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Is there such a thing as camping etiquette? I mean, in our experience, if someone buys a cheap tent and it leaks (read waterfall), that the neighbours watch you take it down bewteen showers, watch your drowned rat kiddies sitting in a car and then laugh as you struggle against wind and rain to get a 'proper' tent up, are they supposed to be like that?

We were both brought up better than to be like that. Mr and Mrs Outwell next door stuck their rich noses in the air and laughed. My mum would be horrified if that had been me doing it to someone else. Mind you, their kids were just as bad.

I'm all for helping anybody whether we're camping or in everyday life. It's not just about camping, its about people being downright ignorant and rude.

Rant over...

fogmeister

I read your post several times and can't quite see where the site owners were involved.  Am I missing something? 

After all, it could have been just your luck for this family to have followed you to the next site. If so, would you have told that site owner that you wouldn't be coming back as well?

I'm definitely missing something here.

Quote: Originally posted by fogmeister on 15/4/2008

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TekkiAnne,

My apologies not very clear, I have missed a few important bits out, even reading it myself it doesnt make sense. The incidents I have explained where just a couple of things mentioned, this went on for a few days. But being the people that me and my wife are, we did'nt want to cause a fuss. We did eventually complain to the owners of the campsite about the noise that our neighbours where causing, but nothing much was done about it, we asked if we could move but they said the site was full, even though there where a few pitches available where we where pitched. The owners did'nt seem bothered, even when our pole was damaged when we got there we asked if they could tell us where the nearest camping shop was, and they told us but with great effort. So that's the reason why we told them we would'nt be back. Hope this makes more sense.

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Shoot them...its the only way....the Chav gene pool needs to be drained.

Your story sounds like a bad dream...We just got back from camping and had someone being ery noisy after midnight..I went and tapped on his awning and said;

"We've had a number of complaints about the noise now...please keep it down on we'll have to ask you to leave tonight"

It worked!

Quote: Originally posted by fogmeister on 15/4/2008

 But a couple of hours later, I happened to walk out of the tent and saw the little kid who allegedly my dog had bitten, kicking the living daylights out of our dog. Well that was it, my patience is normally quite good, but I just completely lost it, went over to them and just let rip,

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That beggars belief DebT82 !

Talk about dereliction of duty.  If you got his name I would write to the management and complain about both his words and his actions throughout your ordeal.