Not all about money
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I know you'd join again in a flash if they'd have you, Rocky. It's a sad day when folk who want to join aren't welcome. Being part of the club is what it's all about. 😗
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Those sites are a minority though and I'm sure we all realise tenters are generally not well catered for.
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You trade your youth for a few shekels WTG, do you have Yorkshire ancestry mayhap🤔😂😂
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Recent? I think not.
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I beg to differ (although accept that “recent” to you, and recent to me may vary😂) I can recall tent camping on Club Sites in the 1980’s, hardly “recent”.
However, whilst the Club have finally decided to do a bit more around catering for those truly under canvas, mainly in the way of a few pitches with hook up, tents are still not welcome on every Site, and it is usually, but not always, a long walk to the facilities. I speak as an ex tent user.
We recently purchased a CCC membership for a relative. She and her outfit, whilst perfectly safe and legal, couldn’t hit the right targets the Club requires. Shades of deja vu for us, some 40 years ago, we were closely inspected, had to demonstrate how our camper worked before being admitted onto Sites. We didn’t renew our Membership until we got a caravan......
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I think TDA has covered it very well.
I accept that 40 odd years may not seem recent to one who lives in the long ago and far away.
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I seem to have traded my energetic youth (one spent swimming, cycling, horse riding, squash playing, coastal walking, camping, canoeing) for aching joints, pinned shoulders, feet that require insoles, and a degree of caution nowadays. 😂 There’s life in the old dog yet though, still a few more adventures to go..... 👍
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"campers" i take.is not as In A tent ,but a converted vehicle for camping in, ,it was many years later than that as I posted tents were a accepted in their own right
I think even now a "conversion?" into a camper has to meet min conversion protocols to enable membership of this club
A mattress in the back of a van/estate car as something that will do for instance is not a camper
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I'll not argue with TDA's recall.
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Impact injury. It’s not the running on the pavements that does it, it’s not wearing the right footwear. Back when I earned a living playing sport, (as opposed to planning and delivering sports services) sophisticated footwear, suitable for different activities was in its infancy. Hence my foot and joint issues. The shoulder injuries were also (high) impact. The nag dumped me over a fence. I cleared it, he didn’t, but thankfully I had a hat on, and the ambulance didn’t take long! 🤕😂
Not a pup tent. Two man ridge tent. Lower Wensleydale. It was a very long walk down that drive from the top to have a pee, and a right ruddy climb back up as well in the dark. Castleton I recall as a scrubby little patch that’s no longer there. The Racecourse Sites were best for camping, Hexham, Wincanton, Fakenham. So that’s a retrograde step for tent campers who are Club Members, all three of these no longer on network. I ended up joining CCC to find better camping options, especially as you can camp on CS sites.
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+1👍🏻, I used to workout with a pro Athletics coach & he was a big advocate of-‘ get the most professional gear you can afford as it will save you wear & tear injuries in the future’ it was a daily maxim of his👏🏻👏🏻
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I am currently enjoying the benefits of a ladies cycle saddle. After sitting on some of the “blades” my OH can happily use, it’s sheer bliss😂
Just done 45 minutes climbing (virtually) up to lighthouse, Cap de Formentor. Without that saddle, I think I would need to be surgically extracted from his bike😵😁
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They are increasing in number however. When we joined in 2005 they were very few and far between. Clumber Park now has 6 electric tent pitches. That is out of 174 though, I would have thought they could run to a few more. As the site has 87 grass pitches it always seemed a bit odd they did not allow tents. I think the diversity into tents and Glamping is great. Allowing family members who do not have an RV to meet up for a holiday.
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In the past the cc site at Clumber park was not allowed by the Leasers, the National Trust, as the ccc had their own leased site in the walled garden? when this clubs lease came up for renewal ,the ccc had moved away
The NT now have their own tenting area not open as long as this clubs site
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+ 1 on diversity, Steve. It's surely the way to go.👍🏻
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Not a pup tent. Two man ridge tent. Lower Wensleydale. It was a very long walk down that drive from the top to have a pee, and a right ruddy climb back up as well in the dark.
It still is. We met up with our sons there when the TDF went through Leyburn. Fortunately we arrived several days before them and phoned telling them to bring the old porta potty from our family camping days. They ate with us, so at least didn’t have to wander down the hill with the washing up. They certainly couldn’t be classified user friendly pitches.😂
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Diversity was what i posted a few days ago ,hence many organisations are looking to the future of touring ,when I think it will be smaller hi rid cars paying to travel on UK roads and stopping at is now LV sites which will be more pod type accomodation or tents that do not need much home storage
I was reading in todays paper that batteries ,are expected to be able to be charged to 80percent in 15 mins by 2035 to make owning full EVs more acceptable for distance driving,
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Ps ,just been advised by a friends of ours who were wardens at Lower Wensleydale Back in the days when the site was on a lease by the really old owner and she advises that part of the lease was to take tents that was also a requirement by the LA to try to keep wild camping to a minimum in the area
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When we were in Majorca we met a couple we knew from CC sites use ,and as we had a hire car went out for the day with them and did Cap de Formentor avoiding the tour de France practicing teams
When we were at home we got a postcard from them, with a picture of the road saying if they had seen the route before they would have chickened out of the trip
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