We saw a black family at Beechwood Grange last week. I also met a black man with a white wife in France some years ago who strangely enough said his ancestors came from County Durham, his surname also happened to be Durham.
Jim
------------- Easter-York caravan park
May CC Teasdale
Whit -Fields End Water
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you will see very few Black families or chinese/Asian etc for that matter just as you see none if any Fishing.
have not yet found the reason for it yet as in my sport/pastime (yes I know many wont agree with it) of Hunting. and yet when I go overseas I spend lots of time with Black folk fishing and Indian in the bush/jungle. once asked a Black Guy who fishes regular at Eastbourne and he knows of none also.
shocking as it is it must be that they are made to feel unwelcome. about time it changed. and folk moved away from the 1960s.
Very interesting topic as long as it stays on course.
Although I've seen black families having picnics in the countryside I've never yet seen any actually camping, though I did once see a mixed race family on one site I stayed at. I've often wondered if camping is something that coloured families as a whole just don't do, and maybe any mixed race families who camp do so because it's something the white member has previously done.
------------- Tigermouse
I have a very temperamental personality - 50% temper and 50% mental
We were pitched next to a very nice mixed race family at Broadlands CC site last year, he was Black, his wife of Asian/Chinese origins and their brood of children from theirs and previous relationships.
They were very friendly and came from north London, we swoped notes and information about the area, and told them about the regs for launcing their inflateable boat, and which parts would be safe for such a small boat given the strong tides in some areas. they had a nice 6berth twin axel van and he seamed very knowledgeable in the electronics field, and had set up several Tvs and playstations around the van all run via a satalite dish.
The only other mixed race families we have come across whilst out on sites have been white men with their Asian partners/wives, and very much it seams that the ladies are a lot younger than the gents, probably more so than the 16yr age gap there is between me and my hubby.
If you include the floating caravans of the Broads lol, we do get quite a few Japanese families hiring them out, along with a fair few Americans who are often experianced boaters and some even owners, back home, and have just come over to the Uk to try life afloat on the waterways over here.
Julia
------------- Just love to be out amoungst Nature and Wildlife
Celebrating 37 years of Caravanning in 2019, Recently Considered Retiring, but Totally Addicted for Life!
Thinking about it no I havnt either, wonder why I've never thought about it, when we used to tent we pitched up next to a Chinese family , I remember we all had a joint BBQ
I managed to talk my friend into coming camping last year (last week of the season).
We had a blast and she loved it, wants to do it again and again. I had tried for years to talk her into it. Her reason that she had not was as she felt that it wasn't a person of colours pastime? She even googled it and there are newspaper features on it (along with bowling which we do often).she showed me these as an excuse for about 6 months.
Her husband often fishes - most weekends in the season along with one of their sons my daughter goes with them. She was pleasantly suprised at how friendly the camping experience was. Although found it very amusing at some peoples reaction to her coming out of the tent/going into the loo blocks.( Open mouthed).
I do also know a few other families of colour that camp.....
Hey,if your wife and you enjoy caravanning , what does it matter. just go enjoy yourselves.
------------- DOZY
Life should not be measured by the amount of breaths we take but the moments that take your breath away.
I think it may well be a culture thing as I'm sure my wife wouldn't ever have gone caravaning if it wasn't for me. My wife reckons it all down to black woman and there total obsetion with there hair "camping don't go wid de hair man". My wife is not quite as bad as most but she will keep her hair covered for the whole duration of any caravanning trip, not that I can imagine for 1 min a caravan is going to be much different to home but I'm a man so what do I know
Tell your wife that a caravan will be ok with her hair, my nan is Italian and I have inherited her crazy wild hair,throw in a very tight curl from my father and it's a disaster and that when I used to camp under canvas it was not a pretty sight , a bit of damp and floof !!!!
Now I have a caravan my hair keeps damp free, I can plug all my hair taming kit in and I'm fluff n frizz free :)
Funnily enough I was thinking about this recently, that I have very rarely ever seen black / Asian people camping. I was musing about it - as you do - and I mentioned it to my OH and kids, and after some thought they agreed that in all the years we've camped, and all the sites in England, Scotland, Wales and France that we've been to we have hardly ever seen black people and I don't think I've ever seen a black family. I was thinking about posting on it as a question but felt a bit shy - thought people might get the wrong idea. But if other people are saying the same thing I'd love to know why. Is it just cultural do you think?
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Topic: Are there any Black people caravanning?
she showed me these as an excuse for about 6 months.
