Whats the funniest thing

[Jamesh]

No one told him about the benefits of ceramic coatings ?
I am amazed at the number of people who wash and polish their vans on pitch, don’t they realise that the campsites will have their water metered!

That's why they do it!!

 

[Northernraider]

As a relatively new subscriber to this forum I find the 'I never use campsites' ,'I just wild camp', 'I don't watch television' mantra regularly trotted out amusing. It's almost a form of inverse snobbery where wild camping, not paying for anything is something that those who do pay for Campsite facitilities should aspire too! It's not dissimilar to the marina vs free anchorage brigade on the YBW forum. I do both but never sleep a wink when on the hook at anchor and I always drop two!! Should my van arrive I will probably continue in the same manner!
Just an observation!

Its definitely not something to aspire to..

Honest.

The main reason i avoid campsites is to avoid many of the people who use them so i really don't want to find them parked up next to me wildcamping.


Nothing to do with snobbery ... everything to do with experience. Something it apears you've yet to gain.


Good luck

 

[Tombola]

Its definitely not something to aspire to..

Honest.

The main reason i avoid campsites is to avoid many of the people who use them so i really don't want to find them parked up next to me wildcamping.


Nothing to do with snobbery ... everything to do with experience. Something it apears you've yet to gain.


Good luck

my thoughts exactly..and when I do go to sites, I never plug in anyway

 

[tc1000ok]

Whats the funnies thing that you have seen other motorhome owners doing when setting up for their stay or during their stay next to you on a campsite.
When we arrive my plan is to set up asap.
Level it. Leccy cable in, switch on, awning out, chairs out ,bbq on, beer out.
Best ones ive seen is a guy putting a substantial wind break up and truing every pole with a spirit level , took him chuffin ages.
Then the couple with a cadac. Guy wearing an apron , cooked the sausage. Then proceded to clean the cadac, pack it all away , get changed then got stuck into the sausage. His wife sat there all the time sippin gin.

I once saw a MH with posh new windbreaks around their awning. These were the ones that had the support bars that pegged into the ground for support. They had the metal support arms on the INSIDE and were perched on their chairs with their backs right against the MH as the support bars had taken the rest of available space and they had basically penned themselves in.

 

[Cat53]

It’s always fun to people watch, wherever you are. But I have to say, wherever we are, watching people pitching tents or setting up caravans makes me eternally grateful that I have a motorhome. Pull up, switch gas, make a cuppa. Easy Peasy. And offer hot drinks to anyone pitching a tent in the rain.

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[Shrimp]

We love people watching.
It’s usually fascinating watching Caravans being set-up,
There is a couple who come to the CS we use quite often, caravan sited the the rest of the day/evening setting everything else up-full awning, shade for the dogs, big pen for the dogs, wind breaks all round. He does all the work she strolls around like Lady Muck with a ciggie and a drink!

 

[Slowshifter]

It appears that I need to gain experience and get a battery set up to really enjoy my camping , oh and some luck.

I’m with you dash300, we need to aspire to more.

 

[Maddaveleeds]

It was our First outting in our New to us Van this week just to get to know how and what everything does. Well we got set up plugged in and awning out, it was Boiling in the van but it was hot outside, we opened the windows and sun roof it was still Hot Hot Hot, my wife took a cold shower and when she got out she said Dave i can feel hot air on my feet, the heating was on 60 degrees

 

[reckless]

Not going to add to the wildcamp vs site debate but isn't it great we're all different? Life would be so boring otherwise
Do your own thing and be happy

 

[Jo662]

It was our First outting in our New to us Van this week just to get to know how and what everything does. Well we got set up plugged in and awning out, it was Boiling in the van but it was hot outside, we opened the windows and sun roof it was still Hot Hot Hot, my wife took a cold shower and when she got out she said Dave i can feel hot air on my feet, the heating was on 60 degrees

Everyday’s a school day with a motorhome,but it’s fun learning!

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[A S R]

Funniest thing I ever did was arrive at Val d’Isere campsite ( on my motorbike with the missus ) to discover I’d left the tent pegs on my workbench at home after cleaning them!
Her majesty wasn’t very amused but we got by using screwdrivers, Allen keys etc out of my bikes toolkit! The next morning the only thing I could find in the local shop to use were a set of stainless steel BBQ skewers! I still have them.
The second funniest thing was at the same campsite ( strangely ) where me and my mate watched a family of 3 spend about 45 mins trying to get a pop up tent folded up and back in its bag. We gave them a round of applause when they managed it. They then had a second one to do!

 

[dazandandrea]

Not going to add to the wildcamp vs site debate but isn't it great we're all different? Life would be so boring otherwise
Do your own thing and be happy

I started this thread with no intenion of it being wild vs site mass debate.
I hope they can start their own.

 

[scotzsue]

We love people watching on site and off.
there was a big sporting event coming up when we were on a french pitch. Caravan next to us had an all singing and dancing satellite set up, was trying to get a decent signal. We parked up I put the kettle on and John got our little suitcase dish out. Camper was so scathing 'if I can't get a signal with my super set up, you have no chance with yours' a few minutes later we were up and running. He had been so nasty we shut the window on his side so he couldn't hear, had he been different he would have been invited in for a drink and to watch. He gave up in the end.
P. S. feel a bit guilty now, he might have been having a bad day.

 

[Detnor]

When Eurodisney first opened, we took a trip over to try out the new site, hardstanding, ehu, water, picnic table etc to the pitch something totally new to us. As we sat, another van arrived and we watched as the owner hauled a satellite dish on a tripod onto the roof. This was 1992, and things were very different. He was up there for 3 hours and he never got it working. All we could wonder was why....

 

[DJA]

Whilst on a Campsite in Spain a band new big expensive UK motorhome pulled onto a pitch close by. After they had sorted out the trailer and the car on it they got out the chairs and took a break during which when chatting to their neighbours they indicated the problems they had had before they left and during the journey from the UK. They had to return to the dealer to sort out some issues with the van and pick up the Awning that had not been available when they collected the Van. During the journey down they had concerns at the fuel consumption only to discover there was a hole in the Fuel Tank. So with a number of issues and delays they were delighted to have at last arrived and could start their holiday.

Eventually they started to put up the awning and after at least an hour were standing looking at it with very puzzled looks on their faces. A number of campers joined them offering to help them put up their awning for the first time. Eventually there were many puzzled faces until someone had an inspirational moment and realised the awning had 2 left ends. I am sure they laugh about it now but at the time the resultant phone call to the dealer was far from humorous I am sure.

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[Stuart]

Like A S R above we were on a beach somewhere in France, can't remember where, watching a Frenchman trying to fold up one of those pop up fishing shelter things they bring to the beach. He had quite an audience and after 10 minutes or so gave up and threw the whe lot into a litter bin in embarrassment. Along strolled a young man who'd watched it all, dextrously folded it in a flash, popped it in the bag and strolled away with it to a round of applause.

 

[nicholsong]

I think you have made my case. The issue is the way those who flaunt their look where we camp as somehow superior to those who feel a campsite is more to their needs. Your condescending Greek Island mooring advice is equaly revealing!

My reply is contained in my previous reply to your equating wildcamping with not paying.

"You are connecting 'wildcamping' with not 'paying for anything'. We have just spent 6 nights in the Tatra mountains on a parking area with beautiful views, where we have been 20 times before. There is only a parking attendant in July/Aug, so for 4 night we did not pay and paid €8 per night for 2 nights, just for parking. There is no campsite within 20kms and is in the valley with no views. We do not need campsite facilities as we are self-sufficient."

 

[cruiser]

We watched a very large caravan pull up 2 pitches away from us. They spent 3 hours on putting it all together. A huge awning. Wich took up most of the he next pitch. Then out came a big pile of windbreaks which took up all the next pitch right up to mine. He then parked his range rover on my pitch. When I complained, he said I was not using it. About 30mins later a very large man came over to him and told him to take it all down .his face was a picture.

 

[bobnick]

Not read the 48 posts before this but what i found hilariously funny was the price offered for my Imala by Don Amott in part ex

 

[terryr]

Just come back from France. We were all pitched up and the about 6.30pm two large nearly new french vans appeared. The first parked on the far side of the pitch nose first, the the second van squeezed in along side him in reverse so the door opened up towards each other. They had to break branches off the trees between us so they didn't scratch the van. Silly bit was there were plenty of other empty pitches and they didn't connect onto the electric so all they paid for was one basic pitch. The following morning they unloaded so very expensive electric bikes so they weren't short of a bob or two.

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[Northernraider]

Just come back from France. We were all pitched up and the about 6.30pm two large nearly new french vans appeared. The first parked on the far side of the pitch nose first, the the second van squeezed in along side him in reverse so the door opened up towards each other. They had to break branches off the trees between us so they didn't scratch the van. Silly bit was there were plenty of other empty pitches and they didn't connect onto the electric so all they paid for was one basic pitch. The following morning they unloaded so very expensive electric bikes so they weren't short of a bob or two.

After buying the bikes maybe they were.

 

[RobbyMClark]

I bet it was his wife’s toothbrush

no he uses that to clean the cassette! !!

As a relatively new subscriber to this forum I find the 'I never use campsites' ,'I just wild camp', 'I don't watch television' mantra regularly trotted out amusing. It's almost a form of inverse snobbery where wild camping, not paying for anything is something that those who do pay for Campsite facitilities should aspire too! It's not dissimilar to the marina vs free anchorage brigade on the YBW forum. I do both but never sleep a wink when on the hook at anchor and I always drop two!! Should my van arrive I will probably continue in the same manner!
Just an observation!

Just put the handbrake on!!!

Its amazing what people put in caravans, whose safe payload is practically zilch. I have seen fridge/freezers, washing machines and large cookers coming out into an awning. The caravans must have been chocker and ludicrouswely overweight.

Year before last we where on a site in Dorset and there was a seasonally pitch caravan, when the owner turned up with 2 cars they unloaded a dining room table and 4 chairs for inside the awning, the car was packed like Mary Poppins carpet bag!!!

 

[Dai37]

Parked up in Tenby, lovely late evening everybody out having a few bevvies, when a huge brand new Kon Tiki turned up.
Needed ramps, so wife not gesticulating wildly enough, failed to stop partner overshooting and comprehensively jamming the ramp behind the front wheel and chassis member.
This van would not move, wheels skidding it was well and truly stuck. Red faced and furious ,chap gets out of the cab and starts emptying every locker on the van. Campers were now starting to drift over, some in questionable states of inebriation.
Appears the van was borrowed from a family member and had been on a long journey from up North. Various solutions were put forth not helped by the lady, now chatting to a good looking camper who had lost interest in the problem, and philosophising on the joys of motorhome ownership.
We eventually freed it by sawing the ramp in pieces ,the saw supplied by another camper (who takes a saw camping?) Upshot was after a lot of shouting and arguing the van was gone by the morning.
Abiding memory of the lady drinking and simpering while chap furiously throwing chairs out of the lockers whilst looking for his jack ,still makes me smile.

 

[Northernraider]

Parked up in Tenby, lovely late evening everybody out having a few bevvies, when a huge brand new Kon Tiki turned up.
Needed ramps, so wife not gesticulating wildly enough, failed to stop partner overshooting and comprehensively jamming the ramp behind the front wheel and chassis member.
This van would not move, wheels skidding it was well and truly stuck. Red faced and furious ,chap gets out of the cab and starts emptying every locker on the van. Campers were now starting to drift over, some in questionable states of inebriation.
Appears the van was borrowed from a family member and had been on a long journey from up North. Various solutions were put forth not helped by the lady, now chatting to a good looking camper who had lost interest in the problem, and philosophising on the joys of motorhome ownership.
We eventually freed it by sawing the ramp in pieces ,the saw supplied by another camper (who takes a saw camping?) Upshot was after a lot of shouting and arguing the van was gone by the morning.
Abiding memory of the lady drinking and simpering while chap furiously throwing chairs out of the lockers whilst looking for his jack ,still makes me smile.

I carry 2 saws , 2 axes , a jigsaw, cordless drill, corded drill, plus full aray of mechanical tools, a pair of axle stands, and 2 bottle jack's. Means theres very little i cant fix on the road

Id have had the ramp out of the guys van in 5 minutes without damaging it

 

[Dai37]

I carry 2 saws , 2 axes , a jigsaw, cordless drill, corded drill, plus full aray of mechanical tools, a pair of axle stands, and 2 bottle jack's. Means theres very little i cant fix on the road

Id have had the ramp out of the guys van in 5 minutes without damaging it

Impressed, I do have a Philips screwdriver and an adjustable spanner. However we are fairly new to this game so a mobile workshop has yet to develop.

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[Dai37]

Impressed, I do have a Philips screwdriver and an adjustable spanner. However we are fairly new to this game so a mobile workshop has yet to develop.

But you would have spoiled his missus fun.

 

[Northernraider]

Impressed, I do have a Philips screwdriver and an adjustable spanner. However we are fairly new to this game so a mobile workshop has yet to develop.

I live in mine fulltime so its required

 

[Wildbill]

The boy's wer youn we set off on our first caming holiday to belgum and france.
arived at the camp site at iper.
unpacked the car no tent it was sunday and no shops open any way we go find a a hotel to stay in.
a verry hevy case verry large i carry it all the way to the top floore.
knakerd i asks the wife what the hell is in that case it's the camping stuff cooker tent and two sleaping bags whare was it on the car roof puzzeld look i forgot i had put that stuff in a case
bill

 

[Euromobil]

We were on a campsite near calais, eating our evening meal which we were very pleased having cooked on our modest facilities.
A very large motorhome parked opposite set up expensive tables and chairs laid up the table cloth and cutlery.
Mrs large motorhome then went inside whilst Mr large motorhome had a beer.
Ten minutes later out she came carrying

Two pot noodles

 

[robmilton]

When i owned a narrowboat there seemed to be two types of people, polishers and real boaters, if you made contact with a polishers boat god help you, maybe its the same with MH,s, ours isnt mint but very tidy so if it gets scratched by a hedge or something….so what !
on the funnies side i watched a guy yesterday strip down his toilet cassette take out various brushes to clean the inside, re-assemble it, wash it and dry it ! All in yellow marigolds, bet he keeps his arse in smashin nick.

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