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OT: Caravanning in Cornwall
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Yes I know, but...
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Sheesh.
Reasons Why The Isle of Man is the Greatest Nation on Earth :
# 27: Towing a caravan is illegal.
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Really? I need to move.
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Seriously. I only found out last year, and was amazed. You can get a
special licence if you're a racer, which allows you to tow your
caravan from the ferry port to the paddock and back, but nowhere else.
Even the caravans they use at the marshalling points are delivered and
collected using a low-loader.
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"Sensible policies for a better Britain"
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Driving into work on the M5 yesterday the chap towing a 'van in front
of me lost control and it spun. Ended up facing the wrong way down
the motorway. Amazing it didn't turn over although it did take
another driver to drive it off the motorway as the original driver was
busy changing his pants.
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I thought the place couldn't get any better, but it just has.
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away with you and your diluvian emergency accommodation!
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But does anyone know of a small, quiet caravan site in Cornwall, near the
coast if poss, no kids if poss, with electric hook ups.
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Try Pembrokeshire instead - like Cornwall but without the tourists and rip-
off prices.
On the down-side it's in Wales, but you can't have everything.
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If you want to try Pembrokeshire you can't do better than Parrog (Newport).
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Die, spawn of Satan.
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Odd name for a caravan site, that is. Perfectly reasonable name, mind.
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We don't want one of these ultra-large caravan sites where you're in like
sardines and are noisy, full of kids, etc.
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Talking of caravans....
At work we're battening down the hatches and making sure everything is
properly locked.
The Travellers have returned to the business park.
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BAe had problems of that nature some years ago. They solved them by
ground-running F-111s down that end of the airfield...
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I stayed here a couple of years ago:
It was primarily for diving. The guy has a very impressive air station
for fills etc., and it is half way between the north and south coast so
diving was not limited by on shore winds because you could always go to
the other coast. Very good local pub.
I towed the van down over night so only had heavy goods vehicles to
share the roads with. To my mind that meant drivers who knew what they
were doing, not "Jack the Lad" in the white Transit or the mixture of
'egits' that fill up the roads in the day time.
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