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Living in one room and crapping in a bucket.

Steve

Well there you are Andy, Darren has saved me all that typing ey!

Living in one room and crapping in a bucket.

Steve

No actually Steve, sleeping in one room...just like home... living outdoors 'cus you are on holiday...and crapping in a toilet that would put many a hotel to shame!

Living in one room and crapping in a bucket.

Steve

PMSL!

If humans had been meant to carry their homes around with them, we'd all have been born as tortoises

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Exactly the faces i pull when stuck behind a 2 wheeled sh*tbox

Living in one room and crapping in a bucket.

Steve

Sounds like a Paddington B&B i stayed in last time i was working in London :eek:

In fact the topic of caravan buying has been discussed at great length in the Jimmy household recently as a low cost holiday alternative for many of the reasons outlined above

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As the sig goes of one of our members "I'd rather shove wasps up my ar5e"

No actually Steve, sleeping in one room...just like home... living outdoors 'cus you are on holiday...and crapping in a toilet that would put many a hotel to shame!

I find that having a caravan is like having a skoda ............

.....you get looked down at by people who know sod all about the subject and often they are the people you are happy to avoid by going caravanning!

AT LAST. Someone who has obviously TRIED it, and realises the benefits.....

especially when you've got 2 kids and can't afford

CJ, as long as you travel in the hours of darkness you're ok by me

Blinkered? Yes

It comes from many highly annoying hours stuck behind inconsiderate caravanners trying to tow their contraptions up the likes of Sutton Bank with a 1.4 Escort.

CJ' date=' as long as you travel in the hours of darkness you're ok by me

Blinkered? Yes

It comes from many highly annoying hours stuck behind inconsiderate caravanners trying to tow their contraptions up the likes of Sutton Bank with a 1.4 Escort.[/quote']

Ay Geoff,that's what the right pedal is for, and that steaming lump under your bonnet to react to it!

Givit the biffters fellah and sail past them...excluding me...I actually DO get a move on and am very concious of gathering ques behind me if going up long steep gradients...and pull over to alieviate the problem accordingly.

Must say I get pretty p1ssed off with the attitude of some motorists though,who have just GOT to get past you 'cus you've got a caravan behind,and will cut you up good style!

Entry sliproads are the worst,and I will not back off and lose my speed just because they HAVE to get in front of you. Sorry,thought those dotted white lines meant.. :confused: GIVE WAY??

towing with the vRS.....they have to catch me before they can get stuck behind me!

seriously though - SOME caravan towers are a pain but them they are probably also a pain when solo.I have just as much trouble stuck behind bl**dy whores boxes ,tractors,and just about any other sort of trailor. Its the age old human problem,you only notice the bad ones.Locally we have loads of the horsey types that plod along in lorries they are not capable of driving -they go down tiny country roads and cause havoc - expecting every one to get round them

it does not take a great deal of sense to let anything following you to get through - but then consideration has gone down the drain everywhere

Ay Geoff' date='that's what the right pedal is for, and that steaming lump under your bonnet to react to it!

Givit the biffters fellah and sail past them...excluding me...I actually DO get a move on and am very concious of gathering ques behind me if going up long steep gradients...and pull over to alieviate the problem accordingly.

Must say I get pretty p1ssed off with the attitude of some motorists though,who have just GOT to get past you 'cus you've got a caravan behind,and will cut you up good style!

Entry sliproads are the worst,and I will not back off and lose my speed just because they HAVE to get in front of you. Sorry,thought those dotted white lines meant.. :confused: GIVE WAY??[/quote']

give way......that meaning changed years ago - at the same time that indicators stopped meaning " i would like to pull out " and became " I AM pulling out despite you" ( of course this comment does not apply to bmw's - every one knows they do not have woring indicators!)

Ay Geoff' date='that's what the right pedal is for, and that steaming lump under your bonnet to react to it!

Givit the biffters fellah and sail past them...excluding me...I actually DO get a move on and am very concious of gathering ques behind me if going up long steep gradients...and pull over to alieviate the problem accordingly.

Must say I get pretty p1ssed off with the attitude of some motorists though,who have just GOT to get past you 'cus you've got a caravan behind,and will cut you up good style!

Entry sliproads are the worst,and I will not back off and lose my speed just because they HAVE to get in front of you. Sorry,thought those dotted white lines meant.. :confused: GIVE WAY??[/quote']

Aye....it's great fun being 10 cars back in a convoy headed by a caravan.

The other 9 cars in front rarely have 230Bhp on tap. and then theres cameras and oncoming traffic to contend with.

You talk a lot of sense young Scrutineer!

Horse boxes only seem cabable of 30mph max!

Sad to say though you are right. A lot of caravan draggers do drive like numpties and give us proper ( I hope!) caravanners a bloody bad name. Makes me wild that we all get tarred with the same flamin brush!

Aye....it's great fun being 10 cars back in a convoy headed by a caravan.

The other 9 cars in front rarely have 230Bhp on tap. and then theres cameras and oncoming traffic to contend with.

Wot's that then? 9 Volvos with slobbery dogs 'angin out the window in front of you?

Horse boxes are worse,as Scrutineer rightly says. 30 mph max with a 1/2 mile que behind, on a straight road!

Personally I seem to spend more time being held up ,than the other way round - how many times do you catch up with a numptie ( possible a grumpy one in a silver car!! ) and find they will not be overtaken by a caravan and they drive faster than they are happy-just to stay in front. You can see them,they keep glaring in the morror and usually the passengers keep turning round a looking -you know they are talking about you but they still stay there

am I in rouble for the silver car comment? :eek:

sadly its time for bed - shame really i was enjoying this

colin- we caravanners must stick together

geoff - yep - your are faster,,,,,but you are out numbered

you've got exactly two minutes to get the last comment in!!

sadly its time for bed - shame really i was enjoying this

colin- we caravanners must stick together

geoff - yep - your are faster' date=',,,,but you are out numbered

you've got exactly two minutes to get the last comment in!! [/quote']

100% right there fellah! Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. I was a Monkeyhanger & Co. type (cast) until 1997!

Will continue this debate later if needs be

Aye....it's great fun being 10 cars back in a convoy headed by a caravan.

What you don't realise is that you are actually 11 cars back but the caravan is stuck behind someone!

Lets be honest, if we are "making progress" cross country even someone in a hot hatch "pressing on" is not going quick enough for us and we have to find space to overtake, so is a caravan any different?

My folks tow with a 2.2 LWB frontera and I've seen *them* overtaking things on many occasion as they only tow a light 2 berth van.

It's the idiots in 1.4 focus' with huge heavy vans that cause a) problems and stereotypes.

Coming back from Wrexham yesterday pm on the wrexham bypass and was following a very large Hobby caravan being towed by a Range Rover. I trickled past him at 85mph! The whole outfit was as steady as a rock too!

Who says caravan drivers are slouches? Overtaking everyone he was.

Don't think I'd go that fast mind!

People moan about getting stuck behind caravans but how come they never moan about getting stuck behind a 33bhp splitty camper?

At least caravans tend to keep a reasonable speed up hills.