I am sat on my patio in 26 degrees of heat :lol: very happy ,it always rains in Wales , worked there for 2 years reckon we had 5 dry days .

Rob.

 

I'm hiding indoors at 24c. because it's 30c ouside. Whew you can keep the heat.

Ray.

 

Love it , better than cold and rain anyday .

Rob.

 

what rain? warm & sticky here, too hot to clean the windows. :roll:

at least you're away in the MH - our daughter & family have borrowed ours - they were moaning about sites that have pitches only big enough to park the MH and get the wind out open. Tuggers leaving cars all over the place :roll:

 

Sat inside at the moment as it's 37 in the shade here and much too hot to be outside working!

 

It's long been a theory of mine that retail and supermarket car parks are designed by a carefully selected bunch of drunks and halfwits. Now I'm beginning to suspect that some of the above have been moonlighting and getting various design work connected with caravan sites.

There are the shower cubicles with one, tiny, hook for all your clothes - and towel, virtually guaranteeing that something will fall off and get wet.

The same cubicles with only the floor to put your footwear on, thus ensuring (due to the shortish shower curtain) that your socks, which you carefully put inside your shoes, are now nicely soaked.

The waste water disposal point which requires you to lift a full Wastemaster to waist height, or higher, in order to empty it.

I'm sitting on a wet site in Wales whiling away the time until the rain stops and I can walk the dog. Sad isn't it? So I won't go on dear reader but, perhaps, you can add to the list above.

Showers?

Wear only one garment, preferably just wrap your towel round your waste. Wear flip-flops or crocs and keep them on in the shower. Might stop you catching a foot disease too. Never heard of anyone wearing socks to the shower.
You need to re-think your modus operandi

 

Rain?

Just back from a lovely swim in the sea in warm and sunny Narfook.



Pete

 

I find that if I undress in the bathroom I can throw my clothes into the laundry basket and step straight into the shower cubicle and close the door. I could hang them on any of the four hangers I can reach from there. My shoes are fine on the bathroom floor as the cubicle doesn't leak.

When I get out of the shower I dry off and get dressed in the clean clothes I have put ready and waiting on the end of the bed.

I have never been in a camp site shower, don't fancy using shared facilities when I have my own in the van. I have only ever been on two camp site and didn't like them, Alan.

 

It's long been a theory of mine that retail and supermarket car parks are designed by a carefully selected bunch of drunks and halfwits. Now I'm beginning to suspect that some of the above have been moonlighting and getting various design work connected with caravan sites.

There are the shower cubicles with one, tiny, hook for all your clothes - and towel, virtually guaranteeing that something will fall off and get wet.

The same cubicles with only the floor to put your footwear on, thus ensuring (due to the shortish shower curtain) that your socks, which you carefully put inside your shoes, are now nicely soaked.

The waste water disposal point which requires you to lift a full Wastemaster to waist height, or higher, in order to empty it.

I'm sitting on a wet site in Wales whiling away the time until the rain stops and I can walk the dog. Sad isn't it? So I won't go on dear reader but, perhaps, you can add to the list above.

Showers?

Wear only one garment, preferably just wrap your towel round your waste. Wear flip-flops or crocs and keep them on in the shower. Might stop you catching a foot disease too. Never heard of anyone wearing socks to the shower.
You need to re-think your modus operandi

not very practical in the depth of winter, though? 8)

 

It's long been a theory of mine that retail and supermarket car parks are designed by a carefully selected bunch of drunks and halfwits. Now I'm beginning to suspect that some of the above have been moonlighting and getting various design work connected with caravan sites.

There are the shower cubicles with one, tiny, hook for all your clothes - and towel, virtually guaranteeing that something will fall off and get wet.

The same cubicles with only the floor to put your footwear on, thus ensuring (due to the shortish shower curtain) that your socks, which you carefully put inside your shoes, are now nicely soaked.

The waste water disposal point which requires you to lift a full Wastemaster to waist height, or higher, in order to empty it.

I'm sitting on a wet site in Wales whiling away the time until the rain stops and I can walk the dog. Sad isn't it? So I won't go on dear reader but, perhaps, you can add to the list above.

Showers?

Wear only one garment, preferably just wrap your towel round your waste. Wear flip-flops or crocs and keep them on in the shower. Might stop you catching a foot disease too. Never heard of anyone wearing socks to the shower.
You need to re-think your modus operandi

not very practical in the depth of winter, though? 8)

easy - just wait till Spring for the first shower of the year :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Mrs E. hates campsite showers. Nearly all of them are fixed overhead, about 8 foot high. You have to be a contortionist or stand on your head to rinse the necessary bits. You end up wasting a lot of water trying to rinse properly. It's particularly difficult if you're short, or a kid, or disabled in any way.

Hand held showers are much more efficient. Campsites would save a fortune in water and heating if all showers were hand held. So why aren't they?

 

not very practical in the depth of winter, though?

Wimp. :lol:

Ian

 

There are the shower cubicles with one, tiny, hook for all your clothes - and towel, virtually guaranteeing that something will fall off and get wet.

Don't bother with showering, all that rain makes ideal conditions for having a roll in the grass.

The waste water disposal point which requires you to lift a full Wastemaster to waist height, or higher, in order to empty it.

Again, don't bother with the waste disposal point - all that rain makes ideal conditions for hiding you emptied waste on your pitch.

And before anyone jumps on my head - joking :lol:

 

not very practical in the depth of winter, though?

Wimp. :lol:

Ian

definitely!

 

big blue ikea bag - hang it on the single hook and transfer clothes, towel and other kit in and out as need

i know a woman who also uses the bags for her kids to stand in to get changed in campsite showers

wear crocs/flip flops

ta da! 8)

 

Remus

a Towelling dressing gown

Strip off, gown on, towel for a rough dry, shower and back to the van to get dressed in comfort

We always carry one, hangs in the bathroom out of the way and works fine in the van shower as well

Just hold the corner across so as not to shock fellow campers on the way to the shower and back :lol: :lol:

Aldra

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Did you expect sympathy on here!!

Stuff campsites. Just don't use them and you cant be disappointed!

Anywhere showering is for wimps!

Here I am getting clean this afternoon in a lake up an Alp at 7000ft

Sorry.

 

You are such a show off (sigh)

Aldra :lol:

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Did you expect sympathy on here!!

Stuff campsites. Just don't use them and you cant be disappointed!

Anywhere showering is for wimps!

Here I am getting clean this afternoon in a lake up an Alp at 7000ft

Sorry.

So you don't use campsites ? so when you dispose of your toilet waste , rubbish, black waste water ,I assume legally , some body else picks up the dispoasal bill ?great !! for Gods sake don't come to our resort as we see enough of Freeloaders now you are not welcome .

Tony A.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Did you expect sympathy on here!!

Stuff campsites. Just don't use them and you cant be disappointed!

Anywhere showering is for wimps!

Here I am getting clean this afternoon in a lake up an Alp at 7000ft

Sorry.

So you don't use campsites ? so when you dispose of your toilet waste , rubbish, black waste water ,I assume legally , some body else picks up the dispoasal bill ?great !! for Gods sake don't come to our resort as we see enough of Freeloaders now you are not welcome .

Tony A.

Ooooooh! Sorry. Didnt mean to upset anyone. Just my humour Im afraid. I appreciate my throwaway comments can often probably be annoying.

However. Seeing as you ask. No, I dont use campsites unless I absolutely have no other option but Im happy to pay for disposal of my waste at a designated place. More than likely this will be an Aire, Sosta etc or in the UK a CL or heaven forbid a campsite or if its possible a public loo, which I will leave cleaner than before I left. Just how does that make me a freeloader. Ive spent about £3500 locally on this trip so far. Somebody must be benefiting from that surely?

Im sorry Im not welcome in your "resort". Im assuming its in Suffolk. I think we'll be ok though. Currently parked 6000ft up in the French Alps with about ten other vans for free. Locals seem pretty welcoming though.

 

Not liking camp sites does not equal free loading Tony, it's just a personal preference.

We are currently parked in a clearing in some woods near a lake at a golf resort. The golf club is perfectly happy to have us, even to the point of arranging water and electricity and other facilities for us. We spend plenty of money here and that is welcomed.

We find the same attitude pretty much everywhere we go.

If Barry is unwelcome at your resort (?) then I guess so am I but I won't worry because there are plenty of places we like where we are welcome.

Generally resorts don't hold any appeal for me. Personal preference again, Alan.

 

I think there are a large number of us who prefer not to use camp-sites when possible

and an equally large number who prefer camp-sites

Unless they are very small and fairly secluded campsites hold no appeal for me but on trips into unknown areas they are very useful

There are now so many places where you can dispose of waste for a fee that it is not really a problem except here in Britain

We seem to use a combination of aires, stellplatz etc and campsites depending on availability in the country we are travelling as I guess most people do.

Occasionally we wild camp and would do more if we knew of more suitable places As we travel off season there are places to stay that would not be possible in high seaon

Where ever we stay we spend money in the local area

Aldra

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Did you expect sympathy on here!!

Stuff campsites. Just don't use them and you cant be disappointed!

Anywhere showering is for wimps!

Here I am getting clean this afternoon in a lake up an Alp at 7000ft

Sorry.

So you don't use campsites ? so when you dispose of your toilet waste , rubbish, black waste water ,I assume legally , some body else picks up the disposal bill ?great !! for Gods sake don't come to our resort as we see enough of Freeloaders now you are not welcome .

Tony A.

I also prefer to wild camp for many reasons, including avoiding objectionable neighbours.

I associate myself with the comments from 'erneboy', 'aldra' and 'barryd'

I find some of your arguments and attitudes quite extraordinary.

You seem to be unaware that many of us use the daytime facilities of campsites, with permission, for which there might be a fee - the last, privately owned, one I used said just put something in the charity box, which I did.

As for somebody else picking up the disposal bill and 'our resort', I would make two points:-

A If it is at a paid for facility it is presumably in the price. If at a public facility remember that all local authorities get subsidised by central government to whom I pay my tax and while I am not using the subsidised facilities in my local authority area I am not benefiting, so it is a transfer of use. Based on the same argument it is not 'your' resort, as it is partially paid for by the whole population.

B If you use a public toilet, on a Service Area or anywhere else, without paying, or drive down the lit street of a town where you do not pay Council Tax, do you consider yourself a Freeloader? (did not realise the word warranted upper case).

As for taking it upon yourself to declare we 'are not welcome', did you consult your fellow residents? If not I consider your statement to be somewhat dictatorial.

I do not know where you live and do not care, but I shall continue to exercise my right of free passage throughout the Kingdom, 'without let nor hindrance'.

Geoff

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Did you expect sympathy on here!!

Stuff campsites. Just don't use them and you cant be disappointed!

Anywhere showering is for wimps!

Here I am getting clean this afternoon in a lake up an Alp at 7000ft

Sorry.

So you don't use campsites ? so when you dispose of your toilet waste , rubbish, black waste water ,I assume legally , some body else picks up the dispoasal bill ?great !! for Gods sake don't come to our resort as we see enough of Freeloaders now you are not welcome .

Tony A.

What showers do you have in your "resort", Tony A? I bet they are those terrible fixed overhead ones! The ones we won't use, despite the fact we "freeloaders" have already paid for them! And despite the fact you, presumably a site owner, are paying for all the wasted water and heating these showers represent, not to mention the cost of this waste to the environment.

 

Everyone will be pleased to know I had a proper shower this morning. In the van.

Currently doing some more freeloading up yet another mountain in Haut Alps wherever that is.