[deepinthewoods]

god help me, im not sure i can stand another season. last year we decamped to wales to escape and camped in  the  middle of no where for three weeks, this year with more animals and daughter moving up to secondary school i cant take the time out. im about as isolated as i can get but still the back roads get clogged with drivers doing 20mph everywhere cos theyre satnav has confused them or they dont know how wide their hire car/ caravan is. the main roads forget it.
the prices of food all rocket, bread and milk run out and i cant get on a beach even if i wanted to.
cornwall whilst lovely is not 'all that'. im starting to regret my decision to stay when i was offered a smallholding in midwales to rent for 5 yrs, but my daughters mothers family is here and shes got into an amazing secondary school so i turned it down. so i spose i should just shut uip and put up. hey ho.
any other tourist sufferers on here?

[Bionic]

When I'm home (currently working in the US) I live 12 miles from Bournemouth seafront and on the route to the west country.  It gets horrendous. You can't move for caravans.

On the other hand when I finally get my smallholding we are hoping to have some holiday lets so then I will be pleased to see the tourists.

I want my cake and eat it too

[Hermit]

I look after the local hostel and enjoy meeting folk, I get asked by them to be shown  around my smallholding as they find it interesting, especially the children with the milking goat. One thing I have done with the kids is they get a different egg when they visit to try. One day a turkey egg, then a duck, a bantam and one little girl went home with a goose egg! I sell veg, eggs and preserves to them so I cant complain. One poor man came for some veg, he was a vegan and had just cycled across Shetland, he looked so weak  and I felt awful selling him broccolli and courgettes , he looked liked he needed a bacon butty! No mass tourists here but I do think caravans could be a little less white.

[SallyintNorth]

any other tourist sufferers on here?

Ohhhh yesssss. 

We're on Hadrian's Wall.  Tourists love to see the funny Cumbrian farmers on their quad bikes with their sheepdogs... love to take our pictures, standing in the road up which we are driving the sheep  (or trying to, but it's difficult when all these camera-happy tourists stand in the middle of the road) to get a better shot...  Tourists are very knowledgeable about gates, knowing which ones can safely be left with the extra string off ("Sheep can't open kissing wickets, y'know".  Hoh yes they can.  That's why we bothered to put the extra closer on, not just for fun.)   

Of course we should develop a 'diversification' to capitalise on this passing trade - but we leave that to our neighbours with the organic cheese & cafe.

We grit our teeth, do more of the work very early and in the evening, and really really really appreciate the peace and quiet over the winter months...

[Roxy]

We are in the Peak District in Derbyshire ....the most visited National Park.  Busy with walkers all year, but come Easter, it gets worse, and carries on until October.  We are close to Kinder Scout, and hoardes of people descend......park all over the place (to save parking fees) walk 6 abreast along the lanes, so you cannot get past.  We  tend to not go out riding, or walking the dogs until very late evening - when its peaceful!! 

[Fleecewife]

Shhh - they haven't found us yet 

[Hermit]

Roxy, my sister and I were driving through the peaks once and came across a tribe of walkers, they were oblivious to us until my sis papped her horn. They shouted at  us like we were not meant to be on the road and for making them jump   My sis works there we were not touring.

[Rosemary]

Send some of them to Carnoustie - it's lovely here, beautiful beaches, castles, glens and it's like a ghost town. Our town centre is dying on its feet. We'd welcome the income so don't knock it if you've got it.

[AengusOg]

There's an idea for your smallholder show, Rosemary, 'Best Pen of Towrists'.

[loosey]

Yep!

We're in Cornwall and preparing to bunker down for the carnage that "run to the sun" brings every year!

Luckily my shopping will be arriving this evening, the animals feed barn is full to the brim, the wine rack is looking healthy and I have no reason to leave home whatsoever!

Tourists don't tend to find us up here ... we're pretty lucky!

[doganjo]

None of you ever done the tourist bit yourselves?

[SallyintNorth]

None of you ever done the tourist bit yourselves?

Absolutely.  And BH is the worst kind!    

(I was asked whether I suffered with tourists, not whether I was or was not a hypocrite...  )

[Hermit]

When we went on holiday it was to a croft in the middle of no where, in Scotland that allowed dogs. Gairloch was our favourite place but went a few times to the outskirts ( not any more) of Aviemore. Then we bought our own and have not been on holiday since. Trouble is cause I have never been abroad or driven I have no official ID.My birth certificate is void since I am fifty as they are only viable up to 32yrs or so my bank said so I am invisisble. 

[jaykay]

We don't get too many tourists at the moment, but they are wanting to add us to the Yorkshire Dale national park. When we (farming folk) asked what the advantages were, we were told that tourists would be able to enjoy the area better  Guess what we voted  But the middle-class incomers were for it cos they think it will add value to their homes and make the old farmers tidy up a bit (I'd like to see anyone make Ken and Ray do anything  )

[deepinthewoods]

hermit.  does that mean you dont have to pay taxes then?

loosey, you have the right idea.

when you think the eden project alone gets 1.5million (i checked twice...) visitors yearly its not suprising the roads get clogged. cornwall gets over a 1/3 of its income from tourism but how much stays in the county i dont know. i do know that we have one of the uks lowest average wages and some of the highest property prices and water bills.