A New Decade Beckons

I reckon it’ll be known as the roaring 20’s by the time it’s over. We’ll look back at a time of division to a time of proud independence👍🏻

With the move to smaller, lightweight alternative fueled tow cars, touring caravans will also need to be much smaller and lighter. Gone will be the large twin wheeler with fixed beds and bathrooms larger than those at home. Pitches will come with individual toilet/washrooms and many will have permanently pitched awings. All of this will come at a cost, pitch + 2 around £100-£150 per night. Time to pack up or buy a tent!!

Perhaps one or other of the clubs will buy the other out so we end up with a super club.  Fuel prices will probably sky rocket.  

Outfits will get smaller. But more ingenious to cope. Sites will become mere park ups as land is required for more housing. All hardstandings.

As this generation continues to shuffle off this mortal coil, the next generation will have little in the way of work pensions and work longer, so they will be more than my age now before they can afford to buy an outfit, will have less opportunity to use it, unless it’s a pooled family affair so that GK’s get holiday childcare.

Ergo......the two main Clubs will merge to keep going, and make the most of dwindling Site and CL/CS resources. Both Club’s will lose all their Scottish Sites, but a new Club will emerge that will be free to all resident Scots, and charge the English a lot more to visit. The Clinging On Camping Utopia Project (COCUP) will have it’s HQ further North ‘cos it’s a cheaper lifestyle! 😁🤣

Global warming will see foreign vans flocking to the uk for cooler weather, "over there" will be too hot and Carter bar will become an international border for those escaping the sun. 

Ah.......Carter Bar😁

Talking of ingenious outfit modifications, possibly dual usage? Not only will you be able to connect to a bollard along the Ouse and the Severn, but overnight berths will be an option for those outfits that can ride out the floods? Mind you, it’s going to require some better build in terms of damp proofing to work fully. So RIP Elddiss, Swift, Lunar et al....🤣

So it maybe goodbye caravan and welcome to cruising the cut for me

Perhaps by the end of 2029 we might be able to post a photo on CT without all the resizing, and the famous white peg might be replaced with a virtual peg (park where you like) 

Cost of using Club sites will continue to rise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50947097

Perhaps at last we will see the end of BST.

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It’ll be English Summer time. English like to cling on to their past idiosyncrasies. 

We are hoping to emigrate.........if Scotland will have us!😁

York has got its New Year Resolution in early! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/31/york-to-ban-private-cars-from-city-centre-within-three-years

As a frequent visitor, not a bad idea. It has good transport links, and the City centre is quite tiny really compared with other places. We never take our car into City Centre now.