Cycle Camping Excitement

[cycleman]

i always read your reports clarion and butterfly so please keep writing them.another meet i could not afford to go to . i am hoping to get to watlington and maybe milldenhall this year . i always read the trip reports on this forum and it leaves me wanting to get out and tour again

[Canardly]

+1

[clarion]

The camp site is a C&CC site but they wont take a booking for one night over the weekend.  I will be an "offroader" apparently.  For the uninitiated, including me, that is someone who just turns up on spec looking for a pitch overnight.  I hope they have a spare one. 

the C&CC have a club policy of "finding somewhere" for a backpacker or cyclist(ie:- non-motorised) overnighter.

Absolutely.  I hope that the site remembers.  If not, let us know, and the ALC will have a word

[clarion]

i always read your reports clarion and butterfly so please keep writing them.another meet i could not afford to go to . i am hoping to get to watlington and maybe milldenhall this year . i always read the trip reports on this forum and it leaves me wanting to get out and tour again

Well, we should be at both of those

[Arch]

When we arrived, there were some folk putting up a nylon mansion.  We chatted, pitched, mashed a brew and noticed that they were still pitching for quite a long time after us.  I couldn't bear to have a tent which took so long to put up.  When I get to a site, I want my brew asap.

On Saturday afternoon, as MFWHTBAB and I relaxed in our trikes beside our tents, a couple arrived and started putting up a large tent - the sort you can stand up in.  It seemed to take ages, and when I said, an hour later, "Blimey they haven't finished yet!", MFWHTBAB said "Oh, I expect they are still painting the second bathroom..."

[JT]

The camp site is a C&CC site but they wont take a booking for one night over the weekend.  I will be an "offroader" apparently.  For the uninitiated, including me, that is someone who just turns up on spec looking for a pitch overnight.  I hope they have a spare one. 

the C&CC have a club policy of "finding somewhere" for a backpacker or cyclist(ie:- non-motorised) overnighter.

But that policy doesn't extend to booking in advance. A month or so ago I tried to book 7 cycle campers (6 tents) into the C&CC Woodhall Spa site (I'm a C&CC member) and they weren't willing to relax their two night minimum stay policy.  They also wanted to know the exact dimensions of every tent. 

We camped somewhere else.

[LindaG]

i always read your reports clarion and butterfly so please keep writing them.another meet i could not afford to go to . i am hoping to get to watlington and maybe milldenhall this year . i always read the trip reports on this forum and it leaves me wanting to get out and tour again

Well, we should be at both of those

Yes, a really nice ride report.  Somerset in the spring is just bliss, you evoked some happy memories 

[Pedaldog.]

Cue the Bryan Ferry bit...  "I'm just a jealous Guy!"

Sounds like a great time and I look forward to maybe doing a few trips myself in the next year or so. Nice write up.

[clarion]

Looking forward to seeing you in a field somewher, 'Dog!

[petes46]

OK, another long post coming up.  I guess only Butterfly & me will read it, but it's fun to write.

I've also managed to read it, though it's taking me a while to catch up with everything on the forum!

I left with Dennis and Jim because I'm lazy and didn't have to work out a route for the next section of the trip.   

We headed for the C&CC site at Priddy.  Given that I hadn't found the kitchen sink (definitely a Belfast) which someone had hidden in my trailer, I was very glad that we went via Wells and didn't have to tackle the road up through Wookey.

The weather stayed a bit damp over the next couple of days and it even hailed that night.  Not the sort of thing I expect in late May.

[cycleman]

i thought you attracted moisture  .are you going to put a trip report up of your last few weeks adventures ?. i something more to read  .

[The Mechanic]

Just a quick report on the C&CC site at Tarland in Aberdeenshire.  Got a pitch no bother and at backpacker rate since I was under my own steam.  Cost £8.40.  Showers and toilets were clean, pitch was flat and the site was quiet.  Full marks in my limited experience.  Also has a laundry and Wi-Fi.

[clarion]