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Post by pippin on Jan 27, 2019 15:53:04 GMT
No wonder I avoid English registered vans ! Phew - that's all right then - ours is registered in Wales
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Post by nicholsong on Jan 27, 2019 17:31:37 GMT
Don't forget that there are many, many people who have spent every cent they have on just buying their dream motorhome (even if maybe just an old banger) and what with running costs they really are struggling financially. £25 a night just for a parking space, with water and drainage they don't need at that particular time, is just beyond them. Which is why French Aires, etc., are so good - you're not being ripped off if you do need to pay a modest amount and many are free. If there were more "motorhome-only parkings" for between £5-£10 a night, then all this scabby encampment-style of motorhome "gatherings" wouldn't happen. And if it did, it would be easy for the authorities to move them off. It's the sudden (10-15 years!) boom in motorhome sales that's caught everyone by surprise. Dont get me wrong, I hate campsites and hate spending money parking the van but if I Was going to stop somewhere on a Spanish costa for a long period of time I would either find an Aire like the one Alan uses for less than a tenner or do a deal on a quiet site or private aire maybe away a bit from the coast for a couple of hundred Euros a month or summat and make use of the facilities. FFS! If your not moving the van your not using diesel so your saving a few quid there by not moving about all the time. When we spend months on end in France I spend feck all on camping / parking as its Aires are superb and wilding is great in the mountains but I Dont wanna share my wilding spots if possible or maybe a few vans so will find out of the way places. None of this costs anything but then ill go and spent thirty quid on cheese and go down the pub instead. Im in rant mode at the moment if you hadnt noticed. I have gout, im pissed off and the tablets make me a right grouchy Bastud! Grrr! Feck off world! Twats. I think Bazza it is time to start a new forum - for grumpy bastards - there seem to be enough around.
You are just the man to do it - because you are grumpy about IT, grumpy about gout and just generally grumpy.
Now grump off and just do it.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jan 27, 2019 17:38:05 GMT
Bah! Feck off!
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Post by Salomon on Jan 27, 2019 19:18:40 GMT
No wonder I avoid English registered vans ! Phew - that's all right then - ours is registered in Wales And how would I know the difference ? Twat.
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Post by nicholsong on Jan 27, 2019 20:28:35 GMT
Might be a good first post for the new forum
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Post by cookie on Jan 28, 2019 5:16:57 GMT
[/quote]What has the cost of your camping car got to do with where you want to park ?? is there some kind of minimum value of bus that applies to parking ? Jeez. No wonder I avoid English registered vans ![/quote] It's not the fact he's a freeloading tosser like me.albeit a posher one than me. Its the fact that I have to do it if I want to continue this way of life and I certainly wouldn't stay in a car park like him for 2 months or more eventually buggering it up for everyone like me who just wants to visit for a couple or 3 days.everyone likes a bite of the cherry. There's a bit of difference between a 7.5mtr camper being unobtrusive in a corner than a massive mega bus stuck in everyone's face. Pissed me off as well cos we was in the shadow of the bloody great ugly thing. More chance of a tan at home.
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Post by cookie on Jan 28, 2019 5:22:17 GMT
And....when the other load of vans wanted to leave I bet it was no fun for them waiting for an hour for him to empty madams poop at the manhole.
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Post by Salomon on Jan 28, 2019 9:06:56 GMT
As I suspected. If you are not destitute you are not worthy.
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Post by Dead Monger on Jan 28, 2019 9:21:11 GMT
As I suspected. If you are not destitute you are not worthy. What's being a destitute and selling sex got to do with it ... FFS they are only trying to make a bit of cash
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Post by ray on Jan 28, 2019 11:10:43 GMT
One thing I noticed and we did most of the time, as we trundled along busily going no where Sandra's job was keep an eye open for vans parked up, they would be local vans who knew parking spots for the night, and not on Aires, Sostas, or Gypo sites we would find a way down to them often difficult as Johnny foreigner ha a habit of putting a railway line between you and the access bridges are meant for cars, to find an underpass tall enough to take the van is sometimes a challenge..
This method always was a winner as the sites were in the best spots next to the sea, often had a man hole to empty the shit down, and often had water, ok not potable but we never drank any local water potable or not, except for a mountain spring in the mountains of Albania, a few locals from the nearby village were filling containers for drinking water, we emptied the water out of our tank and filled up with this sweet water and every other container, we always saved a lot of 5ltr empty water bottles.. This is the best water I have ever drank before or after anywhere in the world and will always stick In my mind and the one memory that still holds..
Parking up among vans for a couple of days we met some great folk, neither of us could speak each others language but could happily drink each others booze an we always got by waving our hands about, also I often sat outside the van playing my guitar when one of the other campers would turn up with his guitar and universal language of music came into play, it's a language any musician speaks.
Sitting in an aire or sosta cheek to jowl with other snowbirds is shite except for one place next to a barragem in Portugal, "Pego De Altar" a long term snowbird stop with loads of English vans coming and going, the amount of folk we knew there was amazing, it was party time from the moment you arrived, to hear there is so and so coming tomorrow lets have a party to welcome them..
I could go on about not parking up with other vans, If you have a shovel to bury your crap out of the way, if you remember your most precious thing you carry and have to fill from any clean water source, we spent a lot of time looking for water, one time we were trundling along short of water we passed a horse trough at the side of the road, we turned round parked up at the side of it, got the watering cans out and filled up, so next idea we can have a shower in the van,so we both got to have a shower with the traffic whizzing by, filled the tanks again and were on our way.
ray.
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