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Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 14/3/2012

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I am turning into a grumpy old woman for not wanting to share my time with other people.

Getting up and be ready for a coffee get-together at 10:00h in the morning to decide what to do for the day ahead?

That's the time I usually start thinking about crawling out of bed!

DK

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I would suggest that if you don't want to share time with other people then you don't go on a 'meet'.

That is where my views seem to differ from other people who go on meets and perhaps why I am not a great lover of large meets.

Of the meets I have been on, everybody clears off to do their own thing during the day and a solo camper is left on his/her own...so not much point in being at a meet really except for the evening get together which is usually just on the one evening, Saturday night, if it is a weekend meet. The first night everybody is too busy setting up camp and having a meal before an early night.

I can understand this if it is a family meet because families tend to stick together and do their own thing and don't want a solo camper, who is a total stranger to them at that point, tagging along to the beach or a family picnic or wherever.

However, one would think that on a solo meet everyone would get together in the morning as suggested and decide if they want to do anything together as a group. Those that wish to go their own way can, and those who wish to join in a trip somewhere do so, but everyone should at least be given the opportunity to join in, rather than just being ignored or left to their own devices as seems to happen on many meets.

The best meets I have been on are those where only half a dozen or less turn up. Then they all decide together what they want to do for the day. They don't just clear off in ones and twos leaving others to fend for themselves and feeling left out...and if the organiser clears off and does his or her own thing then there simply isn't any 'meet' really.

Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 14/3/2012

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Tigermouse,

That was a tongue in cheek comment directed at the Phoenix Club, as that's what I remember reading from their website.

DK

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Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 14/3/2012

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I have come to accept that I may never find another compatible travelling companion like my late partner.

DK

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Just because a group arranges a time to meet up at the beginning of the day for a cuppa and a natter and to discuss where everyone wants to go or what they may want to do throughout the day, doesn't mean anyone is committed to attending or taking part in any group activities or trips that they may decide on.

Everyone is free to choose but at least the opportunity is there for people to go out together as a group and socialise, whether it is a group trip to the beach or some other attraction or simply to meet up somewhere for lunch.

The point is they are socialising as a group and that, to me, is what a meet is all about...socialising and doing things together, be it that some may not want to join in and that is their choice. 

That is why I say I seem to have a different idea of what a meet is all about. I mean, what is the attraction if everyone who goes there wants to be alone all day long and the only time they actually 'meet' as such is the Saturday night party? Might as well just turn up for the Saturday night's booze up and then go home again...with a sore head