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I had 5 nights at Broadings Farm on thy northern edge of Whitby in mid July. The town was rammed with idiots then, many of whom were seriously obese and prime candidates for a terminal experience of Covid. We went into town one day but beat a hasty retreat. It was quieter the following day when we went to the Abbey. Perhaps the grey blustery weather helped.
Given the way things are "oop norf", I would give it a wide berth. Currently just outside Chelmsford checking whether the only way really is Essex.
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I think the ‘op norf’ that is bad is Lancashire/Gtr Manchester areaM back into restrictive movement.
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Further to the beginning of this thread. This is Whitby beach from West Cliff today, ok a bit dull and chilly, but the surfers were out. The town, in comparison was pretty busy so we drove through. West Cliff was fine and we had a little walk around.
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Not quite North really😂 Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria are “North”. I have relatives that think anything above Watford is North......🤣
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Bugsy used to scoff at me being a Southron👍🏻😊
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Most sites that we have been on have felt safe. Advice to use your own facilities rather than toilet blocks means that you do not get into contact with others or areas that you would want to avoid. Most sites provide sanitisers near bins, taps & toilet emptying points. So, if you don’t use the toilet blocks..........
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Many members, including myself on a 5 day visit to the Wirral site, HAVE been using the toilet blocks and I am only aware of one caravan site (NOT a C&MH or C&CC site) which has been closed since being allowed to reopen at the beginning of July so it appears that the safety measures put in place have been working up to now. Of course, I may be wrong, but I would envisage that any other sites being closed down would be all over the news and social media.
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O...... do tell AD, which one?😲
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There are sites in the SW which haven't opened, publicised on local news earlier on. Some felt they couldn't cope with the risks & regs etc. Club sites closed, 18 for CAMC and 26 for C&CC added to booking pressures this year and busy sites.
On our three site stays conditions have varied, less use of facilities by many. I haven't seen things like sanitisers around water points etc. I saw one site where the managers cleaned the service point taps frequently.
I wouldn't want to share facilities at present just as I wouldn't share the bathroom at home with strangers for the same reasons, to avoid Covid19.
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Never been to Southport, town or Site. Hope you had a nice time, we have found it good just getting a change of scenery. We have been off site every day, but chose our visits out very carefully.
NT and EH visits have been good, as very well organised and strictly limited on numbers. We haven’t done any towns at all, other than I nipped into an M&S food hall on outskirts of Berwick.
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Stayed on 4 sites this week, 3 commercial and 1 CCC. Good facilities at first 2 commercials so felt very safe using site facilities. The 2nd site initially looked very full, 4 large fields of caravans, but mostly seasonal pitches, so had the place mostly to ourselves. CCC site facilities closed, but good COVID precautions. Final site in Pooley Bridge is a different story all together. Full of large groups of youngsters in tents & pods enjoying the last chance to party! Definitely using our own facilities here and being ultra careful (as they aren’t). All sites mostly full.
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We have just cancelled an upcoming 4 week trip using 8 sites, but nothing to do with the sites themselves.
The rising number of cases everywhere, our local restrictions preventing us taking our daughter and grandson with us for a few nights, fewer places open to visit, and uncertain weather in October were the considerations.
We usually use our own shower etc, so no problem there, but we like to be out and about visiting NT and other sites, museums, interesting towns, not staying on site, so we decided we might as well stay home and get on with various projects, and make plans for next year.
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There’s simply so much confusing data out there to be honest. You look on one website, and it shows the whole of Norfolk as an area of enhanced concern. Then you go on a similar website and it says it has a current rate of 8 new cases per 100,000, which is around the best in the country!
We are just doing what we have done since March, being extra careful where we go, making sure we have emergency supplies, heeding good advice. For us, smaller Sites feel safer. This is only one we have been on that has had loos and showers, but few are using them despite all the cleaning going on. Lots of smaller camper vans and tents have their own loo tents adjacent. I don’t think we have had another outfit closer to us then 20 metres or so to be honest.
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At the end of the day we, as individuals, can only take responsibility for ourselves.
I am just back from a heaving Ferry Meadows, both the park and campsite rammed, yet it was up to me how close I went to someone, whether or when I used the loo block and how careful I was with my own anti-covid hygiene,
I will also perhaps caution against rushing to judgement over what is printed in newspapers. They sell their rags based on sensationalist hype, not "this is ferry meadows, thousands out enjoying the sunshine fresh air and beauty of the place but just look how careful they are being with social distancing ....".
Incidentally, congratulations to all the staff at FM for managing huge a busy site in ways that made me feel quite covid-safe.
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Thanks for that link👍🏻, I’ve copied it for future reference. It’s already 5 days out so it can be used as an indicator to dispel the ‘fake news’ when it’s updated soon.
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Brue
It is useful for finding rates within the area you live, down, it seems, to Ward level but not quite so good for a whole town. I still find the tracker on the BBC website the best for whole town results, just put in the first three characters from your postcode. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
David
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Safety and risk are dependent on so many things. At least on a campsite you can create your own bubble around your pitch. The science would suggest that shared facilities are the real point of risk. I am sure the Club is doing its best to minimalise that risk with cleaning regimes and restrictions on numbers using the facilities at any one time. (really surprising from various recent reviews how many members seem to think the Club have gone over the top with COVID restrictions in toilet blocks!) What the Club can't account for is anyone on site who may have the infection or who is asymptomatic, the latter being particularly difficult to detect without testing, so that risk remains. We tend not to use site facilities much anyway so any risk is lessened. However beyond how safe or not a site is there is, when away in the van, the element of also having to metaphorically be looking over your shoulder all the time which to us has taken away a lot of the enjoyment of going away at present. We were meant to be at Castleton now but we cancelled. We have one more booking next month and depending on how things that may go the same way.
David
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Hazmat tha greet wazzock, funny mind👍🏻😂😂
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We're currently away, staying on a 5 van site, not a CL, in Lincolnshire. Moving to a CL later today. It feels so good to be away again, it's the first time since January for us. We decided to pick somewhere not that touristy, and to go for a small site. It's brilliant; we've cycled for miles on near empty quiet roads.
Normally we'd have a look round nearby towns, but haven't done that this time, just keeping away from where there could be lots of people. Ok, it's not exactly a scenic area, but being somewhere different has been a real change.
I agree with others upthread, it's up to each individual to keep themselves safe, when talking to others on site (and there are only 2 other vans here) we keep a good distance apart, we have masks and sanitiser in our panniers, in case we go into a shop, etc. All part of the new normal.
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Try the Wolds ID, it ain’t the Pennines but they’re not flat either👍🏻-
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Thank you for the links Brue and DavidK. At the moment, we are still crying on with our bookings - at Tredegar House at the moment. I guess the one that concerns me the most is Burrs - being quite close to Bolton (they are on the 'watch list' - but we have a few weeks to go before that one - just playing it by ear....
David
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