grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
I am taking my once in a good while week away in the Yorkshire Dales, UK, an area of the country I've so far neglected, though I've been to the Lake District nearby many times, and visited other areas of Yorkshire often enough, (having once lived in the east of the county for a coupe of years).
My choice was to try to save my pennies, (/nickels), and camp out, or head for a B & B establishment, (previously having found farmhouse B & B's suited me best, and were fairly competitively priced, and camping out whilst the weather is fairly good won the day.
I've been derided many times for having this romantic notion of holidaying under canvas, an almost "back to nature" idea, and yet I do believe folks who dont try it simply dont realise they are missing out on things in life by going for comfort or high star ratings etc., etc.
Now I mustn't exaggerate here too much, there is a shower area, (if you choose to use it, only for wimps really!), and you can charge your mobile phone, (which again is great but even better is the fact there's no signal on the network I use for my main mobile phone, the one most people try to contact me on, so I'm unavailable for a good period each day now whilst I'm here, (not that I get many calls you understand! ).
There you are, I know appearances are important, or even all important these days, making the right impression, telling folks you know or work with how lavishly you've holidayed and all that, but there is another world out there, more basic, less self-obsessed, where you can be as my dear old dad used to say, "Mr. Nobody with a shilling/dime in your pocket"!
My choice was to try to save my pennies, (/nickels), and camp out, or head for a B & B establishment, (previously having found farmhouse B & B's suited me best, and were fairly competitively priced, and camping out whilst the weather is fairly good won the day.
I've been derided many times for having this romantic notion of holidaying under canvas, an almost "back to nature" idea, and yet I do believe folks who dont try it simply dont realise they are missing out on things in life by going for comfort or high star ratings etc., etc.
Now I mustn't exaggerate here too much, there is a shower area, (if you choose to use it, only for wimps really!), and you can charge your mobile phone, (which again is great but even better is the fact there's no signal on the network I use for my main mobile phone, the one most people try to contact me on, so I'm unavailable for a good period each day now whilst I'm here, (not that I get many calls you understand! ).
There you are, I know appearances are important, or even all important these days, making the right impression, telling folks you know or work with how lavishly you've holidayed and all that, but there is another world out there, more basic, less self-obsessed, where you can be as my dear old dad used to say, "Mr. Nobody with a shilling/dime in your pocket"!