Who let the Dutch have motor movers?
We've been in Hungary for a few weeks. Anyone who's been there will know that sites tend to be 'rustic', pitch where and how you want.
This flexibility has been utilised to the full by some of the large numbers of Dutch caravanners we're seeing.
Of particular note is the new-to-us phenomenon of the Dutch sunflower.
On four different occassions we've seen a different Dutch caravan park up after careful reference to a compass, deploy the usual table, chairs, loungers etc,.
Then, roughly every two hours you hear the furniture being moved and the noise of motor movers swinging into action and the caravan is rotated west to follow the sun!
Literally, every couple of hours they swivel the van to follow the sun, door side facing the sun so that they can get maximum tanning time, presumably without having to go into the shade to get refreshments etc.. Utterly bizare.
The humour wore off when they rotated the d*mn thing back to facing east at silly o'clock this morning. By 10.30 they'd started the game again.
Anyone else come across this?
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Crikey. That is bizarre. Don't they ever go off site?
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Good for them I say! Always enjoyed the company of Dutch folk on sites we have stayed on, very friendly, very helpful.
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I can't see the rotating van being well received on a CC site.
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I can't see the rotating van being well received on a CC site.
With the supposed cut in staff, no one would spot you especially if you moved the peg as well
...Except we have noticed on more and more sites that white paint is sprayed on the ground/grass where peg goes
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I can't see the rotating van being well received on a CC site.
With the supposed cut in staff, no one would spot you especially if you moved the peg as well
...Except we have noticed on more and more sites that white paint is sprayed on the ground/grass where peg goes
Good thinking, One.
JVB, if we carried our own spray can of white paint and sprayed 4 spots on the pitch it should cause enough confusion to hide the crime.
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They had obviously thought of this eventuality at Maragowan. The spike was firmly implanted into the ground in a hole and the post slotted onto it. Only noticed it when we pushed the van right to the back of the pitch, so we could hitch the car off the road.
Had to be careful not to put the spike through the tyre.0 -
Or, rather than introducing another 'Don't do this as well' rule, have a third type of pitch that rotates. So you have grass, hard standing, and rotating. would appeal to the rail enthusiasts as well.
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Must make tuning the telly a bit tedious.
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I haven't seen caravans being moved to follow the sun, but have seen them being moved (several times) on a very windy site, to make sure they were always facing away from the wind. We've done this ourselves, in fact, and once moved around the pitch three
times to avoid the mistral and the tramontane winds!0 -
Knowing how the Dutch love their satellite tv, I am surprised that the mover wasn't wired up to automatically track the sun. The Dutch are great campers, take forever to clean their groundsheets etc.
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It does seem that setting up the satellite dish is the major concern of Dutch campers. It seems the first thing they do when they arrive on pitch!!!
David
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Not sure why you need to move the caravan as the table and chairs are outside and you can just move them. I assume they switch the mover on and off each time they move the caravan as if not their could be chaos with them moving each others. There again they
could all up the legs together and just use one control. With a bit of practice we could have sequence caravan moving.0 -
Quick update to answer a couple of the queries.
The satellite dish issue is solved by having it some distance away on a very long cable, using the car to 'claim' the territory in between.
Don't know anything about movers but yes, they remain hooked up when using the mover.
I'm beginning to think that the Dutch also have either very light (and large) caravans, or they work on different towing 'rules' to the UK. Tow cars I can currently see are: Golf, Berlingo, Astra, Mazda3 and Skoda Davis. All look very light to me?
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That will be the Dutch version of European harmonisation then!
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I'm beginning to think that the Dutch also have either very light (and large) caravans, or they work on different towing 'rules' to the UK. Tow cars I can currently see are: Golf, Berlingo, Astra, Mazda3 and
Skoda Davis. All look very light to me?They don't have much in the way of hills in Holland, so reckon they don't need such large cars maybe?
It's the same in Denmark.....big vans being towed by what look like small cars.
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