Keep net actually bulging now.
eagerbeaver:
Keep net actually bulging now.
Your taking too many pinks and not enough blue ones,
better go and see The Doc again 
The Doctor says im not allowed to see him any more.
Last time I saw him,i prescribed him some skittles and made a catapult out of his stethoscope.
He says I need to see a ’ different type of Doctor '. Does anyone know what he means?..
windrush:
I have caravanned for 20+ years, just returned on Sunday from 10 days in Dumfries and we had a week in Yorkshire at New Year. Usually have around three months away in it each year (not all at once of course!) as I exhibit vintage machinery at steam ralies etc and, saddo that I am, have held many commitee positions over the years including chairman and treasurer of various different clubs. Never ever had a hotel holiday, for forty years it has always been in either a frame tent, trailer tent, campervan or a wobbly box and it suits us fine. The dog and parrot go with us as well! Hoping to continue doing it though the missus isn’t too well nowadays but there are plenty of trips planned already haha.Don’t knock it until you try it…
Pete.
Pete
Do you do Strumpshaw?
matamoros:
Don’t think the all inclusive package holiday sun seeking types will ever understand why some people can enjoy holidaying in a tin box
Yeh, that’s about it in a nutshell mate…nuff said…thanks and goodnight 
I’ve never owned nor used a caravan and have in the past being as annoyed as the next man about being stuck behind one going stupidly slow. However now that I’ve been away from England for six years and realise that I really do miss a lot about the place as I’ve always being very interested in historical things for example since being a small child so the idea of having accommodating you can move about, but then drop and drive around in your own car does quite appeal actually. I wouldn’t bother over here as everything is so bloody far apart that I’d have no interest in driving to places but in the UK and Europe for that matter things are so close, and hotel accommodation can be very expensive so it’d be a good way to tour around and see a lot. Here, more so in the US rather than in Canada, hotels are cheap but you have to drive days on end just to get anywhere.
I certainly wouldn’t be interested in just going to a boring camp site and sitting there for a week, idea however of hooking up the caravan and driving to somewhere outside Paris, dropping the caravan at a campsite for a day or two and touring Paris and its surrounds, before moving on to northern Italy and doing the same, then down to Rome, then up through Austria and Germany and then back to the UK appeals a great deal. Its not the caravan itself that appeals as such, its the freedom to make up the trip as you go along and the pure convenience of being able to drop the box and go off touring “bobtail” as opposed to trying to find somewhere to park a great big camper in a city and worry it’ll be broken in to etc.
Gillberry:
PeteDo you do Strumpshaw?
I haven’t done as yet, I tend to do event’s mostly in Yorkshire/Lancs/Derbys/Oxon/Cheshire. Might do Henham this time depending on the wife’s health, which isn’t good at present.
Pete.
robroy:
matamoros:
Don’t think the all inclusive package holiday sun seeking types will ever understand why some people can enjoy holidaying in a tin boxYeh, that’s about it in a nutshell mate…nuff said…thanks and goodnight
After reading all these positive comments about wobble boxing I just had to go and buy one again yesterday, not a new one but it’s a 2000 Bailey Pageant but been well looked after and like new inside. All I need now is the free time and the weather to use it.
raymundo:
After reading all these positive comments about wobble boxing I just had to go and buy one again yesterday, not a new one but it’s a 2000 Bailey Pageant but been well looked after and like new inside. All I need now is the free time and the weather to use it.
Trade it straight in for a motorhome. Then, when you have a week’s holiday in it, that’s what you get. Rather than 3 days setting-up, 1days’ holiday, and 3 days packing-up 
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Of course, however, you must remember the tuggers’ mantra about having to pack everything away before you can go out in a motorhome. Which takes about 5 minutes if you’re organised.
Pay your money, take your choice, but motorhome every time for me. I’ve lost count of the times me and OH have gone out for the day, found somewhere stunning off-road and stayed the night. Wouldn’t do that in the car, would you? Obviously we miss out on the great “spectacle” of watching an endless stream of tuggers filling their aqua rolls, and HGV “drivers” attempting to reverse a caravan onto a pitch…
I sometimes wonder which is better, a night on a campsite, wobble boxes lined up, surrounded by God-awful screaming kids with lardy half-naked chav parents, swilling ale like it’s going out of fashion, ghastly music at all hours, or a night under the stars in a field, alone and peaceful… No I don’t
Nothing wrong with a Motorhome/Campervan but with two boys (don’t scream!!!) the van is the more practical.
Besides wonder what Motorhome “Raymondo” would have got for the money he paid for the Bailey Pageant??
Not much I would guess!!!
I paid £2500 for the Bailey which included accessories and a super duper caravan mover, not that I have ever had or needed one in the past so that will come off and be sold pdq.
threewheelsonmywagon:
a night on a campsite, wobble boxes lined up, surrounded by God-awful screaming kids with lardy half-naked chav parents, swilling ale like it’s going out of fashion, ghastly music at all hours
The truth comes out, seams about right been driving mini bulkers for a while and lot has been to caravan sites over the past couple months, the above sums them up pretty much perfect. And not a convincing argument as to why 10-20k on a fibreglass box beats 10-20k worth of holidays abroad.
m_attt:
threewheelsonmywagon:
a night on a campsite, wobble boxes lined up, surrounded by God-awful screaming kids with lardy half-naked chav parents, swilling ale like it’s going out of fashion, ghastly music at all hours
Think I have only ever left one campsite because of what you mention and that was the Hagerston Castle one and about 25 years ago. Going by the state of the people they were on benefits and from the Leeds area
m_attt:
threewheelsonmywagon:
a night on a campsite, wobble boxes lined up, surrounded by God-awful screaming kids with lardy half-naked chav parents, swilling ale like it’s going out of fashion, ghastly music at all hoursThe truth comes out, seams about right been driving mini bulkers for a while and lot has been to caravan sites over the past couple months, the above sums them up pretty much perfect. And not a convincing argument as to why 10-20k on a fibreglass box beats 10-20k worth of holidays abroad.
Yeah, cause it is a straight choice between one or the other.
Having a caravan or motorhome doesn’t stop you going abroad for holidays, it just increases the number of holidays you can take.
Doing word search or dot to dot in a portoloo. Eating hotdogs.
Great.
m_attt:
threewheelsonmywagon:
a night on a campsite, wobble boxes lined up, surrounded by God-awful screaming kids with lardy half-naked chav parents, swilling ale like it’s going out of fashion, ghastly music at all hoursThe truth comes out, seams about right been driving mini bulkers for a while and lot has been to caravan sites over the past couple months, the above sums them up pretty much perfect. And not a convincing argument as to why 10-20k on a fibreglass box beats 10-20k worth of holidays abroad.
During my caravan holiday in Scotland, caravan at Loch Lomand as seen in my 1st pic in this thread, but here you’ll obviously see that I just hang around the caravan site, ■■■■■■■ swilling booze…
Well, this is Eilean Donan Castle, up by the Isle Of Skye, one of the filming locations for Highlander, and a decent drive to and from Loch Lomand (East bank) in a BMW 530D…
My caravan cost me a few hundred quid many years ago (bought for a purpose) and suits our needs - take dog away, somewhere to put our head at night - car stands me at less than £0 after it got wrote off by a black cab and I bought it back off the insurance…
As I said though, I still go abroad too, and do hotel holidays in the UK too - ie when I take the missus to the West End to watch a show etc - but I have the choice of the lot, I also do holidays with my mates on motorbikes where we’ll stay in static caravans, B+B’s and even the odd time in a tent when we’re stuck.
Out of all the holidays though, I must admit, I’ve had some crackers with the wobble box, including taking it to Carfest 2 years running, anyone who’s been with a tent will know the hassle of parking your car miles away, carting all your ■■■■ to your ‘pitch’, realising someone’s encroaching your pitch, and the tent next door has a ■■■■■■ crying kid and a Jeremy Kyle candidate couple in it, yet with the wobble box, you drive to your pitch, drop the legs, park car next to wobble box and open the beer from the fridge before heading into the festival.
eagerbeaver:
Doing word search or dot to dot in a portoloo. Eating hotdogs.Great.
I don’t think adults do dot to dot any more, eagerone. Puzzle books have become more sophisticated. Also I don’t think hot dogs are in abundance on a more gentile caravanning site. But I may be wrong.
You are very good at double entendres though!
raymundo’s in pole position for heading north and seeing real peace and beauty around him . the best bit of scotland is north of the kessock bridge . miles of walking ( if it’s not raining too hard ) , stunning scenery and good food in most of the pubs you come across . we go every year , but we have over 400 miles to go before we get to inverness , it’s well worth the effort .
Contraflow:
robroy:
matamoros:
Don’t think the all inclusive package holiday sun seeking types will ever understand why some people can enjoy holidaying in a tin boxYeh, that’s about it in a nutshell mate…nuff said…thanks and goodnight
+1 says it all in a nutshell,nuff said.thead closed,end of story…