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Went to Holmesly in the New Forest this weekend and as a "tenter" we pitched next to a lovely couple in a caravan, really friendly and chatty. Had a few chats with some other campers, one who wanted to know about our Coleman lamp and another as we were packing up who wanted some footprint advice. Lots of others stopped to say hello.

Its the most friendly camp we've been on apart from the SouthWest UK Campsite meet in April.

The difference here was in the way we pitched. Usually we pitch round the edge of a field but this time we seemed to be pitched "on the way" to the loo block, people stopped to chat as they passed. It made for a nice atmosphere.

We've just come back from camping yesterday and must say we came across a very friendly bunch of campers. When we arrived it was a little windy and before we even appeared to struggle to hold down the tent we had 3 people come over and help out to keep a hold until we got the first few pegs in.

Then later on my husband had a bit of back pain and another camper came over saying she had noticed him holding his back and offered him some cream to help the pain.

Normally we are pretty unsociable lol and keep ourselves to ourselves but makes all the difference when people are friendly.

This is a nice thread!  I was beginning to despair reading so many posts this year about bad neighbours.  I've been a regular camper for over 30 years and in all the trips I've made the bad neighour experiences I would struggle to count on one hand.  The vast majority of people out there are just lovely and the few wrong 'uns - well, that's life!