Bizarre things that Motorhomers do…

[Feltwell]

Driving down through France today, stopped at aire on the motorway for a break at about 3 this afternoon. Not one of the picnic site only aires, one of the ones that is a petrol station with a large car park next to it.

Anyway, 3 British vans pull in next to me. The motorhome bit is right in the middle of a sea of tarmac, cars on one side, trucks on the other.

Right in the middle of the parking bays, out on the tarmac next to their vans, they proceed to unload tables, chairs, a generator and a full size gas barbecue and start setting it all up!

Just seems a very bizarre place to want to set up a barbecue with friends…. There was plenty of space and they weren’t harming anyone, but it must have confirmed a few suspicions about the British to a lot of travellers!

 

[Two of usI]

Why????

 

[Verteuil Man]

Driving down through France today, stopped at aire on the motorway for a break at about 3 this afternoon. Not one of the picnic site only aires, one of the ones that is a petrol station with a large car park next to it.

Anyway, 3 British vans pull in next to me. The motorhome bit is right in the middle of a sea of tarmac, cars on one side, trucks on the other.

Right in the middle of the parking bays, out on the tarmac next to their vans, they proceed to unload tables, chairs, a generator and a full size gas barbecue and start setting it all up!

Just seems a very bizarre place to want to set up a barbecue with friends…. There was plenty of space and they weren’t harming anyone, but it must have confirmed a few suspicions about the British to a lot of travellers!

Mad dogs etc.

 

[Wildbill]

Each to ther own

 

[bobnick]

Maybe they were hungry

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[chaser]

Driving down through France today, stopped at aire on the motorway for a break at about 3 this afternoon. Not one of the picnic site only aires, one of the ones that is a petrol station with a large car park next to it.

Anyway, 3 British vans pull in next to me. The motorhome bit is right in the middle of a sea of tarmac, cars on one side, trucks on the other.

Right in the middle of the parking bays, out on the tarmac next to their vans, they proceed to unload tables, chairs, a generator and a full size gas barbecue and start setting it all up!

Just seems a very bizarre place to want to set up a barbecue with friends…. There was plenty of space and they weren’t harming anyone, but it must have confirmed a few suspicions about the British to a lot of travellers!

I think your last sentence covers it, where do travelers mostly pitch up here.

 

[PDrill]

I'd have a picnic with friends absolutely where ever as long as it was legal and suitable in the current place. A supermarket parking lot would be hilarious but my friends don't see it that way, they always want to do it the way that it looks nice and enviable in a social media posting :-/

 

[Lenny HB]

Don't sound like normal Motorhomers to me, I think chaser hit the nail on the head.

I hope they had a tablecloth, a big no, no in France not to have one on your picnic table.

 

[Lenny HB]

We got invited to an Italian cheese & wine party (about a dozen Italian Motorhomes) in the car park at Caen museum we had a great evening.

 

[iandsm]

Driving down through France today, stopped at aire on the motorway for a break at about 3 this afternoon. Not one of the picnic site only aires, one of the ones that is a petrol station with a large car park next to it.

Anyway, 3 British vans pull in next to me. The motorhome bit is right in the middle of a sea of tarmac, cars on one side, trucks on the other.

Right in the middle of the parking bays, out on the tarmac next to their vans, they proceed to unload tables, chairs, a generator and a full size gas barbecue and start setting it all up!

Just seems a very bizarre place to want to set up a barbecue with friends…. There was plenty of space and they weren’t harming anyone, but it must have confirmed a few suspicions about the British to a lot of travellers!

I have seen French people have n cars do exactly that in HGV spaces. Complete with table, with tablecloth of course, and chairs. Madam used the boot of the car as kitchen and a meal was produced with wine and coffee after. No one except us took any notice. We just thought they were stylish and didn’t give a monkeys about it being an HGV space. Strangely enough the lorry drivers didn’t care either.

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[StephandJohn]

The same with French lorry drivers in HGV parks. Proper little table with cloth, those small squat glasses and wine (!) proper food etc etc etc.
Unfortunately, to our minds, they do a lot of weeing in car parks too!

 

[Ven]

Although not my ideal as we tend to try and find somewhere a bit more pleasant for a leisurely lunch, each to their own. Perhaps they were splitting up after and it was their last meal together? In our experience it’s not unusual to see lorry drivers in France or Spain to set up gas cooking outside their lorry and cook lunch on motorway aires.

 

[mitzimad]

The same with French lorry drivers in HGV parks. Proper little table with cloth, those small squat glasses and wine (!) proper food etc etc etc.
Unfortunately, to our minds, they do a lot of weeing in car parks too!

saturday night on motorway aires is party night for the hgv drivers as they cant run on sunday so its tables and food out gallon bottles of wine

 

[Tea Bag]

I hope they had a tablecloth, a big no, no in France not to have one on your picnic table.

Hi.
Yes....... Especially on the ones provided at/on the Aire.......... . night time....feasts ?
Tea Bag

 

[Feltwell]

Hey, each to their own, it just looked bizarre! Not sure they were Travellers, but who knows.

Wagon drivers cooking up outside next to their truck at a motorway aire I perfectly understand, they don’t have much choice.
Mind you wagon drivers no more than 30 feet away were openly peeing on the verge, despite a perfectly good loo block with urinal being close by .

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[Wildbill]

Could this be a bit to posh

 

[Feltwell]

It’s certainly “outposhing” us, we don’t even use a tablecloth at home!

 

[Grasmere9]

Don't sound like normal Motorhomers to me, I think chaser hit the nail on the head.

I hope they had a tablecloth, a big no, no in France not to have one on your picnic table.

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[Littlewheels]

Yes,and shatting on the verges l cannot understand it, l have a Dog and have avoid it when giving breaks on journeys.

 

[InvictaMoto]

It’s certainly “outposhing” us, we don’t even use a tablecloth at home!

We don't even use a table at home....

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