Now that's what I call a tight squeeze (1 Viewer)

[Poutie57]

We are currently staying on the camping Eden site at Peñíscola which if anyone has been here knows is quite tight, so yesterday a 9metre Concorde liner tries to round the corner at the end of the site. The result was an hour half later still stuck with about 20 helpful fellow campers trying to give him instructions

 

[simsy56]

I can imagine 20 helpful campers all waving their arms, no wonder he is still there!

Craig

 

[Poutie57]

He eventually got clear after some branches were cut down but had a nasty gash on the side of the van where he scraped against the bike rack of another van

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[chaser]

This has just got to beg the question, why would he want to get in there with that?

 

[funflair]

Oops, thats the trouble with a lot of these older campsites that were originally set up for car and caravan, and motorhomes keep getting bigger.

Martin

 

[Poutie57]

Think he's planning to stay for the season he's got a massive trailer as well

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[My Dog Likes Fishing]

Hope the trees stop growing while he’s there for the season then.

 

[Stretto Boy]

Think he's planning to stay for the season he's got a massive trailer as well

Or perhaps for life?

 

[Figaro]

Why was he allowed on the site in the first place ?
Shouldn't the warden have told him to go park somewhere more suitable

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[2657]

Why was he allowed on the site in the first place ?
Shouldn't the warden have told him to go park somewhere more suitable

This is Spain........warden?

 

[BwB]

He eventually got clear after some branches were cut down but had a nasty gash on the side of the van where he scraped against the bike rack of another van View attachment 193304

It wasn't @Steely Daniel 's bike rack he scraped against, was it? Could be answering two birds with one stone here! https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/fiamma-bike-rack-failure.162766/

I know there's a problem with times and locations but this is the sort of situation (minus the 20 helpful campers looking on )

 

[DavidG58]

We are not as big as him but we will would have walked out to Look first , I certainly would never have got so committed to the right turn without checking

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[Poutie57]

He was out the night before measuring the pitch, evidently most large motorhome on Eden park on the perimeter pitch's, anyway it supplied abit of excitement for the morning

 

[namwaldog]

We were on El Eden this time last year and they were in the process of pollarding the trees. Looks like they are a bit late this year.
Quite funny watching some of the other campers armed with brushes etc trying to keep the branches from falling on their vans and awnings while the Spanish arborists were up their ladders happily chatting and smoking at the same time whilst using their air powered secateurs to lop the branches.

I say it was funny watching but that was from the security of a pitch that already had been done!! Dont know how I would have felt if they were working round ours?

 

[Minxy]

That picture of everyone in pitches like sardines is one of the reasons why I won't use campsites!!!!! My idea of absolute hell!!!!

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[LesW]

Was he looking for the bus stop?

 

[LesW]

That picture of everyone in pitches like sardines is one of the reasons why I won't use campsites!!!!! My idea of absolute hell!!!!

I've seen aires looking as bad...

 

[carolyn]

Good in restaurant on site is really good

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[Poutie57]

That picture of everyone in pitches like sardines is one of the reasons why I won't use campsites!!!!! My idea of absolute hell!!!!

Agree with you but sometimes it's nice to pitch up for a week and enjoy some camaraderie with our fellow europeans

 

[Minxy]

I've seen aires looking as bad...

True but if you're only staying for a night stop it's not such an issue, but to stay on a campsite for months like that ..... nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[tacr2man]

Its surprising how quickly others come out an have a look when they think there might be some entertainment . I went into a site in Germany (Stellplatze Schaffer-mobil Dresden Kötzschenbroder Str. 125, 01139 ) you can see layout on GMap ,its fully automated so no wardens , I walked in first and saw a possible pitch right down the bottom that I could access , there were only two others vacant . It required a left turn with a reverse into pitch with a couple of shunts . I then drove in you could see a lot of attention and then the migration to watch what they obviously thought wasn't possible , I wasn't sorry to disappoint them . I had to go for scond one in as the first required too much of a swing on front . Later in the day a Morello liner came in luckily he was a few feet shorter so was able to get in the first pitch . He also had a bit of an audience , I think its the same thing that cause people to slow to look at a motorway crash !

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[simsy56]

That picture of everyone in pitches like sardines is one of the reasons why I won't use campsites!!!!! My idea of absolute hell!!!!

I couldn't agree more!

Craig

 

[LesW]

Yes I agree, that would drive me mad.. We found some lovely aires in France recently too.

 

[frogijock]

Nice site, butt you need the Bendy Bus type of van to get onto some pitches

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