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Friday, May 20, 2005
Camping at Braemar
Another weekend approaches and as all my mates are off to Braemar for a spot of camping and a spot of hiking in the Cairngorms, I'm stuck at home decorating. I keep telling myself that it'll be worth it when I'm finished which of course is a big lie. I'd rather be up in the hills under a flimsy piece of polyester than up a ladder with a flimsy piece of wallpaper.

There are not many campsites around Braemar though, one official one in town, and apart from that it's wild camping. That suits everyone of course, except us with our huge family tent and requirement for somewhere to wash the baby. Perhaps it's time the National Trust for Scotland stick a campsite up in the forest at Linn of Dee. After all, they are charging for parking there now so they should put the money to good use, clear some trees and get a great little campsite going. No caravans though of course, keep it to tents and small camper vans.

Perhaps by sunday I'll be finished the wallpapering and can get up a hill. Perhaps not.
Ah, but it'll all be worth it when it's finished.


Posted by bigcrags @ 3:43 PM
Comments:
Hi,
We tried to camp at the Caravan club site on Friday 24th August. We arrived at 20:50 to find the reception closed which was fair enough. There was a notice on the door telling you to camp and then pay in the morning if the reception was closed. We were just trying to work out if we could take our car through the barrier or if we needed to park outside and carry our tent through when the Warden came out. He asked if we had a pass for the barrier and we said no, he replied rudely "you won't get in then not at this time of night and to park next to the gas compound" which we were about to do. He then asked what the time was and we said it was 9 o'clock he then said "Come on be reasonable". We didn't mind parking our car outside and taking our kit through on foot but to get such a rude and unfriendly reception was uncalled for. The Caravan Club should really do some mystery customer checks, and ask themselves if they want people like this as their wardens.
Breamar is lovely and we got a really good reception every where else.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:24 PM
 
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