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Compared to the Bessacarr - it was luxury.
Separate rooms, with doors - amazing!
Even though the single beds were only 2ft 6" - as were the doorways :-D :-D

<3@ madge :-D :-D

Wow Maggie it was certainly a huge caravan.
But when I get in my kingsize bed at night , I do have comfort and luxury and am grateful.

Florence in the Hebrides

Edit; heaven forbid I would be forced to live"in the jungle" for 2 weeks..lol I would be screaming. "get me out of here" before darkfall!!

Camping or Caravans ,,,,,dont like it at all.

I like to flick a switch and feel carpet beneath my feet.

:-D :-D.

Thank you, Florence.
I haven't mentioned the converted bus, have I? (I was 4ish)
After the Bessacarr caravan, we got a 'Swedish Cottage' caravan.
This was so big, it came in 2 parts
It had a double bedroom, 2 singles (about 5ft by 6ft), a living room and a separate kitchen!
It also had a bathroom - with a plumbed in bath, and flushing toilet :-D

There was so much room in this caravan, it actually had a veranda - with French windows.
My avatar shows me, on the veranda on, I think, my 8th birthday - with my new bike :-D :-D

Here's a picture showing the full veranda, in all it's glory, the French windows open - and the front door!
The downpipe on the right wall is where the caravan split in half.

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Gal after my own heart Florence <3

Maggie you really deserved a medal. hats off to those that camp and caravan. I know many friends who thoroughly enjoy but its just not for me.
I never enjoyed roughing it at a party on the floor in a sleeping bag either..lol

Its bad enough when the electric goes off here and we cant have a shower!

Florence in the hebrides

I have to say that as a child 40s/50s I only ever had one holiday away from home and that was in a house on the I.O.W owned by a relative of a neighbour where I slept top and tail with my sister and we had to get water from the well as there was none on tap. Other than that we just had days out (we did have a car). and the only tent I ever saw was one constructed by my dad from a large sheet and a step ladder in the garden.

same here Madge. I was asking for a friend :-D

OMG Island I am getting on a bit now you know I dont wear heels now a days sensible brogues for me ......don't tell Eldrick ;-)

I think glamping is having tough groundsheets so your stilettos don't go through :-D

I can not see the point Island :-D


Staying in a bed and breakfast or Caravan is my idea of champing :-D

Not even a spot of glamping Madge?

Do you mean sleeping in a tent ? Or a Caravan ?

If you mean a tent, then no not as a child and as an adult I can think of nothing worse .

Did a bit when I first left school, using an old two man ex-army 'bivvy'

Never forget one morning in Derbyshire when we were staying on a farm.

My mate and I were woken by a couple of girls trying to enter our tent and then screaming :-0

It appears that their boyfriends, in a much larger tent pitched adjacent, had told the girls that our tent was the boys supply tent and the girls were expecting to find food, not two pimply youths.

Did a lot in the Army Reserve and after several years of that I was put of for life.

Oh goodness yes, camping was a brilliant holiday when I was younger. We started off with a large tent, but soon moved onto a trailer tent. We had camping holidays right from when our children were just a few months old until they left home.
We went to France for three weeks every summer, using municipal campsites on the beach where we would be the only English people.
We had lots of weekends away in this country as well. It is a fantastic holiday for children, just unzip the tent in a morning and they would play in the centre of the field with all the other children until bed time.
My son still camps with his wife, my daughter started camping with her first child as well, but has had to stop because it isn’t feasible with the second one being disabled.

I must admit that in my older age, I am now a big fan of five star hotels :-D

When I was young I spent many a happy summer holidays camping. We're talking about the 1950s/60s. School would finish and off we'd go for nearly 6 weeks travelling all over Europe spending the first two weeks visiting places of culture and then last 3 weeks by the sea in either southern France, Spain or Italy.

At that time there weren't many British cars on the roads of Europe and I remember, especially in northern France, people standing by the roadside doing the Churchill victory sign when they saw a car with GB on it......now they would most probably do another another V sign :-(

Camping gave us the freedom to visit so many places with the informality that a young child absolutely loves with every year being a new adventure. I look back now and think how lucky I was to visit all those places that had, at that time, been untouched by tourism and making friends with children of other nationalities; although I have to admit I never really appreciated it at the time :-0.

Happy memories :-D <3

Don't think I could do it now......I love my creature comforts far too much :-D

Camping ? used to be a term used by Jules and Sandy in Round the Horne.

For a few years, we rented a house for family holidays - then the family grew and the cost became astronomical.
Now, we camp.
Younger daughter had her wedding reception, 5 years ago, at a village cricket club.
We had use of the pavilion for cooking, showers and toilet facilities, but had tents to sleep in.
Nephew got married at a camp site 2 years ago - and, yes,we slept in tents.
Elder daughter does so much camping, she bought a bell tent.
Nephew was so impressed - he now also has a bell tent.
My elder sister (67) does the Duke of Edinburgh scheme - and (obviously) regularly camps.
Having said that, sister and I will be going to visit our elder brother in Somerset soon.
We've camped there before, but this time, my sister's hired a holiday home! :-D

However, the family holiday will be on a campsite!

Umm, Florence, I lived in a caravan for quite a bit of my life too!
In one - the 'Bessacarr' - we had a bath - but it wasn't plumbed in.
A few planks of wood and a piece of foam - 'voila' - my bed :-S

There were bunk beds on the other side, where one brother and my sister slept.
Elder brother had been sent to Holbrook (boarding school) as we didn't have enough room. My other brother was sent the following year - and I then had a bed - until the school holidays.

This was in Lossiemouth. I think it was the Bessacarr we were in during the winter of 1962/63. The caravan was snowed in.
Caravan doors open outwards - or not at all when you're snowed in - and the loo was (yet again) a bucket in a shed!

Gosh! My memories of putting up a huge tent on top on a cliff top in Cornwall in a force 8 gale whilst people in luxury caravans watched me and then boyfriend struggle getting drenched, are still etched on my mind 30 years later!!.
Eventually got the tent up but I wanted to go and find a cheap hotel but he said that wasn't in the spirit of things..lol


I hated not having a shower or bath for 3 days and my hair was looking awful. never slept a wink either as I was worried we would be floating in the sea next morning.


Nope not for me or a caravan.I experienced many of those as a child with parents and 2 brothrs...squashed is how I remember it.


Nope comfy b & B or travel lodge as long as it has a comfy bed, clean shower with hairdryer and the room is warm in winter.

I think the older we get, we just like a few luxuries and why not!

Florence in the hebrides