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01/6/2013 at 1:22pm
 Location: Hayle Cornwall
 Outfit: Outwell Harford XL + Extension
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Had a great week on menehay farm campsite in falmouth, 3rd day in and we drive to st mawes and the differential blows on my automatic mondeo. Luckily we only live an hour away and AA recover us to a local garage.

Long story short the car is stuffed and needs a new gearbox and differential. The car has our top box and tow bar on. Luckily we where able to pick my wives car up for the rest of the week.

A fellow camper asked why we had changed cars and noticed a lack of tow bar for our trailer offered to tow us home. What an absolute gent. We gave him a bottle of wine for his efforts as he refused petrol money.

The spirit of camping.....love it.


01/6/2013 at 1:34pm
 Location: Devizes Wiltshire
 Outfit: MWB VW Crafter PVC
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Awww, good to hear there are kind and generous folks about.

DK

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01/6/2013 at 5:25pm
 Location: Nottingham
 Outfit: Kampa Polzeath 8
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Great to here people are still kind.
Hope the car is able to be repaired and wont cost too much.

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Nigel

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01/6/2013 at 6:15pm
 Location: Mid Wales
 Outfit: Coachman Vip 520
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Good to hear there are still some nice people out there!!!! Hope you get everything sorted, at least you hadn't travelled too far from home!!!

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Enjoy life while you can, none of us know what's round the corner!


01/6/2013 at 7:00pm
 Location: North Wiltshire
 Outfit: Elddis & 3 tents
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Nice to hear a good positive camping story. What a great bloke.


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01/6/2013 at 7:05pm
 Location: Northampton
 Outfit: Pennine Pathfinder Q6 X Trail
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Excellent


01/6/2013 at 10:49pm
 Location: Cumbria
 Outfit: Outwell Arizona L
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Always good to hear nice stories regarding decent folk.

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Camping with a Outwell Arizona L


02/6/2013 at 12:55am
 Location: Coventry
 Outfit: Cabanon Elody & Julie & Combicamp
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Ah, what a lovely gent  Thanks for sharing that with us. It restores your faith in human nature doesn't it?

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Jean


02/6/2013 at 8:14am
 Location: South Cheshire
 Outfit: Monty 6 plus Extension
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What a generous man. Great to here there are still some genuine thoughtful people still out there


02/6/2013 at 8:17am
 Location: Derby.
 Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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Aw, come on you guys..... He knew all along he's skank a bottle o' wine out of it!!! Typical camper!!

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02/6/2013 at 9:53am
 Location: Kent
 Outfit: 5m Bell Tent & Olpro Pop Tent.
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Lets hope he`s a member on here. Nice story apart from your car being crocked.


02/6/2013 at 7:07pm
 Location: warrington
 Outfit:  LMC Royal.monza dlx tents everywhere
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send him round to mine,I haven't even got a car lol x


02/6/2013 at 8:10pm
 Location: Lincolnshire
 Outfit: outwell Cougar Lake vango Shangri-la
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Not enough people are willing to go out of their way to help someone else nowadays and its great to hear about it when someone does.

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Dawn



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