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Post by Miculo on Apr 23, 2014 15:46:33 GMT
Concorde seem to be have been on a big sales drive recently. We have seen dozens of new examples this winter. They were once quite uncommon and suddenly they are everywhere. Fine, a decent van by all accounts.
One has just arrived where we are and parked pretty well as far as they could get from the service point. Out they got and off they went across the car park to the water tap. They are carrying one bucket and one watering can each and have been traipsing back and forth for the last 20 minutes.
I don't know what size the fresh water tank might be, well over 100 litres I am sure, more like 200 to be any use. I don't know the price of a big shiny new Concorde but well over €100k I expect.
If you can afford a van like that surely you can afford €2 to fill with water using the machine?
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Post by fatwelshbuddha on Apr 23, 2014 15:53:59 GMT
must be that Concorde owners are a bit strange. one rolled into an aire at Lac du Der-Chantecoq a couple of weeks ago when we were there for the night - on proud display on the dashboard was a model of a 3 masted schooner and a 3' lighthouse. wtf??? but they were Germans so maybe not so strange.....
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Post by Miculo on Apr 23, 2014 16:25:15 GMT
Ha!
I can beat that.
We were parked on a nice little aire enjoying the sun one afternoon when a German van towing a trailer pulled in close to us. Not a very big van but towing a canvas covered trailer big enough to have a small car in it. Out they got complete with two dogs, an artificial grass mat the size of a small patio, table, chairs, little table decorations etc. A bit odd but there you go.
Next came the trailer. They rolled the sides up and removed them revealing dozens of potted plants. It was like a mobile fucking greenhouse. They plopped a few plants around their "patio" then started tending to all of them. Next morning they did it all in reverse and off they went. Truly fucking weird. I guessed they may have been wintering somewhere and brought the plants to decorate their pitch.
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Post by fatwelshbuddha on Apr 23, 2014 16:38:56 GMT
it is of course possible that they have nobody back home to look after said plants while they are away, but it does seem a bit bizarre to travel around with them. we grow a lot of stuff in pots at home but luckily we have a tame neighbour who waters them while we're away in return for a few bottles of hooch.
but pot plants must be a German thing as on a campsite on the same trip, a caravan rolls up and as soon as all settled in a few plants were deposited outside the caravan door.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 16:55:26 GMT
...on a campsite on the same trip, a caravan rolls up and as soon as all settled in a few plants were deposited outside the caravan door. How nice of them to attempt to brighten up the neighbourhood. When we we arrive we simply dump all the rubbish we've accumulated since our last stop outside the door and hope it blows away!
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Post by Davy on Apr 23, 2014 21:53:03 GMT
Think We saw them on Ile du Re last June. Did the van have huge graphics of their dogs on the back?
Davy
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Post by alhod on Apr 23, 2014 22:56:49 GMT
We were parked on an aire in Dordogne with a BIG Concord in one corner. He had a stream of cars pulling in, driver going into the BIG C and five minutes later driving off. That happened several times in the evening. Wonder how he affords the C - any ideas?
Alan
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Post by Miculo on Apr 24, 2014 7:30:52 GMT
Think We saw them on Ile du Re last June. Did the van have huge graphics of their dogs on the back? Davy Sorry Davy, can't remember, may have had. Asked Mrs. Eb and she doesn't either. I can't believe she didn't photograph them, she photographs everything else.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Apr 24, 2014 7:50:02 GMT
The Germans do have a reputation for spreading out and trying to occupy as much land as possible. wonder why? Funniest thing I remember is one bloke on a Swiss campsite going back and forth all afternoon to the sinks with a single item of cutlery to wash up. Every time he went back his wife would be at him nagging about something. He picked up another item and skulked back to the sinks to wash it and then skulked back for another. I guess it was his way of keeping away from the nagging! Poor sod.
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Post by Davy on Apr 24, 2014 18:21:53 GMT
Hi erneboy, The fact that you and Mrs. Erneboy didn't spot any graphics, raises the scary possibility that there are more than one of these travelling Chelsea flower shows!!
I hate to think what it would look like if two or three of them were on the same site at the same time.
It would be like arriving at a housing estate for your holidays.
Perhaps they hanker after a static caravan but are too embarrassed to 'come out'
On the other hand perhaps they are proper fruitcake material.
Go on Barry, you know you want to invite them to become members.
Davy
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