Remember those garage doors at £140 each? Well, given they've been in the junk shop since before lockdown, I thought I'd be rather cheeky and make a silly offer - £80 per door. It was accepted. Result!
All I need now is a garage to go around them. However, this time next year, Rodney...
Returned yesterday from a 3 might stay in our favoured haunt of North Devon. Spent the first night wild camping, but decided to stay Friday and Saturday nights in a campsite called Damage Barton near Mortehoe. All very nice with all the requisites for caravans and motorhomes - electric hook-up, toilet block, grey water disposal, etc - but it was soulless and I hated every minute of it.
Acres of caravans and motorhomes as far as the eye could see. Sterile and hideous. Left early Sunday morning to return to our usual parking place in Lee Bay and managed to get some peace and quiet, and a view.
I'll never go near a campsite again, unless it's a small, farmer's field , a small Caravan Club site or the carpark of a pub that allows it (on the basis of having a meal there) - but nothing that's windswept, devoid of trees, miles from anywhere and blanketed in holidaymakers from the Midlands. I suppose it was a mistake to stay relatively near to Woolacombe.
Not sure if you've noticed, but the VW Transporter T6 is now the holiday van of choice. Because they're so popular, the prices are horrendously high. They're not for me though, as I like a bit of comfort and somewhere to hunker down in the weather turns inclement, not to mention a toilet and shower.
You have to be a roughy-toughy camper or a surfer dude to love them, which I'm not - they're basically a little bit more than a tent on wheels. Hay would like one, but I'm not that desperate. On the plus side they're much more manoeuvrable and parkable, have a much lower fuel consumption, you can reverse them on a narrow lane without much trouble, plus you're less likely to get bogged down in a muddy field, but every time you want to get in or out, any warmth that has built up inside is wafted out and space is severely restricted - so, as I said, all weather touring and creature comforts are more to my liking.
A bit plus for wild campers is that they're essentially converted tradesmen's vans, which means you can park up virtually anywhere, slap a magnetic utility company logo you've had made up previously on the side, put some red and white tape around a convenient hole and no bugger will challenge you parking there. It helps if you're minded to wear a set of overalls too.
Given Brummies inundate Devon when going on holiday, I wonder whether Devonians go on holiday in the Midlands?
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