How selfish of C.C Member

[Guest]

Some people are to scared to complain and suffer in silence, or should that be suffer in the noise of the inconsiderate.

As for "get a life, how does staying up drinking with friends until the wee hours give you any more a life than getting up at day break and enjoying exploring the local area, going surfing diving or fishing or doing whatever you enjoy?

 

[xtrailman]

Euro

When we are on tour, we enjoy walking and cycling, i am also a keen match fisherman. But we still enjoy a barbi and a drink of wine in the evening.

But we don't expect every one to emulate our lifestyle.

My Lord,

We don't stay on CC sites(thank goodness), only the CLs, if a 11 o'clock curfew applies, then i am not aware of it.

I am now bored with this topic, so will no longer post on it.

 

[Guest]

We also enjor BBQ and wine and a few drinks, but we keep it quiet out of respect for others!

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Euro

When we are on tour, we enjoy walking and cycling, i am also a keen match fisherman. But we still enjoy a barbi and a drink of wine in the evening.

But we don't expect every one to emulate our lifestyle.

My Lord,

We don't stay on CC sites(thank goodness), only the CLs, if a 11 o'clock curfew applies, then i am not aware of it.

I am now bored with this topic, so will no longer post on it.

OK so that's it then :O(

Do me a favour though, next year post a list of CLs and dates you are visiting so I can avoid :O)

I don't see why I should waste money on Horlicks for rowdy people to keep me awake ... heh! heh! heh!

 

[Surfer]

We would complain very vocally if some selfish person decided to party after 11pm on a CL as we have a life and we prefer to enjoy it and not listen to inconsiderate loud mouthed people talking at the top of their voices to midnight or later. IMHO these people should be permanently banned from CLs.

 

[Alan Partridge]

To answer Trevor's question, I think anyone with an ounce of consideration for others and a moments thought would try to avoid disturbing others at any time, as well as observing the 11pm-7pm quiet rule.

Live and let live is a good maxim, but that is not the same as saying everyone should do as they please.

Being quiet upsets no-one - being unnecessarily noisy spoils things for the majority.

I've come across the "get a life" response as well - seemingly from people who haven't much of a life themselves beyond beer, fags, and "popular culture" - loud music or full volume TV drivel.

I like eight hours sleep, and to be in the shower by 7am to get a flying start to the day - it doesn't have to be everybody's choice, but it doesn't affect anybody else.

 

[Dustydog]

As a result of the december bunfight for cc site bookings we now use cls more than ever. I am very pleased to say I have never met "Ray" types, in my travels , just decent thoughtful people.Most CLs only have 5 pitches. Please please don't spoil it!!

Cheers

Dustydog

 

[WatsonJohnG]

We have earplugs by the bed

That ensure we never get rowdy neighbours

But should we forget them the who knows!!

 

[ineedalabotomy]

We had a problem with a van and a karaoke machine a few rows away ! after a few sleepless night & at the end of my tether, at 4am i pulled out his mains hook up cable and cut the plug off, then threw it it the bin. Not to be recommended by others ! but it was either this or a punch it the mouth !! I think he got the message and left the next morning. I am a laid back and patient man but this was taking the p**s....Cheers

 

[Auvergne]

So YOU'RE the guy going to the water tap with the perm!!

 

[path20]

'In all the years we have been touring, we have never had a complaint against us, or made one against some one else.'

So glad you didn't pitch next to us then Ray.I would definitely have asked you politely to keep the noise down.If you insisted in keeping most of the people in vans around you awake until 1am then you obviously don't care a dam!!If you want to party until 1am then do it at home or in the middle of a field away from everybody else.

We also have to put up with the daytime little problems that you mentioned including a stone thrown at our caravan, by a child, a few weeks ago on the York site which caused a dent.His family were in the caravan next to us.This didn't give us the right to party until the early hours.

Unfortunately it is becoming more apparent that many members have this 'I'm all right Jack' attitude.

 

[mickiep]

FLIPPING HECK! what a load of old fuddy duddies. We have caravanned for 8 years now, mostly CLs and small private sites.We do tend, on occasions, to stay up late talking and having a glass of wine. My wife and I both work hard and are up at between 5.30 - 6.00 am most mornings when at home. The chance too spend a little time together a little later than normal is a smashing change. We do try and keep our chatter a little quiet but on a CL site in the middle of nowhere the sound does tend too travel. We are on holiday too so a couple of late nights is nice. No crappyoky or singing though.

 

[path20]

I agree Mick, you both deserve to do what you want and relax, have a glass of wine and talk into the early hours.What I

object to is if you are keeping me us awake so we can't get to sleep because we are listening to you and yours.

We also get up at an unearthly hour to go to work. OH also works weekends. He gets one weekend in four off. That weekend off is the only time we can relax together. If you keep us awake one of those nights until the early hours then we have to wait another four weeks before we can go away again.All we are asking is that enjoy yourselves as much as you want but please be considerate of other campers. Thank you.

 

[RiffRaff]

FLIPPING HECK! what a load of old fuddy duddies. We have caravanned for 8 years now, mostly CLs and small private sites.We do tend, on occasions, to stay up late talking and having a glass of wine. My wife and I both work hard and are up at between 5.30 - 6.00 am most mornings when at home. The chance too spend a little time together a little later than normal is a smashing change. We do try and keep our chatter a little quiet but on a CL site in the middle of nowhere the sound does tend too travel. We are on holiday too so a couple of late nights is nice. No crappyoky or singing though.

well said Mick!

We are all different and enjoy different things if we were all the same we would all be in Practical Caravans top choice of the year and be in bed by 10pm!

From a personal point of view myself and my partner dont really drink apart from with a meal at a pub or resturant (odd being social outcast riff raff types), however we are also not bothered by people touring who have friends around for a few drinks in the evening even at 1am, we both have very stressfull jobs and holidays however short are real stress relief and we all relax and unwind in different ways, rather than bitching and whinging on here and to wardens about "noisy riff raff" why dont you just simply and in a plesently and in calm manor just ask if they could keep the noise down? 99% of caravanners i have met would happily keep the noise down if you simply let them know they are to loud.

I drive a recovery truck part time, when you have picked up a mangled wreck and theres still body parts of a 17 year old girl in the car you realise there is more to life than moaning about people who dont live the same lifestyle as yourself.

 

[RiffRaff]

well said Mick!

We are all different and enjoy different things if we were all the same we would all be in Practical Caravans top choice of the year and be in bed by 10pm!

From a personal point of view myself and my partner dont really drink apart from with a meal at a pub or resturant (odd being social outcast riff raff types), however we are also not bothered by people touring who have friends around for a few drinks in the evening even at 1am, we both have very stressfull jobs and holidays however short are real stress relief and we all relax and unwind in different ways, rather than bitching and whinging on here and to wardens about "noisy riff raff" why dont you just simply and in a plesently and in calm manor just ask if they could keep the noise down? 99% of caravanners i have met would happily keep the noise down if you simply let them know they are to loud.

I drive a recovery truck part time, when you have picked up a mangled wreck and theres still body parts of a 17 year old girl in the car you realise there is more to life than moaning about people who dont live the same lifestyle as yourself.

 

[colin-yorkshire]

It does not mater what your job is or wether you have a stressfull life or not there are other people on site and most sites if you bother to read info pack have a 11.00pm deadline for parties.

I for one like to be in bed by 11.00pm and want to be able to get some sleep especialy as I have to be up at 5.00am to go fishing.

 

[Guest]

I just love all the attitude of the hard workers who want to relax and party and then tell othere not to be up tight or fuddy duddies.

You are sharing space as paying guests along with others, if you can't get it in your heads that you need to respect others choices then you have a problem.

Myself and others do not go to bed expecting to be able to get off to sleep only to have to get up and go off and say a pretty pretty "please can you keep the noise down".

Someone who has gone to bed at 10.30 or 11pm and is kept awake until midnight by thoughtless antisocial neigbours on site is not only well rattled by then, but has beenexpecting the noise to have stooped by at least midnight.

When it continues after midnight, we're expected to get up, get dressed and go and politely ask for the noise to quieten down or stop and expect a reasonable response from people who have been unreasonable for between 1 and 2 hours.

Who's kidding who here ?

Forget Chat! Forget Hard Work, Forget whatever lame excuse you can come up with for late night noise.

Just always REMEMBER that you should respect and think of others around you and act accordingly. That mainly means -

BE QUIET !!!!!

That's the only issue, not tales of work related stresses and trauma and long hours.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

What a pathetic excuse you use Riff Raff for a reason to be anti-social. What about people like the police, fire or paramedics where it is part of their job.

I was dealing with body parts on a regular basis for 30 years, infact we carried body bags on the ambulance. In that 30 years I had to deal with anything that was thrown at me from suicides to murders and that including young children and babies.

At no time did I want to be a pain in the aspidestra to anyone else by saying "up yours, if you don't like it you know what you can do, now ****off".

Somebody said in a post that it takes all sorts and thankfully your kind are in the minority.

Regarding Euro's post, excellent, I couldn't have put it better myself although I doubt if it will sink in ;O)

Regards from His Windyship, the old fart :O)

 

[emmerson2]

I just love all the attitude of the hard workers who want to relax and party and then tell othere not to be up tight or fuddy duddies.

You are sharing space as paying guests along with others, if you can't get it in your heads that you need to respect others choices then you have a problem.

Myself and others do not go to bed expecting to be able to get off to sleep only to have to get up and go off and say a pretty pretty "please can you keep the noise down".

Someone who has gone to bed at 10.30 or 11pm and is kept awake until midnight by thoughtless antisocial neigbours on site is not only well rattled by then, but has beenexpecting the noise to have stooped by at least midnight.

When it continues after midnight, we're expected to get up, get dressed and go and politely ask for the noise to quieten down or stop and expect a reasonable response from people who have been unreasonable for between 1 and 2 hours.

Who's kidding who here ?

Forget Chat! Forget Hard Work, Forget whatever lame excuse you can come up with for late night noise.

Just always REMEMBER that you should respect and think of others around you and act accordingly. That mainly means -

BE QUIET !!!!!

That's the only issue, not tales of work related stresses and trauma and long hours.

Euro, I've been watching this post, and wondering whether to put in my sixpennorth, but you've just done it for me. Well said.

 

[emmerson2]

well said Mick!

We are all different and enjoy different things if we were all the same we would all be in Practical Caravans top choice of the year and be in bed by 10pm!

From a personal point of view myself and my partner dont really drink apart from with a meal at a pub or resturant (odd being social outcast riff raff types), however we are also not bothered by people touring who have friends around for a few drinks in the evening even at 1am, we both have very stressfull jobs and holidays however short are real stress relief and we all relax and unwind in different ways, rather than bitching and whinging on here and to wardens about "noisy riff raff" why dont you just simply and in a plesently and in calm manor just ask if they could keep the noise down? 99% of caravanners i have met would happily keep the noise down if you simply let them know they are to loud.

I drive a recovery truck part time, when you have picked up a mangled wreck and theres still body parts of a 17 year old girl in the car you realise there is more to life than moaning about people who dont live the same lifestyle as yourself.

What the H*ll have body parts got to do with noisy neighbours? Keep the sensationalism off this forum, please.

 

[Guest]

As a slight diversion have you noticed how on European sites usually in France that it is so quiet in the middle of the night, you can hear a pin drop. I know we are discussing late evening ribaldry etc but around about 2 am I am often amazed how a site with over 100 vans can be so quiet. Of course at 6 am the local truckers start down the lanes, but Hey Ho! that's life. I never notice it as much in the Uk probably because we get a lot more wind, even a breeze during the night. In France it can be absolutely still. The downside is that when you have to get up in the middle of the night, as I do, you are worried just how many people are 'listening in' as you are often surrounded on 4 sides by other outfits.

 

[Paul_5064559]

Worse experience we had was about 3 years ago at Utoxeter race weekend. Might have guessed when I saw the beer being un-loaded. Never again....

 

[RiffRaff]

Not once have i dissagreed that parting at small hours is antisocial not once have i disagreed that noise is antisocial, what i dont see is why others cannot relax and have some friends round have a few glasses and have a good chin wag, its not there fault that you want to get up at 5,6 or 7am to go fishing cycling or whatever thats your lifestyle choice, it seems to me theres alot of caravanners who are pretty uptight and want to moan about everything and anything councelling may be more aventagious for some of you lot rather than caravanning.

 

[emmerson2]

Not so, Riff Raff. It doesn't matter whether the party is in a caravan, an awning a tent or a house, the party-goers should consider how it affects others.It all comes down to respect for other people, but sadly, that is becoming very rare nowadays.

Perhaps we should start by teaching self-respect first...............................

 

[Coops]

We have been camping since we were 24 years old - I'm now 80. The basic principle we have applied to successful camping is that you can do what you like provided that it does not impinge on the enjoyment of others. This applies day and night. We enjoy our hobby (more a way of life, really) in an enviroment of close proximity and poor (negligible) insulation, and this makes observance of these principles not easily achieved.

Referring to the day and night bit, last winter at a Spanish campsite we have visited each year for at least the past 8 years, a group of caravanners (3 Brits and one Norwegian) set up a boules group on the our sandy terrace of the campsite (despite there being a remote designated area for this purpose) and one end of their pitch was right outside our awning door. At first it was merely an irritation, with all the raucous shouts of "you were robbed" "whose a star, then" etc. etc., but they were really enjoying themselves so we tolerated it. However on one fateful Saturday, it went on, louder than ever, for FIVE HOURS. In the friendliest possible fashion I broached the subject, received (only) some adjustment of their pitch and instant unpopularity.

The hilarious postscript to the story is that a few days later, at a communal picnic, one of the lady "boulers" and her husband were regaling all and sundry with a recent trip they had had to New Zealand, and she said in a loud voice that they had found a heavenly campsite in New Zealand but shortly after settling in, some people had started playing football behind their camper. But, she said, we soon put a stop to that !! (Her husband gave her a look that could have killed).