filthy tent campers

There is always enough public land or semi-public land around to park on without messing up someone's land with wheel tracks. Access by walking campers is not going to result in churned up private driveways and rutted fields, but that is the inevitable result of getting off-road in a vehicle, especially the frontwheeldrive things a lot of us drive.

Sweden (I think) or maybe Norway has an implied right of access that by default has been extended to motorhomes, BUT it is strictly applicable to uncultivated or unimproved rural land. Tended grazing land is not accessible either.

BTW Those working in Visitor Information centres are there to tell you about the local attractions, not provide authoritative advice on even the broader aspects of the law.
 
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Well Tony, could you give them a bell at the tourist office up at Lochinver and possibly inform that a clever s--t in Australia has the full particulars of their job description, and that they have no right to inform anyone of their local knowledge. Thanks, is it all right if I go for a c--p please...Bob

Ar----le
 
Fireman from Southport

Well Tony, could you give them a bell at the tourist office up at Lochinver and possibly inform that a clever s--t in Australia has the full particulars of their job description, and that they have no right to inform anyone of their local knowledge. Thanks, is it all right if I go for a c--p please...Bob

Ar----le

There is only one clever s*** with a big head and gob on this thread and forum and his name is bob6*0 pherhaps being a fireman helps living in southport as well,

well I suppose this will get me in trouble but he does go on don't he
Alf
 
Hello Bob,

So very nice to hear from you. Sorry I can't speak your language, but maybe you can find someone who can translate this into words of one syllable and then into foul language so it will make sense to you.

I guess you regularly drop in to the pub to get medical advice, or the grocers to get your car fixed or the lawyer to sort out your gardening advice so I guess it is quite logical to get legal advice from a tourist office.
Just where do you go to get tourist information?


Ah, your signature Bob?
 
There is only one clever s*** with a big head and gob on this thread and forum and his name is bob6*0 pherhaps being a fireman helps living in southport as well,

well I suppose this will get me in trouble but he does go on don't he
Alf
Hi Alffy baby, nice to hear from you! Perhaps you could pass this message on to tony when you,ve removed your tongue from his back pa..er exhaust. Its obvious his translational skills are somewhat limited. If I want informed legal or technical advice, there is no other option, contact Tony Lee, immediately, if not sooner! On any issue at all, from nuclear fusion to personal hygiene. Oh and Alffy baby I really am as common as you, honest....Bob
 
Bobby baby when another forum user raise a point even if this does not match your expert views and advice there is no need to use such language and be so obnoxious people listen to your answers so please allow others to have opinions or give answers in conflict with yours so please be a bit more understanding. also I dont know tony never met him never likly to either.

Now advice please.
Bobby baby today I went to the local library whilst browsing for a book I struck up a conversation with the librarian, the reason being I noted that they have had new fire extinguishers fitted as she seemed quite an expert on these I asked her recommendation on ones for motor caravans she said in her opinion Halon twelve eleven were the one to go for I assume that the fireman is as in fire service and not railways so what would your advice be to replace aging dry powder ones. Ones that make little mess and no damage.

Alf
 
Well Alf, takin on account youre not takin the michael, Bromochlorodifleuromethane is the only way to go, or B.C.F as its known in the trade. Its probably been updated now to some other inert gas. Then of course you have to take into account the confined space problems with all inert gasses, ask Tony, he,ll know. While I,m on which version are they using now for I.E.E regs....Bob
 
fire extinguishers

Well Alf, takin on account youre not takin the michael, Bromochlorodifleuromethane is the only way to go, or B.C.F as its known in the trade. Its probably been updated now to some other inert gas. Then of course you have to take into account the confined space problems with all inert gasses, ask Tony, he,ll know. While I,m on which version are they using now for I.E.E regs....Bob

17th mine is written in latin I had to get an intrerupter for clerk of works wanted to read

I had thought to go AFF but these seem to be very corrosive if used on a motor caravan what are your thoughts as to the best to avoid damage ( not fire damage )

Alf
 
Hi Alf, I don't usually take a lot of notice of trite or hackneyed phrases on desk calendars and signatures, but there was one I remember that seems particularly apt.

I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person. The RSPCA thinks it is cruel.

Best we let him (the one who signs his name Ar----le) get back to it.

BTW. I'm not up with all the English Dialects so you might be able to tell me. All these spaces Ar----le uses. Is that some primitive African Click language he's picked up somewhere, or is it a result of his childhood spent in some secret valley where the isolation has caused the gene pool to get dangerously shallow.

What was the original topic?

Ah yes "Filthy tent campers", subtitled "Scottish Law"
 
Well we moved from the temp holiday site the other day,

was going to spend the first night at callander, few places listed as possible wilding spots,

the one i have seen motorhomes one was just begining to flood, it's been piddeling it down for weeks up here, i should have invested in a water wheel generator instead of solar panels :)

the other carpark is the coach park up a slight hill, no chance of flooding but signs saying you'll be fined 35 quid if you dont park within a parking slot, one half of the parking area has very faint markings, coaches park along them, as do a few truckers, but i could just see we'd be the ones to get a fine for doing the same, even tho the markings havent been renewed as the others have, they are still just visable.

so went up the road to the loch where i'd seen the tent campers droppings all over the carpark, as we went past the first one we could see 2 fresh uns from the road, so i didnt even bother with the next layby up the road on that loch,

instead went to loch earn, i'd checked the place out in the smart car before and found a great wilding spot, half a mile long layby, about 50 to 70 meters of woodland between the road and layby, layby is below road level,

when i checked it out there was a bus conversion and a caravan with it's full awning set up, as well as a bloke in a caravan at the very begining who looks to have been there a while.

caravan with awning had gone when we went to spend the night there, caravan at the begining was still there,
we had the layby to ourselves except for a couple of fishermens vehicles, they had a camp on the shore, it was pelting it down all afternoon, evening and night, yet they seemed to be enjoying them selves,

they had packed up and were just leaving when we got up... ok that was at 1pm!!! we dont sleep too well when our guts and my arthritis is playing up, so when we do finaly get to sleep we sleep our 8 hours.

when they had gone we had a wander on the beach, my dog instiantly found a load of discarded fishing line with 5 of those tripple hooks on it and a ground feeder baiting thing, the line was bright green, and was visable from the road, yet they left it, luckily the dogs paws werent too badly cut up,

seems they'd divided the shore into sections, far section was where they shat, no attempt to bury it, or even flick it into the water for the fish to eat, bog roll in clumps all over that end of the shore.
then was the dumped sleeping bags, soaking wet along with 3 pairs of socks that i had seen them hanging out on a line when we arrived,
a couple of broken folding stools which i had seen them say on,

then a load of plastic knives and forks, they might not have been theirs, but the 3 disposable bbq's deffo were,

their campfire which they couldent get to burn was a freshly chopped down tree, floating in the loch was the logs they'd cut the tree into, the mangled stump of the tree easily located in the woods.


annoying thing is all along the layby are large bins, there were 2 of them right where they had parked their vehicles, it makes me wonder if those kinds of people leave the mess deliberately.

Appart from them, that big layby is excelent for wilding, silent at night, we counted about 5 vehicles an hour along the road after 8pm.
 
I've seen the river at Callander right up past the wall and into the carpark, but to get back to the thread, those morons who were fishing not only gave tent campers a bad name, but Anglers as well! if they had been on motorbikes they could have scored a hat-trick.

Frank
 
I think the problem of "filthy tent campers" lies with the fact that many of them are not "real" campers at all. They buy a cheap tent etc from Argos and the like and off they go - haven't a clue about how things work, "how to camp" or the country code etc.
And they probably don't care either, provided they've packed enough cans & bottles.

They give "proper" campers a bad name. I've camped in tents for years in the car, on the bike and backpacking (why is it that round the world travellers have now claimed this title?). I always carried/carry a trowel in my rucksack for the times when nature calls so I can bury my poo as "standard practice"

Frank

Got to agree with Frank on this. One of my biggest frustrations when visiting sites is to see Argos or Aldi first-time tenters with nothing but a tent and a sleeping bag, (not even a fresh water container.) They drive in and out, in and out, fetching coffee from McDonalds etc etc. Their tents are so badly pitched, they would just flatten and pour water in at the slightest of inclement weather. Now don't get me wrong., I like a beer as much as the next man, but their BBQ parties with accompanying pumping music from the nearest car stereo are just the icing on the cake.
Our first family tent cost £260 in the 80's, not to mention the stove, table and chairs, trailer to carry it all, blah blah. I can't help but worry about where camping is going with the advent of 20 quid tents.
 
Not just tenter's:eek:
On our recent jaunt to France & Spain we were using aire facilities to empty our cassette and :eek:
I had just emptied the cassette and was putting it back in the van prior to flushing & cleaning the grid area when a French wildcamper from a old banger of a van (not m/h) came and immediately put his water container down on the ground over the unclean black water grid. (he knew it was still dirty):eek::eek:
We just could not believe our eyes, but then again when you see how some of the French use the aire facilities you can understand:D:D
We always disinfect the taps prior to filling our tanks or even touching the taps:)
Hygiene! what Hygiene;):D

have seen a few strange things regarding the hygene issue in France, including human waste complete with toilet paper in the middle of laybyes, and toilet scenareos that I have seen nowhere else in the world.
 
have seen a few strange things regarding the hygene issue in France, including human waste complete with toilet paper in the middle of laybyes, and toilet scenareos that I have seen nowhere else in the world.



then in the CARPARK there were turds, human turds, as i dont think dogs wipe their arses on pink bog roll.


These same people get around a bit. Scotland one week, France the next.
 
What is wrong with people,they need educating by gunpoint.Maybe they would be scared into mending their ways.Obviously dragged up on a council estate somewhere,you know the ones,easily identifiable by the amount of furniture just dumped in their own gardens,oh yes and the stench of their dog **** just left lying around in large clumps for people to slip in.

Dirty filthy *******s! or campers..
 

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