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- Wed Jul 03, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: Admin & Club Matters
- Topic: Farewell Harry Ashcroft
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9860
Re: Farewell Harry Ashcroft
Very sad indeed. We too first met Harry at Silverdale, 2007 it was for us when we were investigating Bongos, had visited a few dealers and wanted to see the 'human' side of the van. We were in a regular car at that point but Harry welcomed us as day-visitors and directed us to various vans with all ...
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 7:37 pm
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: Happy 21st, Bongy!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3024
Happy 21st, Bongy!
Thanks to the Russian Bongo website I’m able to confirm that today is our Bongo’s 21st Birthday. As Bongy has taken us far & wide and been everything we ever hoped for and far more, it would be rude not to mark the occasion. And on Thursday, as a special treat we’ll bring him to meet a lot of th...
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: Techie Stuff
- Topic: Inner Sill Welding - Bongo Spares?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1524
Re: Inner Sill Welding - Bongo Spares?
Bongo Spares will do the job right for you but it's not a 'while-u-wait' service, you'll have to leave it with them for several days and get a train to/from Sowerby Bridge. But they will do a proper job for you.
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:36 pm
- Forum: Fancy Meeting up & Bongo Trips
- Topic: Off to Scotland
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22598
Re: Off to Scotland
Thanks all for your thoughts on campsite availability. Will chance it, as you suggest, in less popular areas, and once I know when I will be ready to go over to Skye, make enquiries then. Sounds good. If it looks (last minute) like we are not going to make the bash then I will PM you some Isle of S...
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 2:43 pm
- Forum: Fancy Meeting up & Bongo Trips
- Topic: Off to Scotland
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22598
Re: Off to Scotland
One slight correction to the above, the wild-camping magnet at Calgary Bay on the isle of Mull was absolutely rammed, and mostly with people who looked like they'd been there a good while. So we sought out our own little haven elsewhere and had a lovely night - and went back to exactly the same spot...
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 2:34 pm
- Forum: Fancy Meeting up & Bongo Trips
- Topic: Off to Scotland
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22598
Re: Off to Scotland
The main concern that I am now feeling is, I had planned to travel without pre-booking, but am now wondering if I will experience problems finding just one space in campsites if I just turn up. Time will tell. I do not want to have to be in a certain place on a certain day. That's not how I travel....
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 6:23 am
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: From one B-word to another
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5089
Re: From one B-word to another
Oh yeah, how could I forget.... Yes brilliant! These are kbg's favourite (top 3) sources of dry cured bacon when out and about: 1. Roberts TJ and Sons, on Bala high street. 2. Setchfield RP, on East Keswick high street, 3 miles from Wetherby off A1(M). 3. Mettricks, on Glossop high street in the Da...
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:02 pm
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: From one B-word to another
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5089
Re: From one B-word to another
Oh yeah, how could I forget....
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:44 pm
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: From one B-word to another
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5089
Re: From one B-word to another
Normal B-words (on a family-friendly forum) would be things like barbecue, bockwürst, bratwürst and burgers. Maybe Bordeaux, Burgundy or Beaujolais if you're into a spot of red and maybe Barcelona, Berlin or Blackburn if you're talking tours. I think the best word I coined was Bongolianism (do a for...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:21 am
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: Time to say goodbye..... or NOT!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8635
Re: Time to say goodbye..... or NOT!
Keep it.
We're now into our twelfth year and wouldn't be without it, it's part of the family.
We're now into our twelfth year and wouldn't be without it, it's part of the family.
- Mon Jun 03, 2019 3:56 pm
- Forum: Fancy Meeting up & Bongo Trips
- Topic: Team Muz Wales tour 2010
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13352
Re: Team Muz Wales tour 2010
You may wonder why, from Cae Du in Gwynedd on our last night, we ventured south into Powys and then Dyfed to Borth. This was in search of the lost forest, some Scottish geezer on the recent "Coast" series on the BBC was waxing lyrical about how Cardigan Bay was once a fertile land and to ...
- Fri May 17, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: Techie Stuff
- Topic: Really heavy "clunk"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2171
Re: Really heavy "clunk"
Could be the UJs in the rear prop.
- Mon May 13, 2019 7:49 am
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: Bongo-friendly parking, Edinburgh
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3740
Re: Bongo-friendly parking, Edinburgh
Well if anyone is in a similar predicament I can recommend parking at the station in Wallyford (just to the east of the city bypass, no height barrier and good camera coverage) and get a train to Edinburgh Waverley, free parking and £4.00 return on the train, and it's only 10 minutes each way. It's ...
- Tue May 07, 2019 2:25 pm
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: Bongo-friendly parking, Edinburgh
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3740
Re: Bongo-friendly parking, Edinburgh
Thanks for the replies - looks like a train from a nearby local station is the way to go, they don't appear to have height barriers on them, or the ones I've checked out on Goggle Maps don't appear to.
- Mon May 06, 2019 1:39 pm
- Forum: Bongo Chat
- Topic: Bongo-friendly parking, Edinburgh
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3740
Bongo-friendly parking, Edinburgh
Does anyone know any Bongo-friendly carparks in central Edinburgh, they mostly seem to be less than 2.1m and even the park & ride is 1.9m which is no use at all. We'd need about 4 or 5 hours. There's a Sainsbury's opposite the Straiton park & ride (just off the A701 south of the city bypass)...