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26/5/2024 at 11:31am
Location: Devizes Wiltshire Outfit: MWB VW Crafter PVC
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Part of the fun of camping for me is to watch fellow campers setting up their units.
Best ones are the ones with everyone involved, young and old.
Worst ones are the ones when one person is obviously more controlling and dictatorial, usually the male being rather mean and curt towards his female partner.
If I see anyone struggling, I would offer to help.
I still remember the time when I struggled to put up a canopy in the pouring rain in Glencoe C&CC in July 2012 (that was before I learnt how to do it using the ridge line method), and the hikers in the hut nearby watched and did not offer any help. I swore I would not let anyone struggle without offering to help after that.
While in Europe recently, I offered to help by providing an EHU extension lead to one couple, and to provide an extra guy rope and peg to hold down the top of a caravan awning that was flapping. I was pleased I was able to help with the spare equipment that I carry.
I tried not to intervene if there were more than one person setting up as I did not wish to get in the way.
DK
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via mobile 14/7/2024 at 4:43pm
Location: Stoke on Trent Outfit: Bailey Pegasus Modena 2016
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Not a tent but I was sitting in my caravan one windy and rainy day in North Wales last year when a woman and a child pulled up on the pitch next to us, I was quite impressed as you don't see many women lone caravanning (obviously lone barring the child).
She unhitched the caravan and motor moved the caravan onto the pitch, then proceeded to loosen the jockey wheel, with the inevitable "thud" as the caravan nose dived into the ground, me and the other half went to help her (we offered first!) (jacked up the hitch before re-tightening the jockey wheel) clamp), she said she had borrowed her dad's caravan so I offered to help level it etc, as it was far from level, she declined and then became a bit arrogant and rude, so we left her to it.
Went back into the caravan and after a while we noticed that she was then trying to put her awning up (still windy) we were watching bits of the awning get blown onto the railway line and I didn't feel one bit guilty about it, the moral of the story is that people don't have to help you, when they do, treat them courteously
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30/7/2024 at 9:02pm
Location: Devizes Wiltshire Outfit: MWB VW Crafter PVC
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Quote: Originally posted by Mucker1884 on 30/7/2024
Couple in their late 20's(?).
She stood aside in her heels and ball gown (I kid you not!) with arms firmly folded and face firmly scowling, whilst he spent an hour putting up their 2/3man tent that just about reached waist height at its highest point.
Off they then scurried to the shower block, only to return with a fully inflated double air bed, that was approximately 2.7 times bigger than the tent doorway.
It was only about 30% inflated by the time they squeezed it through the door!
An hour of inactivity followed, before she hastened to lock herself in the car, despite his pleading and protestations.
It got dark with her still in the car.
There was no trace of them, their tent, nor their car, when I took my morning coffee outside at about 6am.
It seems they left in the night... but I've no idea whether they left together!
Not a site with no traffic between 23:00 to 07:00 rule then!
DK
------------- * Apple The Campervan - A Van For Work, Rest And Play! *
- 2025 - inc. FR & DE
- 2024 - 10/56 inc. FR & NL
- 2023 - 48 inc. FR
- 2022 - 49
- 2021 - 34
* Ex-tenter & solo female camper *
* Treat life events like a dog: If you can't eat it, play with it, or hump it, p1$$ on it and walk away! *
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