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Ebay is great for camping stuff we got most of our gear from there.

Just a few weeks ago we even got a camping toilet for a £5.00 and then, believe it or not, won the full PETT portable toilet system with its own small tent in one of the ukcampsite.co.uk competitions.

For our main hols this year we are going to Yorkshire, cracking looking site -

http://www.sthelenscaravanpark.co.uk/dawnay/Caravan/StHelens.html

Has anyone been to it?

Going to the ukcampsite.co.uk meet at lettershaws at the end of May (first meet) as well as getting away for a few days and meeting some other like minded people, that includes you Lesley as I know from meeting you on another thread that you are also going to that one, it also gis us the chance to check all is ok before going on main hols.

Last May we went to Queensberry Bay in Dumfrieshire, the weather forcast had been looking good right up to the last minute - then gale force winds, on that site there is no way to hide from the wind, ended up sleeping in the car as the wind just pushed the tent down flat.

We were lucky as when the wind died down the tent just popped back up again but there were people that had to leave as trailer tents had poles snap awnings uprooted and all the normal types of wind damage.

There was not much you can do in those circumstances, except we now look for sites that are a little more inland. We look back on it as part of the experience and are just glad we got heavy duty pegs.