This is our first time driving a motorhome.
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The approach to Culzean Castle is fine.
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B roads should be fairly easy driving, width is more important than length. Where we are at the moment was a butt clenching drive down a single track road by comparison a B road is easy. We are 7.5m long & 2.21m wide.
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Take a look and if unsure don't use the road but generally B roads are fine. C and unclassified roads can be a matter of "right of size" where the smaller vehicle reverses to a passing place.
If the road is wide enough for a bus / lorry / tractor it's wide enough for you - but don't follow the tractor into a field!!
If the road is wide enough for a bus / lorry / tractor it's wide enough for you - but don't follow the tractor into a field!!
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125BEER
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Beat me to itLook on Google Streetview:
Looks like it's got a centreline, so you'll be fine.
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We find that our Arto, which is 2.3m wide and 3m high and has a huge windscreen, is a distinct advantage as it looks like a 16-seater coach and even 'white van man' tends to pull-in or reverse to accommodate us - always appreciated and thanked of course - unless he doesn't.
As said above length at 7m is not a problem.
Geoff
As said above length at 7m is not a problem.
Geoff
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I live in on a B road - one of the busiest in the uk - and they bring down luxury gym palaces down here . Just check with google maps and street view
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More importantly do you feel confident driving a motorhome. If you have no problems driving it and your spatial awareness in the new van even a roads in Scotland can be narrow and very narrow places.
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And probably don't worry too much about scratching their employers vehicles by brushing past tress and bushes......
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Don’t know what site you are going to but we were at the maidens, place name not camp sit name last year, you pass Cullen to get there, saw a few campsites en route.
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You should enjoy Culzean, its a beautiful castle.
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I see you have a van conversion so you will be sitting higher than most cars
This gives you an advantage cos you will see them before they see you
Also get used to looking ahead as far as the terrain will allow, sometimes on a twisty road you can see about 1/4 mile ahead which can give you a bit of an early warning of something coming towards you
Doesn't stop anyone from flying round a bend at you though
This gives you an advantage cos you will see them before they see you
Also get used to looking ahead as far as the terrain will allow, sometimes on a twisty road you can see about 1/4 mile ahead which can give you a bit of an early warning of something coming towards you
Doesn't stop anyone from flying round a bend at you though
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Welcome. Ours is 6.6m and we've never had a problem on a b road or even a c road although these can be narrower. You just need the practice to get your confidence up and you'll be fine.
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Lots of people say that. My stock answer is yes but those are made of stronger stuff than motorhomes made of ticky tacky, and, most importantly the driver does not own it so doesn't worry about a few dents.
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And I can assure you that all of that would be nowhere near as bad as what my wife would subject me to if I so much as scratched our motorhome.
A sense of humour is often needed when reading posts in Motorhome FUN, including this one.
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And I can assure you that all of that would be nowhere near as bad as what my wife would subject me to if I so much as scratched our motorhome.
A sense of humour is often needed when reading posts in Motorhome FUN, including this one.
This response is written with a sense of humour, or as much as I can muster up in a week when Basia has left me to go as a 'donkey' courier to deliver 'unobtainable' goods(about 30kg - had to take a friend who only needed 10kg allowance) to her Sister in Turkey. [Seemed to get through again with the pieces of pig without detection]
Back to the subject of HIS/HER possessions, particularly vehicles, responsibilities and payments.
Basia nd I have have this agreement
I bought the MH before we were together; it is financially all my responsibility - but she has a large say in where we go and what we do. I also paid for the odd ding.
I bought the car(only£2,000 - don't want her to think I am rich) Running costs down to her. There was a ding( her fault police said) and I cannot remember if we shared it or she paid.
Of course this is all paid for from the rent of the London house, which remains mine till I snuff it, then she gets most of it.
We do live rent free in her old Parents-in Law's house.
How does that compare with other contributors' 'sharing', if any?
Remember my opening line.
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if it’s all black in front it’ll be ok. It’s when the grass starts to appear in the middle of the road that gets the arse twitching.
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Greetings peeps welcome from Bexley
Take your time that’s what motorhoming is all about. You will be ok.
Take your time that’s what motorhoming is all about. You will be ok.
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Went up one of those last week in Wales. Hedge touching the mirrors both sides, grass down the middle
. You'll soon get the hang of it.
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My driving instructor, many years ago, told me to "read the hedgerows". I think what he meant was, look into the distance and you should be able to see vehicle rooftops coming towards you and you can adjust your speed or pull over in advance of them hurtling around the bend on the wrong side of the road. This has worked for me on many of NZ's single lane mountain/hill roads, especially when logging trucks and utes towing boats are the most likely thing you're going to meet and they don't stop for anybody.
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