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Feb 2021
10:06am, 2 Feb 2021
7,330 posts
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Northern Exile
Skye was busy enough with camper vans last time I was there Ronnie
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Feb 2021
10:09am, 2 Feb 2021
1,941 posts
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RunningRonnie
Yeah, this is my point. I've been a couple of times before, so would really rather not add to that. Orkney and Shetland are great, but by the time you've paid for the van and a couple of passengers onto the ferry you could have paid for a trip to the south of France.
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Feb 2021
10:14am, 2 Feb 2021
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Gobi
So the proper northern jocks can possibly help me out here. As a little boy I did a week in a 2cv camping around Tongue. I had to look on a map to see where it was. Is it still remote and quiet all the way up there ?
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Feb 2021
10:14am, 2 Feb 2021
1,942 posts
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RunningRonnie
Just thinking too... do people use campsites? I guess if I turned up somewhere busy and there are vans in laybys everywhere, having a booked slot at a campsite would make me feel less of a nuisance.
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Feb 2021
10:15am, 2 Feb 2021
1,943 posts
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RunningRonnie
You're pretty much right on the NC500 there Gobi, so a lot busier than it used to be. I remember driving it and seeing two cars 20 years ago.
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Feb 2021
10:20am, 2 Feb 2021
11,065 posts
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Mandymoo
We use sites, but tend to go for the same ones, rather than big company run ones
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Feb 2021
10:24am, 2 Feb 2021
73,038 posts
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Gobi
Brilliant , shows I know nothing about the north of Scotland even if I have raced across part of it :¬)
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Feb 2021
10:30am, 2 Feb 2021
124 posts
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Limegreenjelly
We have had our camper a year now! Last August we managed 2 weeks away touring, we worked our way through Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland and Scotland and back down again, nothing was booked, we did do quite a few campsites RunningRonnie! I was running every day at 5am in a different place! Best holiday I’ve ever had!
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Feb 2021
10:34am, 2 Feb 2021
1,944 posts
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RunningRonnie
Sounds amazing Limegreen...
Fancy doing your running on holiday again this week?? 80 WSW squares in a morning? I'll never catch that! LMAO
I've been in some very nice campsites with a tent, so I think I'd be keen to use some in the van too.
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Feb 2021
10:52am, 2 Feb 2021
7,331 posts
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Northern Exile
Ronnie - we very rarely use campsites, but then we use our van as a base for fell-running and mountain trekking, so tend to go to more remote spots. Things are changing though, local residents are much less tolerant of wild camping. I've seen that in the Lakes very recently and also here in Yorkshire.
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Camper Van Query
Mar 2019