so we are back! from our very first camping outing
thank you so much for tent recommendation Peach and MB - our Khyam Ontario 8 was great and the most convenient tent for a child with a walking frame
and after the initial shock of unpacking the double airbeds that my dad had lent to us, to find that one of them was a single, and the kids had to sleep with their feet on blankets, everything went v well (esp after trip to camping shop on Sat )
we went here which was v nice but all stuff about 'staying on a farm' a bit of a stretch
anyhoo, we do have some issues now that we need a bit of help with if mners are up to it
the real reason we are camping is because of dd1, who walks with a walking frame, and the very low number of disabled accessible holiday cottages (and the even lower number of same that are not designed for little old people)
but at the weekend there were lots of children roaming, playing, climbing, and dd1 got a bit sick of answering their questions about why she was in a frame. At home everyone is used to seeing her about so she doesn't have to deal with that so much, but it happened all the time and the kids, being kids, weren't particularly polite about it. Also we realised that in a couple of years dd2 will be old enough to join these children, and dd1 will be left out, being unable to run around fields/ climb trees and walls/ play games in the same way (and her speech takes a bit of a while to 'tune into', so children decide more or less straight away that they don't understand her and stop trying
so are there smaller sites that we can go to? tbh we aren't really bothered about facilities - we don't want a playground, we could even do without loos since we are going to have to get a luggable loo because it takes dd1 so long to walk to the toilet unless you are right next to it
when we caravanned as a child there used to be places (CLs) where you could go where there were 5 vans tops, usually in some farmer's field or someone with a massive back garden
are there teh same kind of thing for tents? or is there a way of picking little sites? or are they all big and is this what kids do on camping holidays, in which case we need to rethink a bit
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