A civilised green laning trip

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suew

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I have just been thinking how lovely it would be if someone (not me) was to organise a green laning trip which didn't involve sleeping on the ground.

Why not a nice B&B or hotel somewhere. Minimum requirements, bed, heating, breakfast, en suite, evening meal, TV, internet connection and a bar.

Absolutely banned are sleeping on the floor, washing cooking pans in grotty sinks in cold water, using manky shared showers and toilet blocks and freezing to death. Bunk barns aren't much better either.

If it was out of season they might let us light a bonfire, note the omission of the word camp :p:p

Anyone else interested
 
suew said:
I have just been thinking how lovely it would be if someone (not me) was to organise a green laning trip which didn't involve sleeping on the ground.

Why not a nice B&B or hotel somewhere. Minimum requirements, bed, heating, breakfast, en suite, evening meal, TV, internet connection and a bar.

Absolutely banned are sleeping on the floor, washing cooking pans in grotty sinks in cold water, using manky shared showers and toilet blocks and freezing to death. Bunk barns aren't much better either.

If it was out of season they might let us light a bonfire, note the omission of the word camp :p:p

Anyone else interested
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Oooohh is this the Rangie section -up-market laning :D Just need to find some up-market LZ members ,with up-market incomes too :D
 
110woman said:
Oooohh is this the Rangie section -up-market laning :D Just need to find some up-market LZ members ,with up-market incomes too :D
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Actually, unless you go out a lot it would probably be cheaper. By the time you pay for the camp site, buy the food, BBQ, tent, sleeping bag, stove etc etc, you could have stayed somewhere nice :D:D:D
 
And I would prefer a Travel Lodge to a tent, bet you dont see many Rangies in their car parks :D:D
 
suew said:
Actually, unless you go out a lot it would probably be cheaper. By the time you pay for the camp site, buy the food, BBQ, tent, sleeping bag, stove etc etc, you could have stayed somewhere nice :D:D:D
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I agree if you were to have to buy all that stuff for a trip, but i guess most people have most of it or borrow or share the rest and you then have it for ever more , whereas a hotel is just the one off.

I have to say the camaraderie afterwards when camping - shared cooking, drinking etc is what makes it for me- people stopping in a B&B/hotel will drift away I fear afterwards, lulled by hot baths and comfy beds.

More power to your elbow though if enough people can afford it/fancy it :)
 
I can see what you are saying, but it doesn't have to be expensive. Travel Lodge do rooms for £20 a night thats £10 each if there are two or £6.66 if three share. Campsites can be that much.

I'm not actually suggesting Travel Lodge, but most trips are not in the really busy season, so it might be affordable.

Just a thought from someone who has a bad back, feels the cold and hates sleeping on mud.
 
I get the whole comfort thing I really do- but I do think you will lose out on the banter and get together afterwards - but it's a small price to pay to allow some people to carry on laning through the colder months.

What about investing in a higher spec tent, sleeping bag, camp bed ,etc to make the whole experience less brutal
 
110woman said:
I get the whole comfort thing I really do- but I do think you will lose out on the banter and get together afterwards - but it's a small price to pay to allow some people to carry on laning through the colder months.

What about investing in a higher spec tent, sleeping bag, camp bed ,etc to make the whole experience less brutal
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: I haven't actually slept in a tent on the two trips we have done. I stayed in the pub in Derbyshire and a Bunk Barn on the Yorkshire trip.

I did once spend a night in a tent when we were showing. Second day I moved the hay/straw/feed into the tent and moved into the horse trailer :D:D:D:D Never made that mistake again, would have preferred to sleep in the temporary stables next to the horses :eek:.

It was fun in Derbyshire, folks who were camping were in the bar and we could wander out to the campfires. Dont really think we missed anything. On the Dales trip we had the BBQ outside the bunk barn too.
 
defender11069 said:
I look forward to camping after a days laning, sitting round the camp fire, having some food, couple of beers and having a laugh about the days events, not ready to go laning in a shirt and tie yet:D
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And what would be wrong with sitting round a nice fire in the hotel, having food, beer and a laugh about the days events :p

defender11069 said:
get a roof tent, just pretend its a penthouse:D
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One problem with that, it still has the word "tent" in the sentence :D:D
 
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