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Topic: Do you think we take too much?

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Pennine Plodder

14/6/2006 at 8:18pm
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On most of the French campsites the extra is charged if people try and take the p**s. You are charged for the pitch and as long as it's either one family Ma, Pa and offspring, or 1 tent - to each there own ....... There is no additional charge. Suncanopies/gazebos are now almost a given. As for the UK I bet the same applies if the campsite is reasonable. I have come across sites which thought they could charge for everything eg. no awning or suncanopy and they wanted to charge for a pup tent (small), cheeky sites which charge for an awning/porch in the UK, I still find that damned greedy, we don't go there.

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Pencraig

14/6/2006 at 8:44pm
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It's definately a horses for course thing. Back in my early camping days as a kid I would pack a 6" pile of Punch magazines to keep me amused (how that dates me). These would then be confiscated to level out the parent's camp beds.

Later I was a youth group ridge tent minimalist living out of a rucksack, then a minimalist backpacker.

Now I like the comforts of an airbed, fold up chairs and a wine box. Plus ca change.

But luckily there aren't any tent police to tell us what to do. But I would baulk at seeing someone unload a chest freezer!

Why anyone would want to freeze their chest is beyond me anyway.

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Quote: Originally posted by Pencraig on 14/6/2006

Why anyone would want to freeze their chest is beyond me anyway.

Eric.

Had to put ice on mine, actually, after spent a bit too long in the garden last Saturday - sans shirt!

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