whats your strangest or funniest caravan experiance

[ww2nut]

have you had a funny or strange caravan experiance, or have you witnessed some caravan maddness!!
DO TELL.....
i love caravaning and dont want to make fun of people who (maby because they are inexperianced) make silly and entertaining mistakes
but what the hell....we've all been there!

Apart from the usual corner steady going through the floor, i have witnessed some crackers over the years
1. the family that brought a heavy wooden dinning room table for a family meal in the awning, topped off with silver candle sticks!
2. the couple who did everything apart from lowering the corner steadies! resulting in a see saw issue for a few minutes!
3.the rather randy neighbours who liked late night awning fun, backlit by a lamp, set in the wrong place!
4. and finally the poor family, who after a late night row over not liking caravanning, left the site....minus a very old and sad looking brown fronted van, it may still be there.......
over to you........

 

[LMH]

At Robin Hood's bay, a lovely site with spectacular views, but sloping site. Front of caravan about four foot in the air so it's level. Middle of the night, gales blowing like you've never heard. I was absolutely terrified,talk about caravan rocking.... I thought the caravan would blow over.

Got up at 2am and sat in the awning as that felt safer. Watched three tenters leave the site (one without their tent). Saw a ship in the bay with all its lights on. Husband gets up at 3am to see where I was. I explained my fear. He couldn't understand it. He said, 'why don't you take your camera and walk down to the bay and get some shots of the boat'!!!!

AT THREE AM???? In gale force winds, by myself

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Not a funny story, more one of terror!! But that put me off sloping sites which are close to the cliffs. Spectacular views, yes, but OMG I'm not one to scare easily but at the time, I wished I was back in suburbia.

Lisa

 

[ValA.]

That must have been at Hook House Farm - where we actually saw a caravan blown off it's 'mooring' and career down the hill into the side of a Range Rover! Fortunately no-one was injured - and it happened during the day - but you were right to be scared!

Funniest for us was the German family who arrived next to us with large Mercedes Estate and large van - out of the van came a full size domestic fridge freezer, about forty decking panels, and some white plastic picket fence. The deck was erected, the fridge installed, and the fence put up around, the sunshade up - then out came the family size table, eight chairs, a full sized (large - pre-flat screen days) TV, satellite dish, and camping kitchen. Next was the full size ironing board and iron.
Out came his fishing rods, and he went off - and she swept the deck, polished the table, got out a bucket and toothbrush and cleaned all the plastic fence, then went off to do what looked like a full load of washing, followed by drying and ironing, all hung neatly on the full size rack. He came back from fishing, she made a meal, they ate, he went fishing ......................... and this went on for 12 days. She never left the campsite once - she obviously went to the laundry because every day there were at least three shirts drying, then being ironed, and the fence was washed every day! Only once was the table and eight chairs used by anyone other than the couple whose pitch it was - and that was a brief and short event! We called them Herr and Frau Shirt - because all she ever seemed to do was iron his shirts.
Somewhere in our albums I've got photographs, otherwise we still wouldn't have believed it happened!

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

She never left the campsite once - she obviously went to the laundry because every day there were at least three shirts drying, then being ironed, and the fence was washed every day! We called them Herr and Frau Shirt - because all she ever seemed to do was iron his shirts.

Typical feminist post

Just think how bored this woman would have been without her thoughtful loving husband having to go through the ritual of having to change his shirt three times a day. These women today are a rarity and should be put on a pedestal as an example to all others of how things should really be

 

[LMH]

That must have been at Hook House Farm - where we actually saw a caravan blown off it's 'mooring' and career down the hill into the side of a Range Rover! Fortunately no-one was injured - and it happened during the day - but you were right to be scared!

Hi Val

Yes it was. A lovely site but I don't think I'd stop there again. God, the sight you saw must have been very scary, and thank goodness no one was hurt. The owner tows you in and out and sites the van.

Had a chuckle about the German family. Not much of a holiday in my eyes.

Lisa

 

[followmycaravan]

Caravan trip with my girlfriends mum and dad. I accidentally got into a huge religious argument. Not cool

 

[JohnM20]

Lisa's experience reminds me of only our second trip out with my parent's old Robin caravan over 25 years ago. We went to Lulworth Cove and, getting there late afternoon, there was no choice of where to pitch. The only place left was a little knoll at the top of what was already quite a sloping site down to the cliff edge. We had to find quite a few blocks to put under the front steadies as no way would they reach the ground otherwise. You could have almost sat in a deckchair under the front of the 'van it was so high in the air.
The first night we were there the wind got up to near gale force and the caravan started to rock. Needless to say we didn't sleep at all and fearing that the 'van would soon take a trip down the site and over the cliff we decided to spend the rest of the night in the car.
The next morning the caravan was still in place and the wind had died down considerably so for the rest of the holiday we were able to risk sleeping in the 'van. It is one memory of caravanning that I don't think I'll forget. It seems quite funny now but not at the time.

 

[ValA.]

She never left the campsite once - she obviously went to the laundry because every day there were at least three shirts drying, then being ironed, and the fence was washed every day! We called them Herr and Frau Shirt - because all she ever seemed to do was iron his shirts.

Typical feminist post

Just think how bored this woman would have been without her thoughtful loving husband having to go through the ritual of having to change his shirt three times a day. These women today are a rarity and should be put on a pedestal as an example to all others of how things should really be

True, Lord B - after all what would she have done on her holidays without all the laundry! I suppose she could have taken up fishing as well, just to be even more supportive to her beloved!

 

[emmerson]

I haven't really got any funny stories, which may sound strange after all the years we've been caravanning. It's just ALL been fun!

 

[Timbo1]

Many moons ago when rallying it was the norm to pitch a toilet tent. Our friends were packing up and the wife thought she'd just pop in for a last tiddle. Unbeknown to her, hubby had already pulled the pegs out as he had been doing his peg pulling rounds.... a gust of wind later and there she was in all her glory, drawers round her ankles, sitting on a porta potti in the middle of a field. Priceless...

 

[Oldsalt49]

We were on a site, can't remember where. A yound French couple were in the van next to us. The woman would return from the shower every morning and spend at least 30 minutes rubbing cream all over her naked body with the caravan door open. I wasn't looking honest gov!!!!!!

She never once asked if I could do her back!!!!

One time at Wood Farm, Charmouth. A bunch of lads in a car, came down the steep hill and then onto the wet grass. They lost control, braked but could not stop the car and ploughed straight through a tent. Luckily the occupants were out, but their holiday was spoilt.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

I suppose she could have taken up fishing as well, just to be even more supportive to her beloved!

I see you are now beginning to see reason Val

In going fishing with him she could always shove his maggot baitbox down her bloomers to keep them warm and wriggly

although there is no need to go to this extreme. She has already proved her undying devotion to her loving, doting husband by washing his shirts, feeding him and no doubt giving him his nightly comfort if he's depressed after losing a big 'un. This helps for when he has to get up at the crack of dawn to go dangle his worm again

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

The woman would return from the shower every morning and spend at least 30 minutes rubbing cream all over her naked body with the caravan door open. I wasn't looking !!!!!!

I bet you risked one eye

 

[Oldsalt49]

The woman would return from the shower every morning and spend at least 30 minutes rubbing cream all over her naked body with the caravan door open. I wasn't looking !!!!!!

I bet you risked one eye

Ha! Ha! I had to say that just incase my beloved reads this!!!!! But, after all, whats wrong with a little bit of window shopping????