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Nedra1

24/5/2016 at 5:47pm
Location: Bedfordshire
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greenscooby, we have never encountered anyone like you on a camp site and would be delighted to make your acquaintance. My most recent trip to Cornwall was to a funeral and I stayed in a hotel in Truro. A couple of years ago we had a lovely camping holiday in Devon on a very quiet site between Plymouth and Dartmouth not far from Slapstone Sands. I am not sure what PAFC stands for but will look out for it.

Hacksaw Bob

24/5/2016 at 6:14pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Nedra1 on 24/5/2016
...I am not sure what PAFC stands for but will look out for it.

Plymouth Argyle Football Club, possibly?

PAFC

greenscooby

24/5/2016 at 6:26pm
Location: Plymouth Devon
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You got it Hacksaw Bob.

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sam7hh

25/5/2016 at 7:47am
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My favorite camping activity ius to have a pre or post dinner wander round the site to see all the different people, and they camping set ups.

oldham

25/5/2016 at 12:59pm
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Nedra I fear that attempting to select a group to camp with will be disappointing. You will still be on a site with campers who will still do it their way. One thing campers are not are sheep.

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Nedra1

25/5/2016 at 1:13pm
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Oldham, I have no illusions about campers being individuals. I am not sure if anyone will come along. My aim was to appeal to a more varied group than the average one connected with the art and leisure group. Most of these groups appeal to a certain age group and type.Even if a few people met to compare notes I would be very happy.

TraceyD

25/5/2016 at 2:43pm
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I guess we are all as different when camping as we are when we are at home. I'm more than happy to have a chat (over my windbreak) with my neighbours or in the pot wash but we're not the type to pop over and have a drink round someone else's tent. We're not antisocial, we just like to spend time chilling at our own tent.

Our windbreak is there to provide shelter when cooking, shade when it's sunny but most importantly to divert Bailey's eyes so that he doesn't bark at everyone who walks past. We've had children who insist on coming up to try and stroke him which he's not keen on, so we're trying to do the sensible thing.

On the subject of children I find as I get older (into my 50s) my tolerance levels are quite low. On one of our favourite sites last year we had children riding bikes at speed in between the pitches, one even crashed into our fire pit, which fortunately was empty at the time, while their parents are way over on the other side of the site oblivious. I'm all for kids enjoying their hols (I'm a TA so work with children) but parents need to set some boundaries, cutting through others pitches is a big no-no I'm afraid!

So, for us, the way to go may be adult only sites. We did try this last year and were most impressed. While we will still visit our favourite family site I do think our preferences are changing.

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greenscooby

25/5/2016 at 4:30pm
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TraceyD, I am so with you on children coming up to stroke the dog without asking, even though our dog loves the attention I always politely say no even when asked, if the parents were there at the same time then it maybe a yes.

We have brought our 6yo up to know that she is not allowed on anybody else's 'piece of grass' (unless she has been invited of course) as they have paid for it, not us, and she has enough room on 'our piece of grass'

Last year we had children just walking into our tent and making themselves at home, like I said in an earlier post, we are friendly, but not that friendly just to accept children wandering in on they're own accord, a polite word with the parents sorted this very quickly and it turned out we spent some quality time with them all.

Scooby.

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