What’s the point of working…

[oObyeOo]

all year to save up enough money for a well earned camping in the uk holiday when your 15yr car breaks down 200 miles from home and you have to put a tent up in the rain, cancel activities that cost up to £600 and go in to debt because the car needs fixing.

It’s fucking shit

@Namechangedforthis25 and it's not hard. You can manage it.

Very strange person

I don't think you'd be able for it though annika.

God youre weird

We've got a strange one here

I’m still waiting for the bus to Walberswick!

You couldn't manage it

At midnight?

Camping by public transport when planned to do it that way, and deliberately taking the minimum/hiking tent- sure (I guess...)

Camping as a family, when you've got a packed car, then taking it all on the bus - wtf!

We are about to go camping, we have:

• a 25kg air tent (along with pump)
• gazebo
• camping kitchen
• table
• 4 chairs
• electric cool box
• inflatable mattresses/SIMs for 4 people
• 4 people's worth of clothes

That's before the kitchen equipment, lights, toys, bbq, sleeping bags, blankets etc.

It will fit in our (large) car, with the aid of a roofbox.

No we couldn't carry it on to a bus 😂😂😂

Och, just ignore sparklyjadefawn; teenage DS is autistic and there's something very familiar about that "X then Y in all circumstances" logic that poster is using. DS himself isn't that rude, but some of his ND buddies are, completely unintentionally I'm sure. Best not to point out the holes in their worldview as they just get upset.

OP, I hope you can rescue some fun from your holiday, even if it doesn't end up looking like what you planned 🤞

With 2 kids, and all the crap you need when camping?

I think you may have stayed in caravans, not proper camping.

We used to camp and the car would be chocka, kids would be sitting on duvets etc

it’s not that special going to base camps. It’s a popular tourist attraction which isn’t that hard.

I’m a teacher. I’m 40 and can’t afford to retrain.

But you suggested it before I said that. It would have been an epic! And we would have not been able to take our tent with us.

It you suggested the bus before you knew this information

Yes it is. Thank you

I was beginning to think this way too.

Either way, it’s been very entertaining

Kids and I are off camping today. Roof box is packed. The kids will carry this. Tent is on my back, kitchen table is also on my back. Chairs, well the kids will have to carry those too. Just going to walk up to the bus stop. Bus comes once a day, subject to traffic. Let’s hope it arrives today.

bloody stupid suggestion to get a bus! Ok as a single person but not a family. Clearly the poster has never been camping in the U.K. or caught a bus.

Don't be mean. The OP is understandably fed up.

Maybe I should have put a LOL on the end cos people only seem to think everyone has mean intentions!! It’s as if no one could possibly write something as a joke

Unfortunately, text is lacking in tone and it's really difficult to tell without emojis and punctuation!!!! 😔 🤔🎏

Well most people tell someone to enjoy their pity party in jest and as a lighthearted joke so I assumed that would be obvious. Won’t assume next time the same as you shouldn’t assume someone is being mean (when they are not)

Bloody hell, the comments on this thread just keep on giving!

I hope you're OK now OP - you certainly deserved to have a bit of a moan. It'll be a holiday none of you forget!

Did I miss the suggestion that you should downsize so you can afford to go abroad next year, or do we not have a full house on the bingo card?

FFS some of these responses!!!

OP you're entitled to a pity party it is really shit.

No I don't think you can load an entire cars worth of stuff into your arms and 'get on the bus' what a joke!

Sounds like you've sorted it a little bit now. Have you been to south wales before? If you give me the area and want some nice free things to do I'll have a think I'm from down that way!

Maybe you should take in ironing?

Or do childminding?

Seems to save everything on mn...

Sounds like a rotten combination of events OP, and agreeably one of those times you tap the card to save the immediate situation and remedy the card afterwards. As long as your finances will allow.

If your car can't be fixed, can the 10 year old manage if you biked with a good cafe stop in the middle? Or is there anyone else on your camp site who could help with a lift if they had a bike rack?

The comments regarding bus services did make me smile. I grew up in the city, could get a bus any place, almost any time, for a pittance.
I now live on the border of 2 counties next to each other.
You cannot get public transport to travel from one county to the next - even though it's 1 road, 10 minutes from town to town.