Walked between caravans

[Tevion28]

Hi currently staying on in my friends holiday home and me and dp wanted to walk down to the river and took a quick route between 2 caravans and a lady came out and shouted very aggressivly do not walk between the caravans and slammed her door shut so was we in the wrong.

Even if you shouldn't walk between caravans, there is no excuse for shouting at a woman with her child. I'm sure the peace and quiet and privacy of the site would be more impacted by someone bawling like an anti social lout near other the vans than it would by someone simply passing by.

perhaps that's why I avoid Hoeseasons like the plague because no one has any basic manners! Walking next to someones caravan off of the path is inconsiderate.

I also had no idea it was off limits. I guess cos in a caravan site that I've been to there are no clear markings or any way at all of knowing certain parts belong to certain caravans. I didn't even know there were "gardens" to them.

Every day is a school day

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Are they going to actually hear footsteps or SHOCK HORROR people talking? Like I do, every single day because I live in a terrace that fronts on to the pavement? In a small quiet market town in which I do not in fact own the fucking road?

Is it jealousy, then - just because you don't have any private space between your door and the public pavement? We're not talking about the road/public access part - of course they know they don't own those parts.

Everybody knows that caravans are not the best insulated for sound, but there's a difference between hearing people from a little distance away and walking right outside your window when they have absolutely no need to and where they are walking may actually be clearly identified on your lease/contract/plans as part of your own pitch.

Even if it is technically not marked as part of the pitch, by way of analogy, large men can freely walk right behind women, keeping the same pace, on a dark night - because 'you don't own the pavement, love' - but the decent ones wouldn't dream of doing it.

Last paragraph; don’t you fucking dare use that as an analogy for walking across a caravan pitch! What the hell is wrong with you?!

Last paragraph; don’t you fucking dare use that as an analogy for walking across a caravan pitch! What the hell is wrong with you?!

RTFT, then you might understand a little bit better.

And even if we hadn't already addressed the (obvious, no?) fact that, IF there is a determined aggressor around who IS intent on attacking somebody, the structure of a standard static caravan isn't really going to offer you guaranteed protection from harm (because, you know, some of them even break into actual brick-built houses to get at their victims), it's not a competition - saying that this form of privacy-denying, potentially-intrusive, space-invading behaviour affecting somebody who doesn't know if you represent a threat to them isn't perceived as being as serious as that one, ergo the former must be totally fine.

Obviously from the pov of the writer.

Decent Intelligent people don't shout at others on such a basic issue.

I don't really know about statics, but with a tourer, you rent the whole pitch, so it would be kind of obnoxious to walk over someone else's pitch.

Most campsites I've been on have a 'campers etiquette' leaflet/webpage to avoid such faux pas. From my own experience this summer, lots of people who wouldn't normally camp (tent/caravan/motor home) have been doing it, so probably lots of people making the same etiquette mistakes.

On the caravan site I visit every year there is only one road circling the site with no footpaths. The only way to reach individual caravans is to walk between them. Several owners have built balconies around two sides (without blocking an area between vans off) this gives them a small area to themselves. Everyone accepts that and no-one gets arsey about people passing between vans. In particular the last row on the site backs onto the public coastal footpath which is a price they pay for looking out over the sea.

This whole post is making me spit out my G&T. It’s so provincial….

@Holly60

This whole post is making me spit out my G&T. It’s so provincial….

Haha! Says someone spitting their drink out!

@SunShinesBrightly ok I’ll give you that accidentally ejecting some of my aperitif in mirth is not the height of sophistication. However, a whole thread on the etiquette of caravanning is quite clearly a whole new level of provincial small- mindedness. Quite frankly I’d been embarrassed to admit to being party to that particular etiquette. I’m almost certain you won’t find it in Debrett’s 😂

[quote Holly60]@SunShinesBrightly ok I’ll give you that accidentally ejecting some of my aperitif in mirth is not the height of sophistication. However, a whole thread on the etiquette of caravanning is quite clearly a whole new level of provincial small- mindedness. Quite frankly I’d been embarrassed to admit to being party to that particular etiquette. I’m almost certain you won’t find it in Debrett’s 😂[/quote]
I'd rather be provincial than classless.

If you don't know "the rules" she should have politely explained them. Its the woman who yelled at you who is in the wrong. Touchy bovine.

@Kolo I’m so pleased I’m neither classless nor provincial, darling.

This whole post is making me spit out my G&T. It’s so provincial….

Calling thing provincial is sooo petit bourgeois.

@donquixotedelamancha

This whole post is making me spit out my G&T. It’s so provincial….

Calling thing provincial is sooo petit bourgeois.

Oh my goodness I am sooo petit bourgeois 😂😂 I’m sure if I were anything else I wouldn’t have been sipping my G&T on the terrace reading mumsnet.

Thanks to this thread, One is now so well educated on the subtle protocols pertaining to Static Caravans, that One could confidently host a Royal Visit to a static caravan park.😂

Well because of me hundreds of people across the UK will be thinking first
before they walk between 2 caravans

@Tevion28

Well because of me hundreds of people across the UK will be thinking first before they walk between 2 caravans

Absolutely 👍🏻 And also the word “provincial” 🤔😂

So because of this thread I checked this today! Yes, we own the whole pitch so the grassy area in between the caravans does belong to us! So you would be walking through someone's private garden by walking between our static caravans!

@Explosivefarts

If she was aggressive to me I would walk there again and again to wind her up. Manners cost nothing . All she had to say was excuse me please don’t walk between caravans and use rather path. You didn’t know it was her “garden” . Sounds like caravans aren’t for her.

(or the OP for caravans)