Sat in car on a campsite. Happy Holidays

[babysgotthespends]

Morning All, after an accident involving urine in the sleeping bag me (not guilty) and 4 year old are sat in car on a campsite in Pembrokeshire waiting for rest of family to wake up. Wish I could say it was a beautiful view watching the sea/sunrise or listening to birdsong but we’re both fed up and tired. She’ll probably fall asleep but I shall silently seethe and think of my dry, sweet smelling bed at home. It’s day 2! But no more rain. Apparently. Been here since 5:30am. Can I hear your holiday horror stories whilst I hold my own bladder and wait for a reasonable time to wake everyone else up. Thanks 😭

Many years ago I camped in Russia with 60 other British students on a trip run by ex-Russian army guys. They offered to supply tents, sleeping bags and food. We were going to be hiking in the beautiful Caucasus mountains. Sounded lovely.

It rained solidly for seven days. We were carrying heavy rucksacks. The tents had no poles and we had to break branches of trees to replace them. There weren't enough sleeping bags but we were nice and cosy because there were four adults in a very basic three man tent. Apart from all being soaked obviously. One girl nearly got hypothermia and a student who was a marines cadet helped her survive as the "leaders" couldn't care less. We walked across a river and all the leaders were at the front smoking, nobody counting heads to check nobody drowned. And the food provided was tinned "meat" with boiled buckwheat porridge every day. 🤮

It was one of those "so bad it was funny afterwards" trips. Me and my tent mates really bonded in adversity.

I have a cousin who is quite a few years younger than me. I lived in London and I had him for a few days. On the last day he was adamant we got home via the tube, it was summer, it was rush hour, he's had not much more than icecream.

He turned to me and said, "I don't feel well", then he fainted.

But I was lucky, he is always ill on holiday.

He woke his dad up on holiday in France because of tummy ache and ended up leaving his appendix behind having been removed by a French surgeon.

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Something to look forward to - there’s great harbourside fish and chips at The Shed in Porthgain. It’s about 7 miles from St David’s 😊

This wasn’t me, but my best friend. She was camping on a remote sand island which was a National park. (We are in Aus.) There was another family staying there and she was extremely concerned about them letting their four year old play with a machete. She had put her two little boys in the back, zipped up part of their tent to sleep and heard her eldest crying. (He was about 5 or 6). She went in to find a hole in the tent and her son bleeding profusely from his face. They had to call a rescue helicopter to take him to hospital. Luckily no major nerves or arteries severed. (Rather close to his neck!). The idiots in the next tent shrugged off the damage their kid had caused and the potential for a more lethal accident and refused to take away the machete until police were called.

DP left half of his big toenail on an asphalt football pitch when attempting a penalty kick in flip flops on our first day in Majorca.

Turned it into a bonus by thoroughly enjoying the attentions of the red clad female lifeguard who came rushing and fussing over his poor toe.

Blood everywhere. Toddler DS bemused. Fkn idiot.

We flew to Florida in June just gone and my DS12 basically vomited all the way over. He began by projectile vomiting all over himself, clothes ruined and stinking. That's over an 8 hour flight. Great holiday though.......................once we landed 😁

Oh, and also when she was about 8, my younger stepdaughter vomited in the car within 10 minutes of us starting a 2-day journey home from the Alps. It got into the fabric seat covering and the seatbelt and it stank the whole way home 🤮😱.

20 years on I still feel it’s my duty to remind her of this every now and then 🤣🤣🤣

We got a flat tire in a safari park in Kenya. While her Dad was changing it my daughter vomited. She was in the back seat I was in the front. Not fun.

So, they're not even teenagers? You've got some tough years ahead.
What will you do with them when you want to go on holiday?
It's one thing to leave a 16 year old at home while you go away, but it's not possible with young teenagers.

Coach/camping holiday in Salou when I was about 10. We had beds own sleeping bag, electric, a fridge and hob in the tent. The bus was late it should have been a 2 o'clock pickup. Rep eventually comes and tells us our bus has broken down and they're trying to fix it. Get told we can sit outside our tents but not go inside.

We had drinks and picnic food for the bus but of course we needed tea it all got eaten and most of us had spent our pesatas. Get's to 8 o'clock still waiting and we've drunk most of what we had we can usually buy food and drinks on the bus or at service stations and the ferry etc.

Then us kids find some bottles of pop, water and snacks in the rep's cabin so we of course helped ourselves. It was a joint effort of most the kids that were travelling back that day. Kids were getting tired as it got to 10/11. The rep's let us have the use of one tent for the kids. There was kids lying everywhere I was on the floor in my sleeping bag.

It was coming up to one o'clock when we eventually left. They got us another coach that already had some people from a hotel. Just the people with kids tho rest had to wait. One family who had a toddler and the dad's younger brothers kicked up a fuss and got flown home. Couldn't blame them.

We get's to France we get told we are meeting the now fixed bus at a service station. Two women paid £5 for a sandwich because they'd had nothing to eat. This was 97 so expensive back then.

So bus arrives and we're told not to sit downstairs was a double decker coach. So goes to sit upstairs me being a kid along with other kids hadn't noticed. Get told to get back off it's not safe. There was a live cable running through the floor of the bus.

So we had to wait for another bus I don't know why they just didn't do that in the first place. We missed our ferry crossing so not sure if the company had to stump up the money to pay for our tickets again.

Parents did try and get some compo but weren't successful. Bear in mind it's 1 1/2 day's travel through Spain, France, the ferry crossing then up to the north to our drop off point. We then had another journey from there back home. People needed to get back for work etc. So yeah we were pretty p*ed off.

DS2 was once sick in street after drinking bubblegum flavoured squash. DH went off to find water and tissues and some very proper ladies walked past and one said 'Whatever has his mother given him?!' in very strong pearl clutching tones! Tbf it was sort of fluorescent blue!

Anyone camping with kids let alone a 4yo, needs a medal the size of Barafundle Beach quite frankly.

We love camping! But it does have its quirks!

The time my three year old had a night terror and woke half the campsite, wetting himself in the process.

The time the foreign couple in the tent next to us engaged in loud porno style sex and woke all our children up.

The time my husband and children had a sickness bug and bedswapped one by one until all the campbeds and sleeping bags were covered in sick....fun times!

@TibetanTerrah I want to know what happened to the ping-pong ball

I'venot been camping often but there was one time on a tiny island off Skye. I woke up in the middle of the night desperate for a wee. Had to climb across my tent mates (sorry), and went a decent distance to answer the call. Then I realised it was pitch black, I couldn't see anything, I had no idea where the tents were and there were cliffs.

We've had numerous issues with Dd projectile vomiting over the years - she had reflux as a baby so is very used to it, and prone to travel sickness. But more than once on planes (turbulence coming into HK set her off as we were landing and she filled 3 bags in quick succession - we knew lots of people on the plane going to a sailing event so they were trying to do what they could around us as we were "seat belts on" point and no attendants moving. We were able to grab the emergency change of clothes from hand luggage to change before getting off though as we were so far down the back. Just as well, we had another 3 hour journey by peiplecarrier to the event with a family we didn't know beforehand.

Dh is a veteran of early morning stops by the police but being waved on, as he used to try and get her to sleep by driving after pacing the floor for hours at times - fine locally but there was a bit of bemusement in France!

I hope you get sorted this morning and a chance for a siesta as well.

Literally no idea why people go on camping holidays with small kids

what kind of holiday is it?! What do you get out of it?!

if you’re gonna stay you’re gonna needs loads of wine OP

we went to stay with relatives,
long long drive to get there,
dds shared the guest double bed
dd wet said bed! - she wasnt a toddler but it had been a very long journey
quite lack of sympathy from relatives, matress left out in the sun
never forgotten, by me anyway.

one night of camping on the way back from miles away,
just one night
ds obviusly didnt like the food
vomited in the night all over sleeping bags.

@IcakethereforeIam my brother took a leisurely stroll down the set of steps that ran down the side of the cliff and retrieved it. I didn't know the steps were there so stacked it for nothing!

Aw!

One of my friends got a bit merry camping, and went to bed drunk. He woke up in the middle of the night, as he needed to be sick. Zipped open the tent, stuck his head through and was sick. Zipped back up, and went to sleep. Only to wake on the morning, hung over, and realising he'd been sleeping outside of his tent the whole night. So he'd actually opened the tent, and was sick inside it 😂. Luckily no one was sharing a tent with him!

I'll never forget my first holiday with baby twins - it rained all week apart from one day, every item of clothing and bedding was puked or shat on, my mum came and stayed with us and got food poisoning....it wasn't a huge amount of fun I have to admit.

It's ok, I can laugh about it now. Said twins are 13 years old now by the way.

So true, when our 'children', 40+ now, talk about some of our holidays it's usually the disasters/near misses that they remember, one still reminds us of how she was responsible for finding us a room in an almost booked up place in the States for example. Any teacher will tell you that however wonderful a school trip was, when they come to write about it it'll be who was sickest on the coach!

Our most memorable trip camping was when we had a folding caravan. While staying in N Devon we went out on one blustery day and came home at the end to find heavy winds had ripped through the site. It had torn our awning from its tie down and ripped the canvas on the main part of the folding van. DH stood in the rain hand stitching it.

On the same holiday the skips on the park were suddenly full of broken and abandoned tents as people bailed due to the bad weather.

Once our tent blew down in the middle of the night ( in a storm, damaged, destroyed!) and we got into the car and the dog and child started vomiting 😅