Are campsites open?

[paul&mandy]

I was spreading next to a caravan club site yesterday and it was fairly full of motorhomes and caravans. They looked to be having a lovely time all sat outside sunning themselves. Surely this isn't right?

 

[robs1]

Thought it was meant to be the 12th april

 

[essex man]

In Wales march 27th?
In England you can open holiday accommodation including campsites.
People can use if they have a "reasonable excuse"

 

[Hindsight]

I was spreading next to a caravan club site yesterday and it was fairly full of motorhomes and caravans. They looked to be having a lovely time all sat outside sunning themselves. Surely this isn't right?

I wondered too as seen several folk at a couple of campsites - excellent I thought at last get back to some sense of reason. Just need to get rid of these fecking masks - padding around in ASDA last night at 11pm (social distancing time of day) with sweaty face and fogged glasses.

 

[essex man]

I wondered too as seen several folk at a couple of campsites - excellent I thought at last get back to some sense of reason. Just need to get rid of these fecking masks - padding around in ASDA last night at 11pm (social distancing time of day) with sweaty face and fogged glasses.

Take it off?

 

[Guleesh]

I was spreading next to a caravan club site yesterday and it was fairly full of motorhomes and caravans. They looked to be having a lovely time all sat outside sunning themselves. Surely this isn't right?

Having a lovely time?? Sat outside sunning themselves eh?

 

[paul&mandy]

Having a lovely time?? Sat outside sunning themselves eh?

I too can't wait to get back to a campsite, I just didn't think "we"were allowed to yet?

 

[Bongodog]

In England its April 12th, checked on the Caravan club webiste and thats says the same, are you sure as to what sort of "club" you were peering over the hedge at ?

 

[Lowland1]

I’d personally rather have a fatal disease than go camping.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I’d personally rather have a fatal disease than go camping.

I sold our inherited camper van in August last year, made decent money too. My wife and kids were miffed off a bit, but no more cramped up time in that f’ing thing

 

[Lowland1]

I sold our inherited camper van in August last year, made decent money too. My wife and kids were miffed off a bit, but no more cramped up time in that f’ing thing

I have always wanted to do a road trip around the States in a motorhome but camping or caravaning just seems like absolute misery the type of punishment that many on here want to inflict on anyone who dares suggest a foreign holiday. Personally I’d take the risk in fact a week in France this Easter would beat a week in a tent on the East Coast anytime.

 

[DrWazzock]

Well, lockdown has suited me just fine.
I’m more than happy if people keep as far away from me as possible.
I can take or leave pubs and restaurants. Haven’t missed them or the drain on my wallet.
Never liked holidays or being jammed in cheek by jowl with the masses, but each to their own.

 

[DrWazzock]

Commercial pubs eh?
People clamouring to give their hard earned cash to a multinational corporation so they can drink a liquid that destroys their own health while in the company of strangers you’d rarely want in your own home. That goes by the definition of a “good time” nowadays.

 

[Lowland1]

Commercial pubs eh?
People clamouring to give their hard earned cash to a multinational corporation so they can drink a liquid that destroys their own health while in the company of strangers you’d rarely want in your own home. That goes by the definition of a “good time” nowadays.

Cheer up we don’t have to put you on suicide watch or something. People do and enjoy some very strange things I mean who in their right mind wants to go skiing.
I will add to this when I was a child in the seventies my Great Grandma would rent a large house in Skegness for two weeks in the summer my Grandma and Great Aunt would go and my brother and I would have a brilliant time with all the old folks and enjoy the bright lights and sophistication of the jewel of the East Coast. If I tried to do this today with my Kids they’d have me sectioned.
I don’t drink and think restaurants are a rip off but when someone tells me I can’t go to one it actually makes me more inclined to want to go. So if camping is banned I’m going to buy a tent.

 

[MRT]

I’m going to buy a tent.

Just go and choose one from the many abandoned in any easily accessible green space

 

[Al R]

2 campervans and 2 caravans here all week now, totally self contained and I havnt spoken to any of them yet but I do know them all.

 

[Hindsight]

Cheer up we don’t have to put you on suicide watch or something. People do and enjoy some very strange things I mean who in their right mind wants to go skiing.
I will add to this when I was a child in the seventies my Great Grandma would rent a large house in Skegness for two weeks in the summer my Grandma and Great Aunt would go and my brother and I would have a brilliant time with all the old folks and enjoy the bright lights and sophistication of the jewel of the East Coast. If I tried to do this today with my Kids they’d have me sectioned.
I don’t drink and think restaurants are a rip off but when someone tells me I can’t go to one it actually makes me more inclined to want to go. So if camping is banned I’m going to buy a tent.

Crumbs you went to the bright lights!

As for Lincolnshire coast our friends regale tales similar to yours but of houses rented at Anderby Creek or Chapel St Leonards - so you were fortunate to have the chance to at least see slot machines and girls in Skeg!

Hunstanton caravan for me - but I come from the Isle of Ely Fens, so Lincolnshire coast in the day would have been too exotic by far.

 

[Lowland1]

Crumbs you went to the bright lights!

As for Lincolnshire coast our friends regale tales similar to yours but of houses rented at Anderby Creek or Chapel St Leonards - so you were fortunate to have the chance to at least see slot machines and girls in Skeg!

Hunstanton caravan for me - but I come from the Isle of Ely Fens, so Lincolnshire coast in the day would have been too exotic by far.

We had two Whitsun weeks in Cromer 75 and 76 I think. Now that was exotic.

 

[DrWazzock]

Cheer up we don’t have to put you on suicide watch or something. People do and enjoy some very strange things I mean who in their right mind wants to go skiing.
I will add to this when I was a child in the seventies my Great Grandma would rent a large house in Skegness for two weeks in the summer my Grandma and Great Aunt would go and my brother and I would have a brilliant time with all the old folks and enjoy the bright lights and sophistication of the jewel of the East Coast. If I tried to do this today with my Kids they’d have me sectioned.
I don’t drink and think restaurants are a rip off but when someone tells me I can’t go to one it actually makes me more inclined to want to go. So if camping is banned I’m going to buy a tent.

I’m ecstatic. Finally finished spring drilling after dodgy clutches and gearboxes and a persistent slow puncture.
As kids we often went to Wales camping in a VW camper with the parents. Father’s words still stick in my mind. “If you two don’t behave, we will stop for another day.”

 

[Lowland1]

I’m ecstatic. Finally finished spring drilling after dodgy clutches and gearboxes and a persistent slow puncture.
As kids we often went to Wales camping in a VW camper with the parents. Father’s words still stick in my mind. “If you two don’t behave, we will stop for another day.”

Good to know you are drilled up sorry for your machinery problems those Fendts aren’t what people make them out to be. We never had a family holiday except for one day a year at the Royal Show which usually involved a 4 am start to feed the pigs and a late night of chasing escaped pigs when we got home. I’d be very keen to continue that tradition except my wife is a firm believer in treating your kids better than you were treated. As for Wales too right I had 3 years at University there haven’t been back since.