the heck a smelly Group No. 1 of canoeists in tiny mountain tents and Jetboils were a) cooking and b) celebrating with beer so much.
Yes, we were camped next to each other 😉
@ta11pau1 - had a bunch of these last year. 3 families and one night the women decided it would be fun to sit up until the small hours banging on about how much they didn't like their other halves, who were in the tents next to them. Asked them to be quiet a few times until I got really pissed off and started shouting at 3am. Spoke to site management and had them kicked off the next morning, ****ing ****ers.
People you see on a campsite!?
Middle class winkers, escorting badly dressed kids with terrible hair and cringeworthy names to the toilet blocks. Desperately trying not to make eye contact with the 'rough types' whilst still giving off an air of smug superiority.
Middle class winker's wife will be at the tent, staving off a wine hangover, dressed in oversized and well worn, expensively branded fleece top and thoroughly skanky PJ bottoms. Crocs optional. She will be coping stoically but deep down, the thought that her girlfriends were right and that she'd regret marrying Tobias is never far from the surface.
A women who persuaded her village to buy a share solar farm and battery so they could be self sufficient in electricity
Bet's she's now achieved some kind of god/prophet status round her way.
#couple who are clearly on the point of divorce, and one of them being forced to go camping is DEFINITELY not helping.
Just to add a reminder to watch the greatest Julia Davis' 'comedy' ever, 'Camping', if you can find it. 🙂
Many years ago was cycle touring in Slovenia I got a bit lost and spent the night at a nudist camp in Austria. I expect somewhere some Dutch nudist are still talking about the funny looking, slightly embarrassed, British nudist with the worst nudists tan ever seen and his tiny little travel towel not covering his modesty in the unisex showers!!!
# family who, on a lovely sunny evening are inside the caravan watching telly
My grandparents used to do a lot of caravanning so as kids we often went along as part of our summer holidays. This was almost standard on every campsite we visited - we'd be walking back from a day out past all the caravans looking in at the folk sitting there watching TV.
A couple arrived at the pitch next to ours once, the first thing they did after unhitching the caravan was to put a bloody great satellite dish up and they spent the rest of the week barely venturing out - wake up, TV on, sit there all day watching it. Weird.
The couple, who'd managed to grab the nicest pitch in the Forestry commission campsite above Aberfoyle overlooking a beautiful little loch, on what must be the busiest weekend of the year but then placed a 70" LCD tv between them and said loch blocking the entire view. Watching cash in the attic or some such crap, they were still there 2 hours later when I passed by on my way back. That was when I knew there was truly no hope for humanity....
Met some very odd people whilst living on a campsite in Sagres, Portugal during the pandemic winter 2020. Certainly out of our friendship bubble. Next-door neighbours, a Hungarian hippy and her silent German boyfriend plus cat and dog. All 4 of them in a converted panel van. She literally never left the campsite boundary for the 4 months we were there despite the most glorious sandy beach and epic waves nearby. Would smoke a spliff, hula hoop and dye clothes using leaves. Anti vac, anti any kind of establishment. Neighbours the other side, elderly German hippy couple with 2 pitches, a caravan and old van with Buddhas etc painted on. Lived there 14 years apparently! Didn't do much but every night 8 till 10 fired up the tv to top volume watching police chase style programmes. The 1st night we thought the cops were driving round the campsite it was so loud. Must have been a proper surround sound set up in there. Lots of surf dudes and one absolute nutter, Aussie, pro golf tutor living in Switzerland but out for the body boarding. Totally anti lockdown, had covid bad in the early pandemic, dragged into hospital because he was nearly dieing and refusing all treatment but relying on praying that God would heal him. Told us all about the Great Reset and also the time he was directly hit by lightning during a golf lesson. Oh and likes his lsd trips 😂
Serious end of the road place that Sagres!
