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Post by Jaz66 on Jan 10, 2009 13:40:17 GMT 1
Rj Exactly my thoughts.. spooky or what! Personal Recommendations, Fine. Got an interest in it, ie:family own it?, just say so No harm trying to promote a good business, and by being up front we all know where we stand.... Rj, If we get loads of pages, do you feel a fact file coming on? Jaz
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Post by rj2para (Bisto) on Jan 10, 2009 14:47:31 GMT 1
good idea jaz, You could always cut and paste the thread table to word and try that out if you have not done so already? Or I can do it this evening if you wish? DIY day don't tell my general I have stopped ;D r.
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Post by Jaz66 on Jan 10, 2009 14:56:08 GMT 1
Hi
Good idea
Have to work this afternoon, could do it tomorrow or tuesday.
If you can do it today, fine with me
PS won't tell the little general youve downed tools... ;D
Jaz
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Post by rj2para (Bisto) on Jan 10, 2009 22:15:17 GMT 1
All yours. Thanks for keeping mum Jaz.
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Post by oddjob1 on Apr 30, 2009 11:59:35 GMT 1
had a 3 week tour of europe last year..price ranged from 8 to 14 euros night on campsites..most handy things..wind up torch,flask,mat,least 1 basic meal( 2 nights couldn't find a site so was in farmers field 1 night and a park in italy other)..don't take too many clothes..
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Post by skyhook on Apr 30, 2009 14:08:20 GMT 1
Oddjob1 any idear on toll charges over the water ?? As im off to spain next month and am going to do Calais to Paris on Moterway, after that droping down on the nationals.
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Post by oddjob1 on Apr 30, 2009 14:23:35 GMT 1
avoided nearly all toll roads or came off next junction.... headed towards belgium and avoided paris
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Post by blitzman5 on May 1, 2009 0:02:40 GMT 1
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Post by rj2para (Bisto) on Jun 1, 2009 13:46:42 GMT 1
I was reading another site and the tip they had was. If you are going to park your bike next to the tent. Lean the side stand away from the tent as that way it will not fall on you while you sleep, should it dig in or blow over! seemed like a cool tip to me. The other one was ear plugs for the Ferry, but having camped in Spain last year you may want plugs on some camp sites, as they don't go to bed till about 1am
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Post by McF on Jun 1, 2009 14:54:08 GMT 1
I use an Oxford "magnimate", basically a large triangular slab of plastic with "feet" on the underside to prevent it moving in mud/grass and a magnet to keep it fastened to the side stand if you have to move the bike. I paid circa £6 in Hein Gericke and well worth it, this eBay item is £9 inc postage and still worth it. It copes with 350Kg of laden Pan European, so your measily light weight aNTy's will be no problem.
Whichever way you point the bike (stand towards or away from you) while you're sleeping, I would ensure it was over 1m from the tent. That way, if it did fall over it would hit the deck not me.
Not quite the way you want to waken in the middle of the night! I'd rather have Mylene Klass or Nell McAndrew creeping in than a few hundred Kg of bike.
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Post by Buzzin (^_^) on Jun 2, 2009 11:47:20 GMT 1
The organiser of last years camping trip put it like this: there is a place for your tent, and a place for your bike...those are not one and the same. We usually parked our bikes on the edge of the paved road on the campsite when possible, and otherwise well away from the tents.
Now if they could only persuade some people to do the same with gasburners.... (I wasn't there, but some guy burned a hole in a tent when trying to make coffee)
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Post by rj2para (Bisto) on Aug 6, 2009 16:46:07 GMT 1
We did that on cub camp with cars and my bike on the other side of the field. When you think about it, you don't normally take a petrol can to bed so why sleep that close to you bike?
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Post by bilgeman on Aug 16, 2009 10:01:07 GMT 1
Better late than never, I suppose (been busy). I'll start with The Green Dragon at Buttington (Welshpool) which is my local. Landlord Phil has a field at the side of the pub for camping and charges about a fiver a night (I think). The food is good and there's a cosy bar with a fire in the colder weather (most of the time, then). There's a pool table and about three CDs of 1960s 'classics' that play over and over - I expect Phil would put something else on if you ask but I like some of the tracks, being a sixties teenager (sounds better than 56), so I've never bothered. It's a bit isolated but a cab into Welshpool will cost about 3 or 4 quid. Welshpoo (sic) can be a bit chavvy. The Raven, The Talbot and The Westwood Park are usually ok and so are the other pubs generally apart from Friday and Saturday nights when the club foot brigade come down out of the hills to practice cannibalism and grope innocent tourists. More to come...
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Post by McF on Aug 16, 2009 10:55:31 GMT 1
All good info Bilgeman, sounds very tempting, and hospitable, although my memories (now quite distant) from camping in Central and North Wales are not quite so fond - the old "You're not welcome here Englishman", which I hope is more related to the "clubfoot brigade" you mention.
I should try and get back up to that part of the world again sometime soon as there's lots of brilliant walking (and excellent roads!). It will either revive my faith in the area, or kill off any thoughts of ever going again!
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Post by redpin on Aug 23, 2009 22:53:31 GMT 1
can I ask wot it has like loo's [open for 24hrs ] showers how big and can you get back on site like after middnight, we have camp just down the road from where this is and the site is a bit pricey like £10 per night
john ;D
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