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While I sympathise with you Chrisdy it is only ONCE a year. Try living in the SE near the Channel Ports and you would have to get used to great volumes of traffic and all that goes with it!
While I sympathise with you Chrisdy it is only ONCE a year. Try living in the SE near the Channel Ports and you would have to get used to great volumes of traffic and all that goes with it!
The difference is that I chose to live in Blandford precisely because it is not overrun with traffic. When the Steam Fair was held at Stourpaine, just to the north of the town along the upper Shaftsbury road, there was an alternative route to Shaftsbury so there was little problem with normal traffic. However, blocking the main route to Salisbury causes complete chaos of the traffic over the weekend (and sometimes Friday as well) such that residents struggle to get anywhere at all. Alternative routes take you miles out of your way, assuming you can actually get out of your driveway.
However, since you are coming, I hope you enjoy the show and avoid the worst of the traffic.
Got back home this evening after a good trip to the GDSF on Saturday, Monkey World on Sunday and the Swanage Railway today.
Must admit it took us nearly an hour to get into the show from the New Forest DA THS at Pimperne on Saturday where we stayed for two nights but then we are used to such traffic coming from where we do! (Part of the M20 closed today following a lorry fire on it). Thanks by the way to any NF C&CC DA members reading this-very good organization of the THS again and the concessions on the tickets to the show well worth having! Enjoyed the show and thought it was bigger than last year's; perhaps it was because this year was its 40th anniversary.
Monkey World well worth a visit and much better value than Drusillas we visited recently. At least some of the entrance fee charged goes towards rescuing monkeys from laboratories and entertainers who use them as part of their props.
The Swanage Railway, well my son-in-law the family's railway enthusiast, was beside himself today! Must admit it was well worth going along using the Park and Ride at Norden and travelling to Swanage station that is within nearly a stone's throw of the beach. Weather was good, a bit windy but then we were by the seaside and the fish and chips we ate there excellent.! At least the rain that had been forecast held off.
In all a good few days away apart from the journey home and the dreaded M25 and dare I say it the lorries passing us and travelling side by side with others on much of the three lane sections when we were doing 65MPH in places (Thought they had 'limiters' or whatever they are called restricting them to 62MPH ?).
NO, NO, NO, - You do NOT want to go to the Dorset Steam Fair - keep repeating that to yourself every hour until the urge goes away.
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I live about a mile from the site and it is the biggest pain of the year. The Salisbury Road is blocked for about a week, we have people who ordinarily would be able to use a roundabout, but during the Steam Fair week, they insist on blocking the exits due to the traffic jams, such that even if your exit road is clear you can't even get onto the roundabout. That is not to mention the legion of "travellers" that descend on the town, parking where they feel like and leaving huge volumes of rubbish behind which we have to pay to have removed. The sooner the Steam Fair goes elsewhere the better.
Oooooh, I do feel better now, I'll think I'll go and have a lie down........(preferably until it's over!!)
but the show is brilliant! You soooo lucky its right on your doorstep!
If you arrive the day b4 it starts there are no long lines of traffic to get in and you get a pitch only a few yards from the entrance. the dancing girls are are are are err very good!!! and scantily clad at times too..
the smell of wood and coal burning drifts for miles..and the funfair lights the skies....great stuff!
I think its a shame so many miss it...
Obviously not much use for this year as it's now been and gone (and it was a fantastic event - can't wait for next year) but we had left it too late to book camping and went anyway as I read on the website that parking was allowed in the car parks overnight. When we arrived we were directed to an area above the car parks with loads of space and told to pitch wherever we liked. The view was fantastic and we had loads more space than the pre-booked camping which looked a little cramped. There were loo's, water and waste bins provided - cost £15 per night but worth it.
If you leave it till the last minute you can also keep an eye on the weather forecast!
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