As a young couple with little children and a baby we headed off green as grass with a relatives Abbey in tow,
Arriving at a wet and windy Cornish site other caravanner's were quickly on hand to help site the van and give advice on putting the Awning up and getting the fridge, gas and water problems sorted.
When we gave up caravanning 4 years ago we were thought then that caravanning was changing. Less help and not so chatty friendly folk.
People tucked away in their vans goggle boxing at 1 of a 1001 sat channels or tucked away in the awning with wind break defenses signaling this is 'my domain / b&&&&& off'
We stayed at Leeds for a few days in September, we said hello to others who seemed hard pressed to even respond. My wife and I went to the assistance of a couple hitching up, it was their 3rd year caravannning and they said no one apart from some CC wardens had ever helped them.
Even on arrival at a CC site in reception other caravanners looked in disdain when we said we didn't have tv or sat set-up, we got the impression that we were looked on as poor outsiders.
Commenting that a motor mover isn't a necessity for all caravanner's seems to have riled a few people here.
Have caravanners changed? In the past people mucked in and helped and offered advice. Now it seems more like it's how much of our homely des res gismo's and gadget's can we bring to a site and look down others who don't do bling and god forbid that strangers actually try to converse
May be we've just used the wrong sites this year, but then again the reception and response here after pointing out that many people can actually cope fine without a mover seems to be the same as caravan site "look at what I've got" attitude.
Easyvanner
Arriving at a wet and windy Cornish site other caravanner's were quickly on hand to help site the van and give advice on putting the Awning up and getting the fridge, gas and water problems sorted.
When we gave up caravanning 4 years ago we were thought then that caravanning was changing. Less help and not so chatty friendly folk.
People tucked away in their vans goggle boxing at 1 of a 1001 sat channels or tucked away in the awning with wind break defenses signaling this is 'my domain / b&&&&& off'
We stayed at Leeds for a few days in September, we said hello to others who seemed hard pressed to even respond. My wife and I went to the assistance of a couple hitching up, it was their 3rd year caravannning and they said no one apart from some CC wardens had ever helped them.
Even on arrival at a CC site in reception other caravanners looked in disdain when we said we didn't have tv or sat set-up, we got the impression that we were looked on as poor outsiders.
Commenting that a motor mover isn't a necessity for all caravanner's seems to have riled a few people here.
Have caravanners changed? In the past people mucked in and helped and offered advice. Now it seems more like it's how much of our homely des res gismo's and gadget's can we bring to a site and look down others who don't do bling and god forbid that strangers actually try to converse
May be we've just used the wrong sites this year, but then again the reception and response here after pointing out that many people can actually cope fine without a mover seems to be the same as caravan site "look at what I've got" attitude.
Easyvanner