This practice winds me up big time and some people walk right under your window. What we do now is tap the window and if the look smile with a big wave....
Only this weekend we sat and watched as 3 kids ride bikes at the back of a motorhome at 10pm when nearly dark. One of the kids actally came off his bike which ended under the motorhome. Lets just say all hell let loose....
What this thread shows perhaps is that we all have different notions of what is polite and what is acceptable. I live in a crowded area and I am a tad anti-social when on holiday - I work with people all day and I like to escape. I loathe people getting too close to my van and I really don't appreciate kids around my van or shrieking and playing.
As I like my privacy I try to respect others privacy too and I avoid walking near pitches. We had a dilemma last week at Ravenglass because our elderly dogs really struggled with the gravel path to get to the dog walk. We opted in the end to walk along the side of the site by the hedge, between the backs of some caravans and the hedge. As far as I am concerned we were a good distance away from the backs of the vans and not near awnings. Any vans close to the hedge we then walked through to get back onto the path.
In this case the pitches were vague because you had the hard standing bit, then grass each side. I considered the grass in front of the hard standing to be 'private' for those on that pitch. The bit behind was a kind of no man's land and as far as I could see unused on all the pitches.
I didn't like doing it but for once a day to enable my dogs to get to the dog walk I felt it was OK. I would have hated to get a rude or irate response because in the end probably most of us are just doing our best to be considerate, very few people as far as I can see are deliberately anti-social. Inconsiderate at times, possibly, but with camping I've only once witnessed really asbo-worthy behaviour.
I was at Blackmore CC site last week end , and the person next to us took there awning down , a few hours later an outfit came across there hardstanding and skimming the back of our van , instead of going further on and taking the right course to the grass pitches , and they were doing about 30 MPH instead 5 MPH , the best bit was our neighbours dog was stretched on the grass earlier , it was a good job he moved
so kids are aloud a holiday as long as they dont shreik or play if some people are so anti kids why dont they go to adult only sites and as for invading your space the only space you have hired is the area your van covers so is it not polite to invade someones space or is it ok when your with the dog
Quote: Originally posted by Khanny on 24/7/2009
so kids are aloud a holiday as long as they dont shreik or play if some people are so anti kids why dont they go to adult only sites and as for invading your space the only space you have hired is the area your van covers so is it not polite to invade someones space or is it ok when your with the dog
Hmm, if that is directed at me, why should I stay on an adults-only site because some people think it's OK to let their kids play around vans and make a lot of noise? Isn't that what play areas are for? If you choose to have kids put up with the noise, I choose not to so I won't thanks all the same. If for some reason you want kids to play outside of the play area let them play outside your own unit not send them off to play round other peoples', surely that is the considerate thing to do?
And as for invading people's pitches, if you are only entitled to your own pitch then how do you get there, fly? You're saying that every single blade of grass therefore is hired by somebody so stay off it? Oh, unless it's for your kids to run around and scream on of course.
So basically the opinion of UKCS is that all verges, patches of grass, hedging and floral areas, any hint of space anywhere is pegged out and lineated and designated so keep off my land? We should stick to regimented roads, pathways and our own pitches, walk head down, not looking at anyone, don't make eye contact and put up with screaming kids because otherwise we are somehow anti-social.
And I took up camping to enjoy the outdoors with likeminded people. Lovely.
Quote: Originally posted by mike.wilkinson on 16/7/2009
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>i haven't read all the replies so sorry if this has been said but i don't walk on other pitches and i don't want any one on mine its called good manners.<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>now what really p****s me off are these continental vans with the door on the wrong side, had one next to me all last week your privacy is really up the spout when every time they go in or out there door they are only feet from your open awning.i do expect a certain level of privacy on a campsite that's why showers and toilets have cubicles with doors.<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>mike
Its easy to rectify with continental vans, just park them the other way round - no problem we do all the time in the UK, all you have to do is ask we just do it automatically now so save encroaching on the next door pitch especially as we have two young children and two dogs - I imagine we must be some campers worst nightmare lol!
Yep agree above comment but i'll add this.We dont really want to look into your open awning either so pitch nose first to avoid this.Sorry if our continental van offends you.I must buy british next time.
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