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| What do you think about caravans?; 100 years of the caravan club | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 15 2007, 09:52 AM (548 Views) | |
| Steelstallions | Jun 15 2007, 09:52 AM Post #1 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm I cannot stand the sight of them, and getting stuck behind a couple of them is like paddling in treacle. My usual quote to a caravan holiday is "if there is no room service, i aint going" |
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| Steelstallions | Jun 15 2007, 09:54 AM Post #2 |
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http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/res...e=all&edition=d link that works |
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| JJB-Ferrari | Jun 15 2007, 09:57 AM Post #3 |
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blow them all up!!!! |
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| u4coffee | Jun 15 2007, 10:02 AM Post #4 |
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How a Caravan and a car can work together properly: Top Gear Clip And How they don't: Renault 5 + Caravan + Hill |
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| Steelstallions | Jun 15 2007, 10:04 AM Post #5 |
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here you go mate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=625OsObNXRc...related&search= i feel better already
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| JJB-Ferrari | Jun 15 2007, 10:05 AM Post #6 |
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| JJB-Ferrari | Jun 15 2007, 10:06 AM Post #7 |
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ahhh, much better!
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| The STIG | Jun 15 2007, 11:16 AM Post #8 |
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I'll stick to my motorhome, thanks. (it's (legally)faster!) |
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| Grandslammer | Jun 15 2007, 11:32 AM Post #9 |
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I had many a happy year on the permanent* Marshal's campsite at Silverstone in my tatty old caravan (kept me warm and dry) One trip up,start of the season,one trip home at the end Apart from the trips to the GP's at Brands,that's about the sum total of my caravanning adventures *= no longer permanent |
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| Norbert | Jun 15 2007, 11:37 AM Post #10 |
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I think I'd rather go to a hotel than wear my car out pulling one along with me... (assuming I had either!) Plus you have to clean your own caravan, it doesn't have room service (unless the wife/gf is willing) and you still have to cook. Your fuel economy goes downhill, and the other motorists hate you for getting in the way, and can't see past you making overtaking either very rare, or very dangerous. Unless you spend every other weekend away from home on holiday, it must be cheaper, more convenient and far less arse-ache to simply book a hotel room or B+B. When was the last time your hotel got a flat tyre or stuck in a muddy field?
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| JJB-Ferrari | Jun 15 2007, 11:42 AM Post #11 |
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I'd rather be in a tent. |
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| Grandslammer | Jun 15 2007, 11:44 AM Post #12 |
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I'm sure there's more than a hint of competition on caravan sites Bigger and better,'keeping up with the Jones's' so to speak
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| Norbert | Jun 15 2007, 11:46 AM Post #13 |
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Surely sinking up to the wheel arches with the Joneses would be more apt.... |
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| stradlin24 | Jun 15 2007, 05:42 PM Post #14 |
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i don't like them i was driving down the M62 in torrential rain this morning (at 5.20am!) and passed a caravan on its way to a camp site somwhere should be a nice wet weekend for those people deserves them right |
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| wickedwitch | Jun 15 2007, 05:46 PM Post #15 |
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My ex and I used to have a caravan. Initially we bought it because he raced karts and when we travelled a fair way from home we needed (a) something to transport the kart and (b) somewhere to stay close to the tracks. He subsequently gave up racing when we took up marshalling so the caravan was used just about every weekend during the summer months, trekking from Yorkshire to Oulton, Donington, Mallory and Silverstone and back. If we'd had to find B&Bs or hotel accommodation for the 60 odd days a year we went marshalling it would have cost us an arm and a leg. So for us, it was cheaper to use the caravan. From a marshalling point of view the caravan was better than a tent because we had somewhere warm and dry to sleep at the end of a wet day and somewhere to cook hot food if it was still raining. It was a very old, scruffy thing but it served it's purpose and saved us a huge amount of money. |
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