Fair point, problem will be that all the first timers will be first timing at the same time, it will be more crowded than normal so they wont get the normal/best experience so they will be less likely to love it. I always think standards slip when it gets too busy in any setting. There is a farm shop near us, service has always been great, until lock down 1, it got really busy with first time farm shoppers, one of the staff, probably cos of the stress and pressure was mega rude all the time, I used to go once a week, I would never go there again, one of me mates says its gone quiet now everyone has gone back to the supermarkets now there you dont have to stand outside for half an hour. ,
I think their experience will be very weather dependent - in good weather it’s easy to enjoy yourself outside, like folk in their gardens, loud music, beer barbecue etc. When it’s raining you have to use your knowledge and imagination, so National Trust, wet walks etc. That’s the bit that tests out new campers
Being too busy isn't the first timers fault but the fault of the campsite etc operator that crams as many in as they can, but then can you blame them when they were closed for a number of months and need to raise some money themselves? I suspect for new campers in 2020/1 it is different than in the 60s/70s when I was a kid, we went camping every year whether we liked it or not as it was the only way my parents could afford to take us on holiday. By default we had good weather and bad weather years and a whole load of experiences. One of the best was when we rocked up at Poole/Weymouth and the striking dock workers wouldn't load the car on the ferry so we (4 families) carried on all our kit including massive steel framed tents, lashed it down on the upper deck, etc. Similarly people are now making the best of what they can, just it's a different best. Lots of local businesses got overrun in the 1st lockdown. We get fruit & veg delivered but during 1st lockdown they similarly got over busy and couldn't get a delivery slot, now we can so we use them again. As a regular they even squeezed us in at Christmas when the booking system said nothing available.
You're welcome here in Brum, though I can't guarantee picturesque views from the driveway but I can guarantee colourful language and events in the neighbourhood
Very kind, I think my family down the road may be annoyed if i camped out on your drive rather than staying with them! Very kind offer though
I'm not worried about a thing. I'm currently highest bidder on this which I shall have habitable in plenty of time for the new season. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foden-Mi...782199?hash=item2f53f13f37:g:1boAAOSwTjFgH-eb
Daughters digs are in Small Heath... now theres an interesting place! bet you compare favourably! (I hope)
Boris is keeping it under his hat while Feb 15th before he explains the way forward after lockdown. He wouldn’t even say whether he has booked a Summer holiday when asked I suppose that means he has, probably not too worried about losing the deposit tho if it all goes pete Tong.
A good few new starters will come to love the camping. Some of them will even end up on TLB. As for canal boats.. back in the 70s the canals were still full of discarded commercial working boats, and still sort of funded in decline by charges based on commercial freight. Buy a 30 year old scrap barge slap concrete over the holes in the hull. Use it tied up in a corner somewhere semi abandoned by industry. 50 years on the holes have grown round the concrete so you have to buy new. And it costs time to build new. If you look at the repairs done since the 70s on the canal network , without freight, and now you are paying your share of keeping those warerways open. If you could still be moving freight £1000 would just be costs.. round here its 20 days rent on our house...what do HGVs pay in road tax ?
Boris is supposedly getting married in May (?) and will want to have a good old booze up to celebrate the occasion.
