Well, we arrived here on
Thursday afternoon so we are at the caravan for a week. It didn't go
smoothly tbh as OH had a lot of trouble with the motor mover trying
to get it to drive the caravan up onto a block! Even more of a
problem was attaching a towing hook to the car to do it that way lol. I
stayed out the way and sat in the car with the dog. An hour later I
managed to get into the caravan and unpack. Had good internet access
when I arrived so I was happily messaging my daughter. We went into
town and did some food shopping as usual and then settled down for
the night.
The next day was Friday
and lots of people started arriving on site in various caravans and
tents. Lots of dogs around and lots of kids. The internet had almost
given up and went off completely by the afternoon. If anyone has
ever been to North Devon you will know internet is, at best, very
unreliable in the countryside. The groups started playing at 5 pm and
I must admit they were good. The camp site had gone all out for this
weekend with a stage for performers, hog roast selling beef, pork and
chicken rolls, large beer tent (for OH lol,) bouncy castle, candy
floss stall etc. etc. We took some folding chairs and got chatting to
another couple there.
Saturday morning more
people were arriving and the problems were evident! The gent's toilet and
shower block had all toilets deliberately blocked with paper – every single
toilet so not an accident! Even worse, OH said they had put down the
toilet seats and urinated on them, and thrown toilet paper
everywhere! Someone also set fire to the rubbish skip last night! The ladies toilet and shower block was clean, but you were
confronted with children on scooters riding up and down in front of
the toilets and showers, inside the block! Now, it wasn't raining and there are lots of
safe little roads around the site where kids can, and do, ride bikes
and scooters. People with disabilities use this site and I often see
people who are using a walking stick. Imagine if a scooter rode into
someone who couldn't move out of the way fast enough coming out of a shower or toilet. So, why are
parents not bothering to stop their children from using the shower
block with their scooters? And not just one child – there were
several. It was very rowdy with lots of people drunk on their way
back to their tents and caravans tonight – some singing loudly on
their way! I do feel nervous around drunken people I must admit, so I
just stayed in this evening with OH and the dog.
The dog is having a
wonderful time here going to the beach every day with OH. She loves
saying hello to all the other dogs on site. She has, unfortunately,
come into season yesterday but I am not that bothered as we have
laminate flooring in the caravan so any mess is easy to clean. Other
dogs don't seem to have noticed either so all good so far. It is her
first season at 9months old and she seems to be all OK about it.
It is Saturday night
now and there has been virtually no internet access since Friday
afternoon, apart from a few seconds here and there. I'm sending
messages to daughter and she receives them several hours later; the
same when she writes to me. There is no mobile phone signal in this
field either but they do have phone boxes by the reception building.
On the way here we drove through roads where there was no radio
signal in the car and we were tuned to the local radio station!! I
can live without a mobile phone or without internet access, but I do
find it difficult to have no access to either. I am writing this
offline as a word document and will copy it onto my blog when I get
home, or before if we reconnect here. Can hear people arguing and
swearing in the tent next door and, as it is 1 a.m. I feel sorry for those
with kids who are trying to sleep. I guess you don't get peace and
quiet at a beer and music festival on a camp site; it was a cheap
weekend price, and so has attracted some of the wrong sort of people.
The dog show weekend was so much nicer – just as busy but no noise
or damage. Perhaps dog owners are more responsible and caring about
others, I don't know.
We are leaving this
site at the end of the summer season, and I am hoping to either look
for a site near South Devon e.g. Salcombe or Plymouth, or near
Bournemouth on the south coast. I did have a quick look around
Bournemouth but some of the sites are no children, others no dogs in
June and July, which wouldn't suit us at all. Wherever we go I will
make sure I have either a mobile signal or internet. I have decided
it is very important for me to be able to communicate with family
while I am on holiday, and I feel very vulnerable without this. Here, to get a phone signal, you have to drive a mile to the main road which
I find unacceptable. Infact it is one of my sister's birthday today and unless I leave the site I can't ring, text or message her, which is not too great. Others may feel they like to be un-contactable
and enjoy not having a mobile phone or internet but it's not for me.
Bye for now All the best x
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