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I usually take peoples envious looks with a pinch of salt!

 well its not their fault they went and bought a tin tent or a static instead of a tent! anyway cant be mistaken for a Gipsy in a tent either so its smiles all round for tents isnt it.

To be fair the majority of caravanners are friendly folk.  Can remember one weekend we went away - a caravanner came over to see if I needed help putting it up, and the following morning as I was cooking the porridge while holding a brolly over my head, another caravanner sent over a pot of tea and some sausages and toast.
Then a different time a chap came over and appologised most perfusely for not coming over before, but his wife had just realised that the reason I was carrying stuff from the trailer to my pitch further down the field was probably that I was stuck in the mud.   He they used his 4x4 to tow the car out and then the trailer.  (Long story!)

These people will be the same in other walks of life as well - my wallpaper cost so much per roll, and you've only got anaglypter on your walls - poor you.    And as for the muddy handprints on your paintwork, where you kids have come in from the garden after having fun - well you really must be low life.

after years of being a single parent and not being able to afford a holiday, then getting married and having a couple more kids and bigger mortgage but managing to afford once a year at butlins, now my kids are all at school and im earning too (my own business) we brought a tent and plan to see lots of the country and spend as much time away in our tent as possible... i thought i was posh and come up in the world!!

camping is not for wimps, its for the free spirited, adventurous, down-to-earth people people who know the value of life beyond their material possesions

Quote: Originally posted by crystal jo on 20/2/2006

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camping is not for wimps, its for the free spirited, adventurous, down-to-earth people people who know the value of life beyond their material possesions

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Quote: Originally posted by CamperPete on 20/2/2006

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Quote: Originally posted by crystal jo on 20/2/2006

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camping is not for wimps, its for the free spirited, adventurous, down-to-earth people people who know the value of life beyond their material possesions

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Er, as my tent is made of a material then does that make it one of my material possesions?

hahaha!

Quote: Originally posted by sandra6 on 18/2/2006

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 we went camping for 8 years before buying a caravan. we once set up tent & sat back watching folk, as you do, a tourer parked up in front of us & set up, then out came a sheepskin rug for under their table & a candelarbra on table (honest) we nearly fell off our chairs laughing, we couldent beleive our eyes, snobs or what,

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We have certainly giggled at caravanners with a vase of (real) flowers on the table.  Makes you wonder why they bother or has been said elsewhere, why not book into the Hilton?

I am a proud tenter.  I feel a bit smug when I consider the fact that at the end of a camping trip I can chuck all my rig in the boot of the car and drive home at a respectable speed without clogging the roads...

If those people are friendly and help other people in case of e.g. wind trouble on the campsite in my view they are OK.

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Totally agree. Each to their own with their bits and bobs if it makes them feel happy. Does that mean I can have my lamp in my camper van? lol

J

Candelarbra . . . . . why not?  Now that appeals to my sense of  humour.

I wonder if I can get one to match the napkin rings?

Heh - smile whay don't yah!

Hazel

She just wanted a gnome from home.

Hazel

Quote: Originally posted by CarrandHazel on 22/2/2006

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She just wanted a gnome from home.

Hazel

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Ok ok ok......I apologise!  I drive an old Nissan Serena, pull a home made trailor with the kiddies bikes strapped to the top.  The comments about poor campers are directed at me arent they!      

Yours Sincerely

Steptoe (and twin sons)