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Im just back from a w/end away camping...In what I consider to be  a wee bit of "Heaven on Earth" Pitched right by the Atlantic on an Empty beach(Except for the guy in the next tent filling/emptying his lobster pots) and the two kids from the other side  building sandcastles...Sat Saturday night by a campfire watching the sunset and toasting me marshmallows...Spent the days visiting places I had never been before and finding even more remote places to visit...all which I loved..and am already making plans to go back ASAP....

Have only been abroad once about 30yrs ago...To Portugal...and thouroughly enjoyed it(still got the piccys to prove it)Circumstances...Marriage...4 kids...and finaces...Have all kept me from going abroad...mostly down to me not looking for that bargain holiday abroad that most of my aquantances rave about..Have not had a passport for about 25yrs(lost it) but for 2 yrs now have had a hankering to get off abroad....But as my motto is "Manyana"(Tomorrow) I've always put it off...

3 weeks ago...I got as far as getting the passport application form....Its all signed(and counter signed) and come next pay day will be sent of for processing...Next year Im off back to Portugal...on an all inclusive deal...and Im really looking forward to it...This trip is one of those things I want to do(if finaces allow) before I get too old to enjoy them(though I am by no means ancient or doddery yet)

However camping/caravaning...Static or whatever... I think remains my 1st love even though I've had some stinkers of trips away in the tent...the lure of finding a wee site like I've just visited....and the almost spiritual experiance I had...will always keep me coming back for more...Absolutely no axe to grind with folks who holiday abroad...Good luck to them...

Sorry for the long post...but I've never managed the art of using two words when five will do....

Jelboy.

 I arrived home this afternoon from a few days camping near Comrie and a few days on Mull. I met my neighbour who has just returned from Turkey where it was 38 degrees, too hot to sit out, so guess who has the 'better colour' about them ?

 Its also fair to say that he probably didn't waken up any mornings with damp feet because of heavy rain and winds

I love camping.  We are off for our long awaited first trip this year  to the Isle of Wight on Friday night.  The holiday starts for me on Friday morning, up early at 5 am to start sorting out the clothes and packing the bags, while His Nibs gets stuck into the outhouse, sorting and resorting his neatly labelled boxes (think Ratty from Wind in the Willows just before the fight at Toad Hall "heresonefortheRat,onefortheMole,onefortheBadgerandonefortheToad"). 

A late breakfast/early brunch then I wash and dry our bedding and sort out any last bits such as the frozen milk for the coolbox and toiletries etc while His Nibs cleans the car and nips off to fill the tyres or whatever technical stuff he does, then its the big push to pack the car.  Clean bedding on the bed ready for our return, then at 5.30 - 6.00 ish we try and have a nap for a couple of hours.  Don't know why we bother, its never more than a doze.  Up again around 9 ish, either a quick snack or takeaway, depending how hungry we are, then about 11 ish we're ready to go!  A stop for a coffee somewhere round Brum, and then down via Newbury to the New Forest, arriving at Lymington at dawn.  We're usually early so we sit waiting for the ferry, along with the milk man, bread man and other early arrivals, while the sky lightens.  Then over the Solent we go, landing at Yarmouth.  (I  must remember NOT to leave my handbag on the ferry like last year, that was the longest half hour, waiting to get it back complete with purse, credit cards, both mobiles, keys the lot). Then over to Sandown to find the best full English on the island followed by a lazy stroll along the beach and around the town until lunchtime, when its off to the campsite to see if we can pitch up at last!  Yay!  Excited? Me?  You bet I am!!

But I was just as excited when we went to Italy a few years ago, I've only been abroad 3 times in my life so I'm still wide eyed and prepared to be amazed and enthralled by all the new sights, sounds and smells (blimey, I sound like a puppy, if I had a tail I'd probably wag it).  Maybe its not where and how we holiday, it's how we look at it?

Quote: Originally posted by Daves mate on 09/8/2010

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One of my particular favourites is "what do you do if it rains?" to which I reply "what would you do if you stayed in a hotel and it rained?"

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Quote: Originally posted by gally on 09/8/2010

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hello my name is gally and im a campaholic

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