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Captain Quick
Captain Quick Club Member Posts: 2 ✭
edited April 16 in Introductions #1

Just joined. I started camping as a student in 1971, at the first Glastonbury Fayre as it happened, and enjoyed a decade of mostly wild camping (see attached pictures) around the UK and Continental Europe before moving on to a few decades of ‘camping at sea’ aka sailing.

I collected a new campervan last year having decided that parking something with four wheels on our drive was easier, and somewhat less costly, to manage than parking a 35 foot boat at a marina. We’ve had a few nights away over the winter (it can only get warmer) and are steadily easing ourselves into the world of campervanning.

Looking forward to the journey and meeting folks on a campsite somewhere along the way.

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  • Tinwheeler
    Tinwheeler Forum Participant Posts: 23,134 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 16 #2

    Ah, those were the days 😀

    Welcome to CT.

  • mickysf
    mickysf Forum Participant Posts: 6,474 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 16 #3

    Brings back memories of my Vango Force 10 and old mini van. Basic camping but such fun. Modified the van so cab seats could be removed to use as outside chairs and also created an ‘in van’ sleeping space if needed. Wouldn’t be allowed these days but I guess it was my first camper van of sorts. Cramped and could be very cold, needed a good sleeping bag. Went miles in it and had many happy experiences along with friends. 

  • richardandros
    richardandros Club Member Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 17 #4

    My Force 10 is in the garage loft, somewhere.  Just can't bring myself to part with it even though I have no need for it!  Used to go climbing in the snow and ice in winter - in the Lakes in the 70's.  Also still have my Optimus paraffin stove which I won't part with either, although I do use it occasionally.

    Welcome to the Forum CQ! There's a few ex-yotties on here. I had a Westerly Oceanranger built  - in the early 90's and Ros and I sailed from Hull to the Greek islands and back and were away for two and half years. We certainly had some real adventures and happy memoriessmile

     

  • Captain Quick
    Captain Quick Club Member Posts: 2 ✭
    edited April 18 #5

    I too have hung on to my Vango Force 10. It's survived several house moves and, like others, somehow I can't contemplate parting with it. Equally, I've managed to hang on to my blue patrol tent (pictured in my intro pictures). This 1970s survivor of Glastonbury, Reading. Wheeley and Cambridge music festivals along with many wild camps most notably on Dartmoor, the Tilly Whim Caves, Lakeland, and within the stone circle at Stonehenge, sits at the back of the garage still ready for action. That said, our Hillside Birchover is our go-to overnight camp accommodation these days.

  • Kasspa
    Kasspa Forum Participant Posts: 359
    edited April 19 #6

    Welcome Captain Q, that blue tent looks identical to our 1st tent, purchased from Millets in Edmonton, London circa 1980, ridge tent with a bell end & built in rubberized groundsheet (which eventually crumbled) , with the tiniest of 'windows' in one of the door flaps....

    Eventually slept 5 of us & it also sits in our garage loft space, unable to part with it smile

    Enjoy your new adventures 

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