Like the Curate's Egg - Good in parts

Pitches close to the road (like we were on 63) can suffer an inordinate level of traffic noise late into the night and early in the morning. A nearby quarry seems to generate a lot of 4 axle tippers going each way past the site and boy are they even noisier when empty! At least the motorbikes stopped early on in the evening but I rather liked the growl of an odd Ducati heading away into the distance. A very distinctive engine note. Next time I'll try for a pitch well away from the road. I'm ambivalent about dogs. Don't love 'em and don't hate 'em. But I really don't appreciate them being 'allowed' to continue barking and thus setting off a chain reaction of barks as other dogs latch on to the canine communications super highway. At times I thought we'd set-up inside Battersea Dogs' Home. It's not their fault I know but I feel that responsible owners wouldn't let that continue. Maybe during our stay we just happened to have more irresponsible owners? I wasn't sure of the etiquette of complaining about dogs barking so didn't. You can never be sure of an owner's reaction to criticism of their beloved pooches, especially when they can hear for themselves. To be fair towards the end of the week the barking did quieten down a bit as people moved away and new people (and dogs) arrived. Maybe we were unlucky? I'd come back again but more enlightened about pitch selection. The proximity of the town and all the facilities was absolutely mustard!