pcatterall
Well-Known Member
First season back at Conwy and first trip back down there.
Took my van as I had my tender in the back. There are parking restrictions at the Degenwy beach head so I unloaded on to the beach and nipped into the local car park ( paid for 3 hours) dashed back to my unguarded gear and took the stuff accross to the boat. Some problems on the boat but went back within the 3 hours to move the van to long term parking.
Found a yellow plastic thingy on my windscreen ( my first parking ticket) Small print on parking sign says no commercial vehicles or campers.
My SWB Transit van is converted to a multi purpose vehicle so that it may be used as a camper, a bus or with rear seats removed as transport for my disabled mother and her scooter.
It was in the latter mode that I was driving to get my tender in.
My vans footprint is no bigger than a large saloon car and I feel victimised, there is no parking for the vehicle that I have to drive anyway near the beach head, I have to leave my gear unattended while I walk 10 minutes to where I can park.
The council are happy to take my mooring fee.
This seems to be part of the councils anti camper campaign as it is almost impossible to park a camper in any of the local car parks. I can understand issues involving great big moterhomes and campers overnighting on car parks but this seems really petty.
As a footnote I had to park my van in a residential street and returned to find eggs thrown on the screen.
End of rant!!
Took my van as I had my tender in the back. There are parking restrictions at the Degenwy beach head so I unloaded on to the beach and nipped into the local car park ( paid for 3 hours) dashed back to my unguarded gear and took the stuff accross to the boat. Some problems on the boat but went back within the 3 hours to move the van to long term parking.
Found a yellow plastic thingy on my windscreen ( my first parking ticket) Small print on parking sign says no commercial vehicles or campers.
My SWB Transit van is converted to a multi purpose vehicle so that it may be used as a camper, a bus or with rear seats removed as transport for my disabled mother and her scooter.
It was in the latter mode that I was driving to get my tender in.
My vans footprint is no bigger than a large saloon car and I feel victimised, there is no parking for the vehicle that I have to drive anyway near the beach head, I have to leave my gear unattended while I walk 10 minutes to where I can park.
The council are happy to take my mooring fee.
This seems to be part of the councils anti camper campaign as it is almost impossible to park a camper in any of the local car parks. I can understand issues involving great big moterhomes and campers overnighting on car parks but this seems really petty.
As a footnote I had to park my van in a residential street and returned to find eggs thrown on the screen.
End of rant!!
