about campsite? i think iam but feel like crying

[heraldgerald]

I know I need to get a grip, so please be kind! We have driven to northern Italy and are camping in a deserted campsite. I think it's expensive at 40 euros a night, but that's another aibu. A family have arrived with their baby and have camped directly facing our tent with their entrance facing ours. I just don't understand why they wouldn't want privacy too which they could easily have. I'm pregnant which might be fuelling this. O feel like crying and leaving. I'm being an idiot aren't I.

There might be a bit of a subconscious magnetic draw thing going on maybe. My FIL managed to crash into the only other car in a car park once.

I'm very sorry to you too MollyMaDurga.

I came over as really aggressive. But 'Brit' makes my hackles rise. Not your fault and I apologise.

Blame my mixed English/Scots Prod and Irish Catholic extraction. But my parents made it work even if their families and friends didn't like it.

So, you move on to another site, what if someone else sites their tent near you there, will you move on again ?

It's like when you are looking at clothes in an empty shop and the only other customer comes up right next to you and starts pushing you out the way.

When I was a kid my parents used to take me and my brother camping abroad. We had pitched up on a lovely campsite in what was Yugoslavia and not long after another tent pitched up, not too close to us. I think they were German.

A few hours later another tent pitched up opposite the German tent (these new ones were French), and they had pitched entrance to entrance, but so close that if they both left their tents at the same time they would bump into each other. The gap between the 2 tents much have been mere millimeters.

Anyway the 2 tent owners had a massive row about it - in English! We had front row seats and it was the best entertainment we had all week.

All the campsites I've ever been to have regs about pitching distances, usually three metres apart and preferably six, I'd go to the office and complain if anyone pitched up right to our entrance if they got shitty about being asked not to.
Fire regs etc.

This is from the last place we went.
Pitches

Please note that due to fire regulations you must pitch at least three, preferably six, metres away from anyone else. You will be asked to repitch if this rule is not adhered to. You will find fire extinguishers in prominent places around the site, please make yourself aware of where these are located. One windbreak is permitted per pitch, with a maximum of six poles. Find out about our types of pitches.

does anyone else get mistaken for being Dutch? Everywhere we go in Europe we get either asked if we are Dutch or spoken to in Dutch. I have no idea what it is about us that makes us look more Dutch than English.

Are you very tall Kitten?

no I'm a very middling size! So is dh. dh does have rather mad professor hair, but I dont think that's a dutch characteristic?

DH and I went camping in north wales. Some verrrry loud drunken scouse women pitched so close that we could hear them pissing right outside our tent. Yes we could actually hear the hissing pissing noise. As if it was on our canvas. Gross. We decamped at 7am the next morning before they woke up!

OP I'd be fuming too!

Oh yuk!!

OMG, that reminds me...once when we were camping as kids, we were all in the tent and saw a silhouette of a dog and bloke walking by, heard a loud hissing, turned and saw the wet patch on the back corner of our tent - dad leapt out and accosted the dog walker for letting his dog piss on our tent, who despite the wet patch still steaming and him being the only person in sight with a dog, denied it was his dog that did it!