All his family holidays were naturist!
We went on a family caravanning holiday around France when I was in my teens. On our last day in Brittany there was something quite deceptive about the weather and we all managed to get really, really badly sunburned. Had an uncomfortable journey down to the Cote Savage trying to contort outsides into the shadows cast by the cars door pillars to arrive at our next campsite. Which was in flat boring woodlands, next to flat boring dunes leading to an expansive featureless flat boring beach and nothing really to do for miles around. So the only thing to really do each day was go and sit on the beach.... which it turned out was a Naturist beach.
Being so burnt we were sat there with long sleeves, collars up, socks on, and big hats feeling weirdly conspicuous
At one point my mum wondered aloud "So where they keep their car keys?"
All his family holidays were naturist!
Waaah! Brilliant
We have been camping quite a few times but still have very little equipment. I can't work out how people manage to pack so much stuff! Camp beds double as seating etc.
Best camp set up I have seen was a black Jeep Wrangler with a black roof tent and everything packed in black flight cases! Swiss couple.
Best camp set up I have seen was a black Jeep Wrangler with a black roof tent and everything packed in black flight cases! Swiss couple.
Saw quite a few roof tent set ups recently. Some fairly elaborate. Just thought it must be a royal pain if you actually want to drive anywhere during your stay 🤔
My outlaws have one of these (an older model) slide-on style campers. We call it the Tardis because it's so spacious. They take about two minutes to set up and set down when you arrive at a campsite/side of the road and are easy to slide off and store in the shed.
https://activecampers.com.au/
Currently camping near Barnard Castle and recognising a lit of these stereotypes...
and left hundreds, if not thousands of tents behind. #rollseyes
Quite a lot of festivals encourage you to leave tents which are then donated to charities.
Daughter was at a European gymnastics event in July in Switzerland where they had taken mats and sleeping bags as they were sleeping at local schools, and they were encouraged to leave them for local homeless/refugee charities.
Im not the weird one this morning. A retired french couple on a mountain tandem with trailer. He has a magnificent moustache. She has a magnificent afro.
Nice folk tho
We were at coldstream at the weekend with family, not real humdingers, but the guy walking around with his eye mask on top of his baldy head as he'd obviously forgotten it was there was quite amusing.
There were some massive set ups though, blow housing estates with blow up sofas, exterior lighting and what looked like a blow up double bed complete with headboard!
urban myth perpetuated by the terminally idle to justify their laziness.Quite a lot of festivals encourage you to leave tents which are then donated to charities.
If you pack away the tent neatly & take it home with you, [I]then[/I] you can donate it to charity upon your return. Think about it... no-one is trawling Glastonbury, assessing thousands of discarded tents for viability, re-uniting all the constituent parts and re-packing them neatly in a carry case (which probably no longer exists anyway). Anything left out just goes to landfill.
Quite a lot of festivals encourage you to leave tents which are then donated to charities.
urban myth perpetuated by the terminally idle to justify their laziness.
Not just tents anyway.
'kin R. Soles. 😡
Reading
People seem to think because they are paying to be at a venue, that it means that they can dump their shit anywhere. Doesn't take too much for the average person to translate that to the general environment sadly.
I personally think selling these Festival kits just encourages this appalling trend.
Only £50 so you can just leave the lot when you go...
I think that's worse than normal as people got out pretty quickly this weekend when R.Soles started setting fire to tents.
All his family holidays were naturist!
Waaah! Brilliant
We have been camping quite a few times but still have very little equipment.
Then I'd personally avoid naturist campsites
Even when I was at a festival with an el cheapo Millets tent, cost £75, it came home with me, and is the one in the photo above; now it’s a £190-odd Decathlon Air Seconds inflatable, along with a 10cm self-inflating mattress and a footprint groundsheet. About £300, but looking at some of the bigger tents in the photo above they can’t have been *that* cheap, although if it’s a party who all chipped in then pretty cheap per person.
It’s a different crowd who go to Reading/Leads, more dance and stuff, who don’t have the same mindset as people who go to Glastonbury, Greenman, EOTR, etc.
I was talking to a lass who works in the little cafe/restaurant in town I’m a regular at, and she was at Reading. Her and her friends left before the end on Sunday, because they were so frightened at what was kicking off, they were almost running, heads down, hands on top of their heads because people were throwing chairs, bottles all sorts of rubbish.
Seems not much has changed there, from when I went in the 70’s, there were Party 7 beer cans being thrown around, and those were steel, bottles full of piss, 7” vinyl singles that were given away as promos being thrown like frisbees.
Having said that, when I went again in the 90’s, Bjork was a headliner, Foo Fighters played their first gig in the U.K., and the atmosphere was very relaxed.
Chap at Coniston Hall campsite in Aug 2020 set up next to the toilet and shower block, fire going, wellies on and literally chatting and joking to every single person who walked past.
Was very jealous of his massive, dry and warm set up.
Camped circa 1993 at St Andres des Alpes in deepest Provence. Up rolls a cold war vintage Skoda, Autrian plates, three guys with Village People moustaches and bottle end glasses, one woman. Campsite was kept awake that night by the sounds of alfresco bonking that seemed to migrate round the campsite over the course of several hours. Folk in the campsite weren't massively impressed tbh. Several days later we rolled up at a campsite several hundred kms away only to be greeted by the selfsame team. We were even less impressed.
I love the DoE kids, they just give me hope for the future
Got to agree I love seeing them trudging along with some huge backpack with wellies and handbag strapped on top but giving it a go and enjoying it. I only bumped into a set on a campsite once in mid Wales where we learnt them a lighter but it was cool to see their excitement in the drizzle.
Eskdale last weekend
* German couple in an expedition spec Unimog, parked as close as humanely possible to the shop and toilet block
* achingly cool black land rover with a roof tent
* gangsta spec white range rover parked next to a festival's worth of camping kit requiring an additional trailer to carry it
* an infinite number of VW campers*
we arrived on sunday and pitched next to two VW campers, they left on monday and were replace with two vw campers...
Dubbed Out Community types - VW van, MASSIVE awning, blow up 3-peice suite, windbrake, flag on a fishing pole, wearing DryRobes
Love this thread 🙂
First time camping with my wife down in Cornwall, spent one night listening to a bloke a few tents away badly singing along to the entirety of Coldplay's "A rush of blood to the head" album at the TOP OF HIS VOICE from about 10:30 pm to 11:30
A few years later somewhere in east Devon, camped on a completely empty site (owner was just about to close it as he had no bookings): nice big field with a few molehills. One old giffer and his dog arrived a few days later an did that thing where they decided to pitch their tent not too close to us but close enough in a huge field. Bloke seemed pleasant enough but one morning while eating our breakfast he wandered over to near our tent holding a hammer, crouched down next to a molehill, waited a few minutes and then proceeded to bludgeon to death a mole while we looked on aghast. He mumbled "I hate moles" and then wondered back to his tent...
I see quite a few DoE kids stumbling around the trails looking knackered, in various different stages of exhaustion/euphoria. We were camping at Brow Farm near the Long Mynd and a load turned up, knackered but in high spirits, it was great. They were noisy until about 9pm then dead quiet.
@trailmonkey Actually, we all had a lovely time.
This thread reads like the lyrics from a HalfManHalfBiscuit album!
I see quite a few DoE kids stumbling around the trails looking knackered, in various different stages of exhaustion/euphoria. We were camping at Brow Farm near the Long Mynd and a load turned up, knackered but in high spirits, it was great. They were noisy until about 9pm then dead quiet.
Brilliant, innit?
This year's camps were rather pleasant. Fire was only to smoke the midges out.
Once had a load of DoE kids turn up at a campsite we were on at the longmynd.
They all went to bead at about 7.30.
Heard them complaining the next morning to the supervisors that the couldn't sleep because the sheep were too noisy.😂
LittleMissMC is doing her Bronze expedition next weekend. She's anxiously looking at long range forecasts.
Angry single mum with embarrassed 8 year old son (me) in an ancient ridge tent (canvas with steel poles, round ends), busy campsite.
All instructions offered at the top of her voice. ie: "NICHOLAS, FETCH THE DOG LEAD, IT'S IN THE BELL-END".
Thanks oldnick for reminding me of the endless bell-end jokes from scout camps as a kid!
We were in a lovely campsite in the black forest this summer - think we were the only English family there, possibly one other for a couple of nights. My 9 year old daughter was adopted by a big crew of feral, smiley and generally awesome Dutch kids ranging from about 6-15, and spent hours a day by the pool, playground and in the river with them... I think we'll be back with bikes (and an e-bike for my wife) in the next year or 2.
Only real issue is my shame at the ridiculously poor state of my Dutch and German, probably at about the same level as the 6 year olds'! I can get by in French, but seem to have forgotten everything other than food in German and only know a few useless phrases in Dutch. Dua Lingo/Babel here I come.
We had the enthusiastic early rising dad who would shout out to the rest of the family every morning thet the "scraaammbbllled eeeeeggss" were ready at 8.00 am every morning !! It was reminiscent of good morning Vietnam.
8.00 ams not early 🙂
Bloke seemed pleasant enough but one morning while eating our breakfast he wandered over to near our tent holding a hammer, crouched down next to a molehill, waited a few minutes and then proceeded to bludgeon to death a mole while we looked on aghast. He mumbled “I hate moles” and then wondered back to his tent…
Omg this is so traumatic!
The group of pissed women - told to be quiet 3 times by the site owner- loudly reassuring themselves at 3am that using large tampons doesn't mean that you have a big fanny.
Im certainly the loon on this site. Everone else has massive caravans , campervans or huge canvas bungalows. Then there is me. Bicycle and mountain tent
Im certainly the loon on this site.
That's some achievement according to this thread!
