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WOW i am so glad i started this thread,,,,i feel MUCH better now, there are others out there like me !!!!

 THE CALENDAR,,,, LUXURY CARAVAN CALENDAR 2010

,for everyone who might be interested is from the Transglobal Emporium, the telephone number on the back of the calendar is 01223 316206 or www.transglobal-emporium.com its really funny, it has handy hints and tips on each page too, like July; count jigsaw pieces before starting, sept; reverse up to shop window to check your lights, Nov; remove van from drive due to fireworks

.This is what it says on the front:

"For the daring holiday goer, with its cantankerous cupboards, short fused shower unit, the beleaguered tourist may well seek solace in the chemical toilet,,,,beware the creature from the black lagoon ,,,,never the same after an angry onboard bank holiday blow back incident "

I definately have your problem, none of my work colleagues are caravanners or tenters, nor my friends my own age. Being the grand old age of 21 and starting towing at 17 I have always been very much the outsider of the group. Still have never looked back and have met some good friends out on site and even celebrated my 21st on site (they decorated my caravan up whilst I had nipped back to work and did a surprise party). And my thoughts are what a fantastic hobby we all have, Absolutely fabulous,

None of our friends camp - they just smile sympathetically when I talk about it.  Even my grown up kids yawn if I mention it.

They don't know what they're missing out on, the freedom &  relaxing in the fresh air (essential if a person works where my husband works)

I would like to camp with friends, so we're hopefully going on some DA meets and also got a UKCS meet lined up (Gundrys farm).  But even on our own we always make friends with our camping neighbours, even if we dont meet them again its a pleasure to have met them

Homebird

I am lucky, the girls at work all love the idea of camping even thought hey dont do it. I have an excelent group of friends with children who all camp and we all have several weekends as groups a year. I have another few friends who dont have kids and they just accept we all "do" different holidays.

My sister on the other hand thinks I am mad and cant contemplate the whole thing. Her hubby and son love to come and she says she will stay in a b abd b nearby. That said she spends more in one week in a cottage than we do for 2 weeks on site and she has an only child to amuse 24/7 which usually ends in her being more stressed. Dont have that trouble on site, I can usually gurantee within the first day my girls have made some friends and I have had a cuppa with another mum.  Spare me the airports/ferries/ using other peoples plates etc in a cottage and give me my van anyday. 

'I have a colleague who thinks she is a bit posh who once announced - a caravan!  I've never met anyone who actually owned a caravan!  How quaint.'

Sounds like my stuck up sister-in-law.Travels to exotic places at least three times a year and thinks she is better than anybody else on our side of the family.She's from Essex and we are from that common place up north and talk with a common accent.

Well I wouldn't swap places with her for all the tea in China(she's been three times there!!). I love the beauty of our British Isles and our caravan enables us to visit places we have never been to before.I know where I would rather be.

I've many friends who don't understand our love of our caravan holidays. One of them looks forward to going to Egypt every year yet comes back complaining about the heat. many of them don't understand me when I tell them I prefer sleeping in my own bed, eating from my own plate & drinking from my own cup. I don't want to sit in an airport for hours, fly off to places where it's often too hot, I can't understand the language, often wouldn't be able to drink the water or eat freely without risking having to spend a lot of my holiday in the small room.

It's down to personal choice at the end of the day, having a caravan has been the only way we'd get a holiday considering we've got four children. Thankfully the kids aged 20 down to 14 still love caravan holidays as much as we do & all come with us.

The way I see it is simple, there's a lot of this country I won't live long enough to see  & I hope our friends continue to enjoy their costly foreign travel, because I don't want it.

BB