Inconsiderate motor home owners

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  • Tinwheeler
    Tinwheeler Forum Participant Posts: 23,138 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2021 #92

    A week in late Sept/early Oct will cost £595  and probably more.

    It's as AutoTrail V Line 669. With a Bristol reg it would probably have been supplied new by one of the dealerships in Somerset. I see the hire company also sells vans on occasion……

  • SeasideBill
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    edited August 2021 #93

    Ah, you’ve all sussed me out. I drove 150 miles to Bristol, hired a van, drove back it to Cornwall to empty the cassette toilet, swapped the car park  machine for an antique cash version, staged a memorable photograph and returned it. TW could probably supply the VIN number as well as many will be interested? There’s no fooling some of you lot eh?

  • Cornersteady
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    edited August 2021 #94

    It was registered/logbook issued on 25th March this year, it has a 2287 cc Euro 6D-CI engine and is taxed, if that helps?smile

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2021 #95

    True, much as you try, there’s no fooling some of us. We can spot em a mile off.🤣🤣

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2021 #96

    Only the manual 6 speed gearbox though😕

  • moulesy
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    edited August 2021 #97

    It was a super wheeze, Bill, though ultimately unsuccessful in attracting the storm of protest one might have expected; guaranteed, though, to amuse the gullible/easily tickled! wink

    I'd still love to know where that "quiet in August" car park is though,  but I guess, a bit like Harry's AS, it's destiny is to remain forever unknown.  laughing

  • SeasideBill
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    edited August 2021 #98

    What bit of the statement “cars were queuing to get in when I arrived earlier in the day” don’t you get?

  • moulesy
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    edited August 2021 #99

    Should have taken the photo then!   laughing

    But, hey, it looks quiet enough when you took the picture you did - late in the day, I assume!  wink

  • GTrimmer
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    edited August 2021 #100

    How lucky to have the benefit of a reliable phone signal. 

  • SeasideBill
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    edited August 2021 #101

    No prizes for that one Sherlock, the shadow in the foreground is a bit of a give away. Location is Porthcothan Bay. 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited August 2021 #102

    to tell the truth GT, apart from up in mountains my mobile signal has never failed me and never in the lake's villages and towns.

  • moulesy
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    edited August 2021 #103

    "Location is Porthcothan Bay."

    Thanks for that - didn'the recognise it, some years since we've been there - might well come over for a walk with the dogs next week (but not Bank Holiday weekend!) Are they allowed on the beach?  smile

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2021 #104

    "Pillock parking" isn't the sole province of motorhomers. A significant proportion of car drivers don't park their cars. They abandon them at a place convenient to themselves. How often do you see a car that parks just far enough away from the next one that you can't get another car into the space?

  • Vanbirds68
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    edited August 2021 #105

    We still do exactly this when we stay on a farm up in your neck of the woods. In fact, our son and his family are camping up there right now doing that very same thing 😉

  • Vanbirds68
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    edited August 2021 #106

    I very very rarely display parking tickets now. Haven’t done so for a long time. I can’t imagine what you’d have to say if you saw my car parked up somewhere. Perhaps they use a parking app? Maybe if parking spaces allowed for large vehicles drivers wouldn’t have to park in this way. I can see that if they were tight inside the regulatory white lines they wouldn’t be able to get out, particularly if they had children to manoeuvre out of car seats or elderly passengers with a dodgy hip like me that needs wide open spaces to exit a car! 

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited August 2021 #107

    Dogs are allowed on Porthcothan, we have used it for years. I think this is most up to date map and information around beaches and dogs

    https://www.cornwall-beaches.co.uk/dog-friendly

    We know a few on the “no information” section that allow dogs. Will happily share it with you at a later date😉 Good information for Nellie as well, more might be off the restricted list by time they reach Cornwall later in year. Change date is usually 30th September I think. A lot of the dog friendly beaches are some of the really nice, not so busy ones, mainly because the involve a bit of a walk to get to sometimes. Downside of course is that they are often not Lifeguarded. 

  • EmilysDad
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    edited August 2021 #108

    That might very well be me then. I don't want you to park next to me at Asda. My car fills the space & if I can persuade you to park somewhere else  .....  

    But I only do that on the other side of the car park from the store.

  • Rufs
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    edited August 2021 #109

    Lots of bad press for inconsiderate parking for this beach, and it is not just MH owners, folk moving traffic cones, parking on verge, blocking access road etcundecidedlocals are not happy

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2021 #110

    That’s news to me. Have you got a link?

  • Navigateur
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    edited August 2021 #111

    I saw an episode of the Merton/Webster series involving travelling about in a motor caravan, where they appeared to park it across the big door of a Lifeboat Station and went off onto the beach to eat oysters.  Perhaps someone who uses the catch-up application could take a closer look and confirm that was what was shown.

  • Rufs
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    edited August 2021 #112

    No because i got my places mixed up was reading about Porthcurno , sorry surprised

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2021 #113

    I thought you might have😂😂.

    No worries👍🏻

  • SeasideBill
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    edited August 2021 #114

    It always good practice to read the post that you’re responding to unless you’re telling us that you don’t display tickets, just because you chose not to? If so, hope that works out well for you.🤪

    One of the benefits of driving a panel van conversion is you can easily get out courtesy of the sliding door, even in the tightest of spaces. As for the size of parking spaces, you’re probably preaching to the converted, but if you can’t get in, go and park somewhere you can. You don’t have an inalienable right to park at a location of your choice and if you’ve got mobility problems, maybe you need a blue badge?

  • SeasideBill
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    edited August 2021 #115

    A beach that’s far too popular for it’s own good. There are 200+ beaches and coves in Cornwall and everybody seems to want to sit on that one! 

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited August 2021 #116

    We took one look at the queues to get there (Porthcurno) last year and decided Cornwall wasn’t for us. It’s the poster beach for the County in some ways, stunningly beautiful, but much like other iconic locations (Snowdon, JoG, etc...) surrounded by other very beautiful options. The Tide has to be out as well.......😂

  • tricia11
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    edited August 2021 #117

    Please don TAR us with the same brush. Not all of us avoid site cost s we keep the clubs going . We like our luxury s.😜🤗

  • young thomas
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    edited August 2021 #118

    'Luxury' can be measured in many ways....if one thinks it's a CC pitch and shower block, then great...

    you don't even need to be on a campsite to enjoy 'luxury'....the location and the company well outstrip anything to be found up tight to a white pegwink

  • triky auto
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    edited August 2021 #119

    undecided That sequence was at Whitstable in Kent .One of the first shown ,after they wild camped at Seasalter earlier .They and the location team and producers should have known better than to impede an RNLI facility. yell.

  • Navigateur
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    edited August 2021 #120

    Thank you. To be kind to them all I wonder if the building is no longer used for launches, similar to the situation in Whitby where the Lifeboat is now bigger than the original building and is moored in the harbour instead of launching.

  • eyebrowsb
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    edited August 2021 #121

    I hope this person isn't a C&MC member.  Recently caught dumping toilet waste near a loch in Scotland.  Utterly disgraceful.  Yes you can see his number plate.  He needs to be outed.