http://twiteystipis.co.uk/Update:In light of the pitches-for-several-small-tents arrangements, I've agreed to coordinate a group booking. The site have agreed to take individual payments through their website - you should book a standard grass pitch (unless you fancy the luxury of a tipi or a yurt), and say you're with YACF in the notes field of the booking form. The payment system automagically adds a car fee to the booking
[1], but they will refund this in cash on arrival if you turn up by bike.
Let me know if you're coming, so we have a firm idea of numbers.
Current attenders (in order of appearance):andrewc
Kim
cycleman (but not Apollo)
?Clarifliesbikepacker ?+another (circumstances permitting)
Cudzoziemiec
Salvatore
JBB
Wowbagger
?CanardlyI make that 8 confirmed and 1 possibles.
Anyone else?
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Breaking this out from the
Instead-of-Midlenhall thread:
I found a camping site near Stratford upon Avon called twiteys tipis , lowe farm,
Hunscote lane, weĺlesbourne,Warwick, Warwickshire cv35 9ex which might make a nice forum meeting place
Having had time to have a proper look, it does seem promising. Facilities, FIRE, non-tent options for anyone who's logistically challenged. And they'll have more than one small tent on a 10m pitch.
Location is an easy ride from Stratford-upon-Avon (which has bike-friendly local trains to Stourbridge via Middle Earth, and Leamington Spa), or a bit further from Coventry, which is on the mainline.
[...] some good cycling around those parts. The roads into Stratford can all be a bit busy, but you can find nice rolling lanes in most other directions.
I also note the airfield opposite the site has an audax-approved cafe (and, undoubtedly, wheelpants), as does the hayfever centre at Charlecote. It's also within cycling distance of Henley-in-Icecream.
I know of Michael Twite that owns the place - he's a landscape gardener and his men did a load of work at our house in SuA about 2004 - I didn't know he was doing the camping stuff.
Various positive comments above are all pretty true : there is an easy and safe way into SuA via Loxley, the Touchdown Cafe at Wellesbourne Airfield (about 400 yards from Michael's place) is a regular push and motor-cycle stop serving the all-day breakfast to die for and the ultimate bread-pudding (it's also an Audax control now and again), there is a Sainsburys about a mile away, a Co-op and 2 pubs in Wellesbourne, a few places of interest around with loads of quiet lanes ... and there's an LBS called Cycle Route Warks in the centre of Wellesbourne village managed by a smashing bloke who's really helpful*
The one possible downside, but only for a few hours, is that there is a MASSIVE market at Wellesbourne Airfiled (the other side from the campsite) on Saturdays and Bank Holiday Mondays (from about 0900 - 1500) and traffic on the main Warwick/M40junc - Stow/Cirencester road gets busy.
Rob
* there's a picture of the LBS manager at left hand side of this post
Plan is for the weekend of the 7th of September.
[1] Not sure if this is bad web design, or due to too many people turning up with cars they hadn't paid for.