Monday, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:44
olcoolone,
Why should people have to pay for the use of "free" facilities??
You use their free facilities when you are in their locality and in return they use yours when they are in your area.
What goes round comes round.
In regard to
free camping, if as you say "We have seen it all too often.... caravan parks nearly empty and 10kilometres outside town 10 caravans in a
parking bay by 2pm", think about the possibilities.
Perhaps they were travelling together and only wanted an overnight stop.
Perhaps the caravan park was nearly empty because the owners charged like a wounded bull or the facilities were substandard or the vans were too big for the sites available.
Perhaps the travellers were too tight to pay for a site, or perhaps they were like me -on a pension-and would rather spend their limited travel funds on food etc in the local shops and/or sightseeing expenses like chopper flights etc. All in the local area.
My experience is that people do tend to support the local community they are using..........but not necessarily by staying at the local caravan park, but rather by having a meal and a drink at the local pub, buying fresh food at the local store, paying to see the local attractions and so on.
Disco
aka Tony
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