Hello

Hi

My wife and I have been using Autosleeper campers since 2000 when she joined me in retirement.  We started out with a simple Sportsman with a pop-up roof and then upgraded to a Duetto because we valued the built-in bathroom :)  As we were formerly keen cycle campers (often in the Alps or Pyrenees) having a van to sleep in seemed a bit wimpish but we've decided being soft in ones seventies is OK.

The van is primarily used as a support vehicle for less adventurous cycling (we can get our tandem inside easily and/or singles on a rack at the back) or for aeromodelling trips.  We like the Duetto because it still allows us to travel on smaller roads without the problems associated with bigger vans or caravans.

Geoff

Welcome from N.E Wales  

Hi  Geoff Sleath


Welcome to the forum


PB

Hi there,

Welcome from a dull and windy Skegness! 

Best regards,
 

Hi Geoff Sleath

 


Waves117

Dutto wrote:Hi there,

Welcome from a dull and windy Skegness! 

Best regards,
 

Isn't Skeggy always dull and windy?  For years I spent every holiday in Skeg (including Christmas) because my step-mother's family lived there and her mother had lodgers in her council house on Sandbeck Avenue all Summer. The beach donkeys spent their lunch-time break in the back garden of the house next door. My very first Summer job was working on Butlin's Amusement Park near the clock tower for 6 weeks in 1956.  I learned more in those 6 weeks than just about anywhere else

Thanks everyone else, too.

Geoff

Geoff,

I too started my "real"working life at Butlin's Amusements but in the 1958 and 59 summer holidays! 

I was mainly on The Moon Rocket, The Double Decker and the Tunnel of Love but I did spend most of one summer operating the blower that lifted the ladies skirts in The Crazy House.  However, following a pattern of luck that has followed me all of my life, the only time that a lady stood on the blower without wearing knickers I was on my lunch break!  

I also learned many things working there and I can (and do) still count my change without even looking at it!!  It has proved useful over the years, especially when some toe-rag has tried to short-change me!

It's not always dull in Skeggy and my rain-water collection system is getting very low due to almost zero precipitation over the last two months; but I do have to admit that there is a good reason why one of the biggest wind-farms in Europe is just offshore!

        

My Mum owned The Oakley which is a B&B on Drummond Road, just round the corner from Sandbeck Avenue!  Small world eh! 

Best regards,
 
Ian

Hello & welcome from S/Yorks 

Hi Geoff
Welcome to the forum from Whitby.
Boaby