[shetlandpaul]

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. 

i know banks are weird but thats bull. why would your birth cert not be valid. Thou its not treat as id as anyone can get it.

[SallyintNorth]

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  )

Don't get me started on farmers tidying up in a thread about tourists...  Grrrrr!  I'm sure they'd be better behaved if they understood just how curious cattle are and how many different things can kill them when they eat them...  I was just a little bit too slow one time to get a picture of a Charolais bullock trying his damnedest to swallow a 330ml lucozade bottle.

[Hilarysmum]

I lived in Poole, worked at the hospital.  It was a 45 minute walk along the beach to our house, it took up to 20 minutes to get out of the car park!

I am so out of the way here a tourist is a pleasure.

[jaykay]

I hadn't thought about townie litter   - I will tell our vociferous parish chairman that Ken's tin shed and heaps of ancient vehicles are far preferable   And I could point point out the habitat enhancement that his old trucks create - all sorts of things nest in them   (since our landless professional nejghbours are of the 'squirrel nutkin' view of the countryside  )

[Hermit]

Have not a clue Paul and dont really care but just told that after 32yrs of age birth Certificates dont count as  ID.

[Cavendish]

Sorry to say but I will be one of those annoying tourists travelling to north Devon this summer  , were staying on a farm just outside Bidiford with the Mrs family and dog. really looking forward being in the countryside for a week. I know I wont want to go home.

reading this thead I think I might have picked up a few tips on how not to pee off the locals. haha

[deepinthewoods]

a good tip would be not to head out on day trips during the school run/rush hour!!! just hold on a bit till we've all got to work etc! tis one of my pet hates.

[loosey]

loosey, you have the right idea.

 i do know that we have one of the uks lowest average wages and some of the highest property prices and water bills.

Unless you have a bore hole 

I love seeing all the families enjoying the beaches and spending a fortune in the gift shops in the summer holidays but Run To The Sun is a joke! I guess it will be time for Boardmasters too no doubt!

The only thing I would like tourists to change is the be a little more considerate on the eden trails. All the locals are brilliant and there's normally a great mix of dog walkers, horse riders etc but it makes me mad when I see people set up having a picnic and leaving all of their rubbish behind 

[starcana]

stop moaning Deep. We're in Cornwall too, just outside Constantine, and feel so priveliged to live in such a beautiful part of the world. Why shouldn't others share it too. And we have a holiday let barn, and our tourists are lovely and very coniderate, many of them walkers.

[TheGirlsMum]

We must be very close to you too.

It is hard doing the school run but with hubby working as a sailing instructor on the Helford for a children's charity it is good to have visitors during the summer to pay for his skills.

Don't get me started on the water bills tho....

[bazzais]

We are right on the start of the coast path - the single track is the first mile and a quarter upto our farm.

We love tourists to a certain extent, got to try and tap into their cash while they are here - but god it does get a little hectic sometimes what with walkers thinking you shouldnt be driving on the track and wont get into the hedge for a few second, meeting people who cant reverse, rubbish in the hedges, gates being left open or closed when you want them open, dogs, kids, people getting lost and driving across fields looking for a picnic spot, complaints about sheep s**t on pathways, people complaining when you have to block the path intermittently to cross it with livestock.  Most people dont realise that we actually own the path for miles and that all they have is a 'right of way' not a right to dictate or sit and have a picnic in the front garden.

Particualry get miffed by people who park in the strangest places not just in gateways but sometime literally next to the hedge on a single track road leaving only walking space past them - I mean wtf - I know it looks pretty desolate and unused by traffic with grass growing down the middle - but it is a road!!

rant over

Baz

[loosey]

Wow, I didn't realise how many of us were in Cornwall!

[deepinthewoods]

''Unless you have a bore hole ''

me too!!

''stop moaning deep''  can if i wanna lol

i think i need to work out a way to cash in on these emmetts, perhaps guided tours of the mine shafts ''if you look hard enough you can see the knockers''

i did think of selling concrete pasties but ginsters beat me too it! 

[TheGirlsMum]

 

[starcana]

yep, you can Deep, if I can  ! My moan is also about the water bills. Any idea of cost of a borehole down here, something we're seriously thinking abut. Tried to open our old well, but not enough water flow for that.