| How to approach caravanists and camper w@nkers? 05:56 - Jan 19 with 3762 views | bluelagos |
Sat in a long line of car drivers stuck behind a caravan for 15 mins earlier doing at least 20 under the limit. Lovely twisties too.
When the caravanist eventually pulled over I didn't know whether to give him a thumbs up or some free advice on how to shake coffee beans.
Thoughts from the Twtd hive?
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:01 - Jan 19 with 284 views | WeWereZombies |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 19:24 - Jan 19 by DJR |
Presumably salted porridge made with water, and with a dash of milk and sugar on top, just like my mother made it.
As aside, about 40 years ago, a couple of friends and I did what much of what has in recent years become the rather trendy North Coast 500. We had tents and stayed in campsites, and in those days there wasn't that much in the way of traffic, even in August. [Post edited 19 Jan 19:28]
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Sugar ? Milk ? Ya daft softy...
One of my abiding memories is spending Hogmany in Aviemore (1979 or 1980) and seeing people camping (I stayed in the couth Hostel, I know - daft softy - but I got to go cross country skiing with Cameron M<Neish, so there) and snow banked up against the sides of the wee ridge tents as an extra layer of insulation. Not quite so many of those bog standard camp sites these days but the Right to Roam has opened things up more for wild camping (which should always be done responsibly, leave no litter p!ss well away from water courses, bury your poo etc. etc.) [Post edited 19 Jan 22:09]
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:17 - Jan 19 with 269 views | bluelagos |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:01 - Jan 19 by WeWereZombies |
Sugar ? Milk ? Ya daft softy...
One of my abiding memories is spending Hogmany in Aviemore (1979 or 1980) and seeing people camping (I stayed in the couth Hostel, I know - daft softy - but I got to go cross country skiing with Cameron M<Neish, so there) and snow banked up against the sides of the wee ridge tents as an extra layer of insulation. Not quite so many of those bog standard camp sites these days but the Right to Roam has opened things up more for wild camping (which should always be done responsibly, leave no litter p!ss well away from water courses, bury your poo etc. etc.) [Post edited 19 Jan 22:09]
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At the start of one overland trip through the Kalahari (as you do) the tour leader explained the location on the hippy truck of a small trowel, for exclusive use when doing no 2s out in the bush.
He also emphasised it was to dig a hole and bury it, not as a previous tourer had done who grabbed the trowel, disappeared and then reappeared with the trowel holding the turd she'd just deposited expecting him to find a home for it.
Always say if you've not had an outside dump, you've not properly travelled... | |
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:49 - Jan 19 with 239 views | DJR |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:01 - Jan 19 by WeWereZombies |
Sugar ? Milk ? Ya daft softy...
One of my abiding memories is spending Hogmany in Aviemore (1979 or 1980) and seeing people camping (I stayed in the couth Hostel, I know - daft softy - but I got to go cross country skiing with Cameron M<Neish, so there) and snow banked up against the sides of the wee ridge tents as an extra layer of insulation. Not quite so many of those bog standard camp sites these days but the Right to Roam has opened things up more for wild camping (which should always be done responsibly, leave no litter p!ss well away from water courses, bury your poo etc. etc.) [Post edited 19 Jan 22:09]
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What I want to know is, when did swimming in rivers, lakes and deserted coastal areas, which I have done since childhood, become wild swimming?
Indeed, I remember taking a dip many years ago on a couple of the glorious, sandy Sutherland beaches with not a soul in sight. They might look like the Med but boy is the water cold. |  | | |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:20 - Jan 19 with 223 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 14:42 - Jan 19 by WeWereZombies |
That is disgusting, we have had problems locally with toilet cassettes being emptied in the loos at the community hall, which has to use a septic tank so the presence of chemical toilet waste has a financial effect and is expressly against the notices posted there, but to just dump the waste in open country is indefensible. |
I'm old school....
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:25 - Jan 19 with 219 views | bluelagos |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:20 - Jan 19 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I'm old school....
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And for the full on environmentally friendly experience, leaves to wipe yer bum? We've all been there 🙄 | |
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:27 - Jan 19 with 216 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:17 - Jan 19 by bluelagos |
At the start of one overland trip through the Kalahari (as you do) the tour leader explained the location on the hippy truck of a small trowel, for exclusive use when doing no 2s out in the bush.
He also emphasised it was to dig a hole and bury it, not as a previous tourer had done who grabbed the trowel, disappeared and then reappeared with the trowel holding the turd she'd just deposited expecting him to find a home for it.
Always say if you've not had an outside dump, you've not properly travelled... |
Oh I see you covered it, well Laggers what a can of worms you opened here! | |
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:42 - Jan 19 with 199 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 19:17 - Jan 19 by bluelagos |
Doing the coast to coast next Sept with some friends. We are kind of cheating, hiring cottages as a base and doing a car shuttle each day.
Would love to do one where they move yer luggage and you stay at B&Bs....checked packhorse and Macpack and it's 3k on a single basis. Our way is £750 (plus the petrol) - shame am too old to carry all me gear and camp...
Kids, don't wait til youse an old fart like I did... |
I did it the same way 15 years ago. Harboured ideas of doing it again with packhorse, think I’ll scratch that at those prices! |  |
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:50 - Jan 19 with 185 views | bluelagos |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:27 - Jan 19 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Oh I see you covered it, well Laggers what a can of worms you opened here! |
Next time we meet up, remind me to tell you the story of the emergency deposit I made crossing the Altiplano in Peru. Not suitable for a family forum. | |
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:56 - Jan 19 with 182 views | bluelagos |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:42 - Jan 19 by WestStanderLaLaLa |
I did it the same way 15 years ago. Harboured ideas of doing it again with packhorse, think I’ll scratch that at those prices! |
Around 2k if you find someone to room with. The.other way is to book all the accomodation yourself, but the tour companies book out much of the accomodation so it's very hard.
Reckon the c2c is deffo the hardest logistically simply cos it's the most popular. Bloody Wainwright. | |
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| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 21:58 - Jan 19 with 180 views | WeWereZombies |
| How to approach caravanists and camper van w@nkers (ancient VWs excepted) ? on 20:49 - Jan 19 by DJR |
What I want to know is, when did swimming in rivers, lakes and deserted coastal areas, which I have done since childhood, become wild swimming?
Indeed, I remember taking a dip many years ago on a couple of the glorious, sandy Sutherland beaches with not a soul in sight. They might look like the Med but boy is the water cold. |
This is where I am really soft, I like to go to the pool in Portree for my fifty lengths, spaced out with a quarter of an hour in the sauna and a quarter of an hour in the steam room. The beaches up in Sutherland, and over on Harris, are truly beautiful though. | |
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