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Travedra campsite Sennon

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 16:16

Anyone there last week?

I met some great women who must have been mumsnutters
Mainly in the laundrette trying to dry out clothes!

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SorenLorensen · 05/08/2008 17:00

Sennen - in Cornwall? I wasn't there last week but I love Sennen - all my childhood holidays were spent there. Did you have a good holiday?

MrsDougRoss · 05/08/2008 17:08

This thread made me leap in excitemnet i went to this very campsite every year for till i was 17, we were in caravan though. I do not think it had a laundrette then. I am hoping to take the kids there next year.

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:11

no we didn't soren - it rained everyday bar 1

lovely place though - yes sennen!!

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:13

here

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Whizzz · 05/08/2008 17:13

ooo I love the Roundhouse Gallery & the crab soup in the pub!

SorenLorensen · 05/08/2008 17:14

We stayed here for years and years and years though it looks far more 'all mod cons' than when we were kids. We camped initially then stayed in a static caravan. There was a tiny shop - a wooden hut really, and toilets and showers in a concrete outbuilding. Really basic! And when we did upgrade to a caravan, which seemed like a big step up, we had no electricity (just gas lights) and no toilet/shower or hot water - you still had to trek up to the toilet block. But we had the most fantastic holidays there - it was always sunny, and we just ran wild, and Sennen (I still think) is the best beach ever.

MrsDougRoss · 05/08/2008 17:14

My Dad was there 2 weeks ago, but do not think you mean him. It can be an awful if the weatther is bad. I remember when the mist sets in and you could not see your nose. Did your tent stay up? He siad lots were flattened this year/

SorenLorensen · 05/08/2008 17:15

Awww, I'm sorry you had crap weather, beety - Cornwall is such an outdoorsy place you really need the sun to shine. I want to go now though (and we were only there in May/June!)

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:16

\linkwww.whitesandshotel.co.uk\ this place is fantastic} had diner there and took 8 kids. The place was wonderful just wonderful

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:18

the sennen cove beach is really not that g reat now.

the life guards are a nightmare all whistles and quad bikes.

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:18

this place is fantastic

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MrsDougRoss · 05/08/2008 17:20

we always used to go to the beach from the campsite, the one down the big hill, it is probably not as big now, but used to take us ages to get back up

SorenLorensen · 05/08/2008 17:20

The lifeguards are quite militant these days - still want to go now though!

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:21

Mrs D yes tyhat one si great - still life guard maniacs though. but kids loved it

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MrsDougRoss · 05/08/2008 17:22

the tide used to be a bit mad ad there is a shelf when he tide comes in so, it got deep really quickly. Dad used to just throw us in. Ah the memories

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:24

yes that deep water is amazing and then when the tide goes out you can wolk forages

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snorkle · 05/08/2008 17:45

Some friends of ours were there beetroot. We only ever see them in Cornwall, but they phoned last week to say they were going down. Quite noticable looks, 13yo dd and baby ds. As far as I know they don't mumsnet. They used to have a traditional canvas tent, but now have an old camper van I think.

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 17:53

oh snorkle - dn't think I saaw them

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reallygutted · 05/08/2008 18:09

They may have seen the weather forecast and changed their minds beetroot! So sorry it was wet for you - it is truely glorious there in the sun.

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 18:17

I think we will go again next year. it was a family event 18 of us all togeterh and that made it fun.

I tried to persuade them to to Brittany next year but they are not that adventrous

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theexmrsfederer · 05/08/2008 19:19

We were at Sennen Cove two summers ago (the last time we actually HAD a summer).

We had two glorious weeks of sunny hot days one after the other on the beach. I LOVE the way the tide comes in so quickly and fiercely, takes so many people by surprise (not in a dangerous way, just getting your beach rug and picnic lunch wet through!)

When we got home we were so tanned people thought we had been abroad!

I LIKE the lifeguards to be bossy, at least you know they are taking care of peoples safety.

Ohhh, I want to go back now. I expect it is nowhere near the same if you can't stretch out in your bikini. What a shame for the OP, you truly didn't get the best of it. British weather-pah!

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Beetroot · 05/08/2008 19:36

the life guards hae changed I think and are now ridiculous,
it was life the middle of London - manic gestures and louds whistles and speeding quad bikes.

all was fine - they were being too cautiosu

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