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[JJ]

I do not post the co-ordinates of my (private) little orchard paradise (aka Quinta Majay) on an open forum because I only want to invite people I feel I know, and who I feel would enjoy the place.

Can you imagine what I would be like if I returned back from my winter sun break in the south, and found Man U*d and Scousepool supporters parked up there?


JJ

PS. Mr Lenny HB is welcome to visit anytime...

PPS. No site fees whatsoever...

 

[Beakster]

We'll be heading down through France and Spain then Portugal is on the list of places to visit. It's our first adventure in a motorhome. We plan on wild camping and staying at sites, but certainly want to get away from the crowds. Sharing a car park with the masses is not our idea of fun! I can't say we're overly interested in visiting the Algarve, let's hope some of the more rural / northern parts of Portugal are less crowded. Will keep you posted either way!

 

[JJ]

Sharing a car park with the masses is not our idea of fun!

Don't let your views of off-site motorhoming be tainted by holiday visitors to the Algarve.

(Far more masses crammed together on official sites than off-site.)


An Algarve site where you pay...

10 kms away, a lakeside, off-site spot where you don't pay...

You choose...


JJ

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[Beakster]

We'll have the second option, thanks

 

[Minxy]

So .... Mr @JJ ... lettuce grower extraordinaire and pauper to a French princess ... how does one go about getting an invitation to your lovely little piece of heaven?

 

[BreweryDave]

I'll take the first option most of the time, the second for the odd night.
Personally, socialising and being able to walk to a bar or restaurant is important to me rather than being stuck out in the wilds with no company

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[Reallyretired]

Whats the situation at Albufeira? Can you pre book the aires?

I'm pretty sure you can't book aires anywhere.

 

[JJ]

how does one go about getting an invitation to your lovely little piece of heaven?

Now... that IS a tricky one...

Do you know who Gabriel Jesus is?

Are you familiar with the latest Metallica album?

Did you attend any of the talks Mr Wedgie Benn gave at Glastonbury?

Have you ever watched a street performer and then walked away without putting anything in his hat?

Are you a friend of either Mariella Frosthrup, Joanna Lumley or Hailey Mills?

Can you work a spade, axe, chainsaw or petrol strimmer?

Are you touring this way with a mini-digger on a trailer behind your motorhome?



JJ

 

[Minxy]

Now... that IS a tricky one...
JJ

Do you know who Gabriel Jesus is?
Wasn't he a character in one of the US TV cop shows?

Are you familiar with the latest Metallica album?
Is it magnetic?

Did you attend any of the talks Mr Wedgie Benn gave at Glastonbury?
I'm not a hippo so don't lake wadding in mud.

Have you ever watched a street performer and then walked away without putting anything in his hat?
Er ... yes a very, very, very crap one who obviously didn't put much thought into the fact that you have to be able to perform something to get money!

Are you a friend of either Mariella Frosthrup, Joanna Lumley or Hailey Mills?
No ... but I've met Bill Oddie!

Can you work a spade, axe, chainsaw or petrol strimmer?
You need to ask???? That's my idea of fun ... bring it on!!!!!

Are you touring this way with a mini-digger on a trailer behind your motorhome?
I've got 3 mini diggers but they aren't on a trailer ... they're called Romy, Lily and Tazzy and are very good at the job and work for biscuits!

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[JJ]

I am not quite sure how to put this nicely, Ms Minxy Girl...

... but a few of your answers still need a bit of work...

JJ

 

[jessthedog]

Don't let your views of off-site motorhoming be tainted by holiday visitors to the Algarve.

(Far more masses crammed together on official sites than off-site.)


An Algarve site where you pay...

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10 kms away, a lakeside, off-site spot where you don't pay...

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You choose...


JJ

Looks very peaceful
If you stay more than a couple of nights, what do people do with the toilet cassette?

 

[JJ]

Looks very peaceful
If you stay more than a couple of nights, what do people do with the toilet cassette?

I don't have a cassette... I have a proper loo... I only empty every 10 to 12 weeks.

JJ

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[jessthedog]

I don't have a cassette... I have a proper loo... I only empty every 10 to 12 weeks.

JJ

Result Not a small motorhome then

 

[JJ]

Not a small motorhome then

1987 Hymer 660S.

A thing of majestic beauty...


JJ

 

[2657]

An Algarve site where you pay...

Another Algarve site where you pay:

10 kms away, a lakeside, off-site spot where you don't pay..

I have stayed on that exact spot also, for one night, and very nice it is too

Another place where you don't pay

Nice??

And another place where you don't pay

This was very nice for one night but it looked like some were abusing the locality by staying put.

There is a difference

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[laurieash]

Don't let your views of off-site motorhoming be tainted by holiday visitors to the Algarve.

(Far more masses crammed together on official sites than off-site.)


An Algarve site where you pay...

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10 kms away, a lakeside, off-site spot where you don't pay...

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You choose...


JJ

My favourite spot also.but I also use the aire in silves.
Sat on a different Barragem now fishing.

 

[Zepp]

How busy is it on the Algarve now .

Have all the French left yet are all the aires still at bursting point .

 

[laurieash]

Still busy, it will ease next month.

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[irnbru]

I really dont see the point of parking on some rough piece of ground to save a few bob. I have no problem with people using aires en route but there
are lots of tight fisted motorhomers out there (surrogate Itinerants) giving us all a bad name when for a few euros you can stay on an ACSI site and enjoy it properly.
How can this attitude help the local communities ?
No wonder the authorities are cracking down on it.
Phil

How dare you.. What you choose as your type of motorhoming is up to you . If I or anyone else wants to save money then that's up to us and not you. Tight fisted or living within means. Next it will be oh if you can't afford site fees then don't motorhome.

I hope I'm never parked up next to you one day.

 

[irnbru]

Looks very peaceful
If you stay more than a couple of nights, what do people do with the toilet cassette?

Borrow your avatars spade

 

[jessthedog]

Borrow your avatars spade

That's what I was alluding to

Unlike JJ, most of the 'Free loaders' 'Wild Campers' Travellers! Call them what you will.
Won't have a nice big pooh tank in their vans. So if they are not moving on after a few days, they will need to dispose of their excrement in the local area.

So people will be digging pooh holes everywhere. Which is not great

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[nicholsong]

Looks very peaceful
If you stay more than a couple of nights, what do people do with the toilet cassette?

Swap it with the spare one. We have 2, friends have 3 cassettes.

 

[Lenny HB]

I do not post the co-ordinates of my (private) little orchard paradise (aka Quinta Majay) on an open forum because I only want to invite people I feel I know, and who I feel would enjoy the place.

Can you imagine what I would be like if I returned back from my winter sun break in the south, and found Man U*d and Scousepool supporters parked up there?


JJ

PS. Mr Lenny HB is welcome to visit anytime...

PPS. No site fees whatsoever...

You are a star JJ, a big thank you.

Hope to be heading down your way April/May time, no plans yet.

 

[Jim]

That's what I was alluding to

Unlike JJ, most of the 'Free loaders' 'Wild Campers' Travellers! Call them what you will.
Won't have a nice big pooh tank in their vans. So if they are not moving on after a few days, they will need to dispose of their excrement in the local area.

So people will be digging pooh holes everywhere. Which is not great

Just because there are no facilities that does not mean that Wild Campers just dump stuff indiscriminately, most are passionate about the environment they are in as they want to stay there. Sometimes holes are dug, but rarely in my experience, but even then, dug properly and with a bit of thought, there is no harm in doing so. Plenty of wild campers have at least 1 other cassette, I've met loads who have three. And if they are away in a nice place with no facilities they are experts at getting the longest possible time away before they need to dump their tanks. The same with water supply, they are frugal and won't waste a drop, because when they are out that means a move has to happen. Because we've always wild camped with a family it was always water or fresh bread that did for us first, so every three days or so when we ran out we'd have to find somewhere to dump, fill up and shop.

I'm sure plenty when they passed my crew looked down their noses and assumed we were just dumping in the sea, or lake or long grass... On the contrary, like many other wild campers you very often leave a place cleaner than you found it.

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[laurieash]

We have two cassettes.
Also the other day when it rained just put my awning out a little to collect the rain water, I had a full tank in less than one hour.
Lovely and soft water for washing in and no additives.

 

[jessthedog]

Just because there are no facilities that does not mean that Wild Campers just dump stuff indiscriminately, most are passionate about the environment they are in as they want to stay there. Sometimes holes are dug, but rarely in my experience, but even then, dug properly and with a bit of thought, there is no harm in doing so. Plenty of wild campers have at least 1 other cassette, I've met loads who have three. And if they are away in a nice place with no facilities they are experts at getting the longest possible time away before they need to dump their tanks. The same with water supply, they are frugal and won't waste a drop, because when they are out that means a move has to happen. Because we've always wild camped with a family it was always water or fresh bread that did for us first, so every three days or so when we ran out we'd have to find somewhere to dump, fill up and shop.

I'm sure plenty when they passed my crew looked down their noses and assumed we were just dumping in the sea, or lake or long grass... On the contrary, like many other wild campers you very often leave a place cleaner than you found it.

The problem is, like most things in life they will be ruined by human beings. You say most are passionate.
Most people pay their taxes, pick up litter, don't fly tip, pick up after their dogs. You know where I'm going
There are others who don't play by the rules, who eventually ruin it for those that do. That's why we don't have aire's in this country. if we did, people would rip the arse out of it.

Everywhere you go in this country there are barriers, or earth mounds that the tax payer has paid to stop those who think they have a right to park and abuse the land.

If you are a full timer, what do you do with your rubbish, recycle it yourself? do you pay for the local police, fire service, all the other services that the council tax payers are paying for.

It's fantastic to be free to go where you want or park where you want and have a wonderful life on the road. But the bottom line. Someone else is paying for it.

 

[Jim]

If you are a full timer, what do you do with your rubbish, recycle it yourself? do you pay for the local police, fire service, all the other services that the council tax payers are paying for.

It's fantastic to be free to go where you want or park where you want and have a wonderful life on the road. But the bottom line. Someone else is paying for it.

What does that have to do with wildcamping?

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[JJ]

It's fantastic to be free to go where you want or park where you want and have a wonderful life on the road. But the bottom line. Someone else is paying for it.

Please, please don't worry (Mr, Mrs, Ms) jessthedog...

...with all the taxes I have paid (and am paying) and all the cash investments I have made and all the money I spend in Portugal, I don't think they mind me using the bins every now and again.

JJ

 

[jessthedog]

What does that have to do with wildcamping?

So what is wild camping?

 

[jessthedog]

Please, please don't worry (Mr, Mrs, Ms) jessthedog...

...with all the taxes I have paid (and am paying) and all the cash investments I have made and all the money I spend in Portugal, I don't think they mind me using the bins every now and again.

JJ

Does gender matter?
So, we all wild camp, we dont use rhe facilities that have been set aside for motorhomers, what would happen?
I envy what you do and good luck to you, but their is a price to pay. And not everyone is the same as you.

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