UK staycation boom predicted
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We'd more than likely hire a cottage Ttda. Can't see the aged one going anywhere near a campsite.
Have our eye on a 4 night break just after Easter, depending on if Mrs WN has had her jab by then. These youngsters always causing problems.
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We have tentative plans for a CL with adjacent self catering suite we have used before. NY moors, so only hour and half from home. Can’t see it happening till after Easter though.
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Come and see us, you won’t be disappointed by the welcome, but maybe the crowds
I have been to see you for many years in the late 70’s and early 80’ I was an HGV driver and used to do deliveries of rock salt to council highways depots and return home with either China clay or mackerel. The impression I got of the place then was that they always wanted to rip you off.
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I'm carrying on the family tradition of visiting the Lakes, this is my gt grandfather on a visit to farming friends in Westmoreland. He came from a farm but worked for the railways and this was his annual trip. I can put up with the weather, it changes very quickly and I just like being there!
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Just catching up on posts on here.
Just your local news? I've always been an avid radio 4 listener so it's often news bulletins or in depth. It seems to me that as soon as any announcement is made the presenters and reporters are pushing the boundaries for more! I don't listen 'live' as often as I did, radio always on 😉, as I'm trying not to scream at it...........
Yes we need to start opening up BUT slow and steady not some hell for leather, off to hell in a handcart, stop start way. The virus needs our help to spread, it can't do it all by itself. At the moment it looks like lockdown has/is doing some good but numbers are still high - more testing??? More in hospital, because they're better at treating it??? Not been enough time to evaluate and know about the vaccine generally plus those that have had from the beginning were the ones likely not to be out and about mixing on a daily basis.
Can't say I agree with the handling of it all, but the media definitely don't help 🤐🤐. Of course business will want to prepare for opening, even if its only a good clean and rota type things. Look what they did and spent last time to comply........
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That’s a bit of a time span to hold a grudge DT, early 80’s, nearly 40 years. 😂 Things do evolve you know......😁
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I agree Bakers, slow and steady is the key. Get the number of infections down as much as we can as that’s when Test and Trace becomes really effective.
We are doing a lot more tests now, partly because of the number of ‘surge’ tests being done etc and if you look at the number of tests we have done in comparison to the rest of Europe there’s a massive difference.
I was looking at the latest stats on Gov.uk and the hospital admissions are falling slowly, down from 1750 to 1492 in a week, and the numbers in hospital dropped from 23384 to 18462 in a week.
All good signs for the future and it can only get better as more people are vaccinated.
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Sounds very similar to us takethedogalong. OH retired medically retired very early. Add into the mix daughter moving to New Zealandand more recently OH performing again 😱.
We did manage quite a bit of exploring of our wonderful UK, not managed Ireland at all 😢. Plus a good trip to France in our motorhome, but in order to be able to afford prolonged trips to NZ we had to curtail our UK trips a bit and save my leave. I gave up work at 60, should have been given my savings of state pension but that didnt happen or again on my last birthday, they'd better not move the goalposts again 😤.
Life is all about compromise and enjoying what you're offered. I'd settle for a stand and stare at son and daughter in law right now, and just to be able to see our new grandchild soon after arrival. It seems ironic that we saw kiwi ones at about a week old and might not our local one! After that, I'd love a holiday anywhere. We're about to enter our 3rd year, no complaints, of lockdown- first was more of a voluntary stay at home and recover ourselves. Lesson to me enjoy what you can when you can 😇. Rant over, I feel better for it though!
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Stick with de mob AnnB, we are all a bit like that😁 Lets hope things go well this time, and we can enjoy a touch more normality later in year.
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Just wanted to say that my comment re rain in the Lake District was, although true, said with affection
I was born and grew up in Bolton and the Lakes are very dear to me, indeed Jean and I have spent many happy times there and she has the same view of Switzerland!
I love Cornwall and it’s home but being up high in the Lakes with those views takes some beating.
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I had a week in Keswick in 1976 (remember that one). Rained every day. Twenty odd years later I took my OH for a week, counselling anorak and wellies. Sunshine very day. You just can't trust English weather.
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Getting back on topic-I find the Dales is my go to rather than the Lakes, that is for one reason only. . .Space, the Dales have way more space than the Lakes(I’m talking driving not walking) unless it’s winter walks mind.
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Cornwall is definitely special to us. It’s just so different to anywhere else in UK, even it’s close neighbour Devon. We never tire of exploring different little places down there, sometimes on foot, sometimes by car, even done it by canoe and on horseback. We go all seasons, have done since the early 1980’s, so have seen vast changes in some places, others have been barely touched and are like stepping back in time with a bit of imagination. It’s the light and the colours as well. I wondered what the fuss was about St Ives until I first saw it from a good view point on a red hot clear day. The beaches change constantly as well, half a dozen Winter storms stripped our favourite beach of sand one February. When we went back down in May, all the sand was back, amazing.
I love most places in UK, enjoy the fact that somewhere can seem a bit grim and frightening one day, yet go back on a warm sunny day and it’s transformed. Drove down Llanberis Pass late one evening in our MG, just a sheet of rain, next to no visibility, we were doing nothing but following a wall and a white line. Got up next morning to glorious sunshine........Wow😁Want to do same in France at some point. Explore lots of churches, castles, historic centres. Spain and Italy as well.
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Talking of how things can change - we visited Italy one year in late September, OH didn't want to go when it was hot! It was very cold, very misty. 10 days at our hotel, on the last day the sun came out and we found that we had a mountain just behind the hotel, first time we had seen it. We must have been fortunate because we have had some beautiful weather in the Lake District. To get back on track, I don't think that we should open up too soon either, we have been through all of this, what is an extra couple of months of caution. I have been watching Israel, obviously a much lower population, but just ahead of us with vaccines, maybe we will follow their route out.
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If you're stuck for ideas have a look at the Rally Centre PDF, you don't have to be a centre member, you can choose anything available if there's a pitch left for you. No socialising required if you want to do your own thing, many rallies are in lovely places you wouldn't normally be able to visit with a van. I see there's still room at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta run by the Avon Centre but Longleat Festival of Lights is full. We're heading for a quieter spot but there's a great variety out there. fingers crossed they'll be open for visitors this time round.
The contact list for centres can be found in the membership area, top left of this page.
Rally Centre LINK
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I have the Dales as my go to #2 tbh, Dalby Forest is #1. They’re go to because they feed a need & they’re relatively local👍🏻. I visit a lot of places ET but whilst most are enjoyable the go to’s are guarantees for ticking many boxes👍🏻
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Same here Rocky. N Y Moors, Dark Peak area, doorstep bolt holes. Hidden spots away from crowds. 😁
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In general we do not go to visit a site and its areas as such. Apart from December all our trips or the last 15 years+ have been based along a planned circular tour route. There have been some sites that we have visited 3 times in that period but they are few. Many sites just once or twice.
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Only stayed there once but can confirm that it does indeed rain, and rain and rain!
Arrived to a very waterlogged site after just about the worst ever drive towing the van, on a motorway with roadworks, reduced lane widths, little visibility in a monsoon level downpour.
Not been that way since but still causes a shudder!
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We spent a week around Glen Coe in June 1980 and were treated to a week of rain and sleet. Not my idea of main summer holiday weather at all and we have yet to return. We may get there again one day but it is at the end of a long list.
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