So French women don't get fat because....

[chipmonkey]

They cook just two tomatoes for a family of four for lunch. (warning: tent porn)
raclet

ha hahahaha

It's the Outwell Family but they've jumped ship and gone to France.

mais j'ai vue avec mon petit oeil un jar de nutella pour le petit dejuner
[gcse french]

Those raclets are rather lush though.

Why was madam raclet not assisting monseur avec le pitching?

Pisses me right off when the women in these videos are pissing about with magazines and cushions and not cracking on with les pegs.

She didn't want to muddy her very practical white leggings [camping must-have]

lol at itinerant model

what is she doing with those tomoatos though
boiling them? frying them?

nice tent btw

I can't see any sophisticated French women on their hands and knees scrubbing cow pats off a groundsheet with a tea towel and a nail brush. That's how my calories get burned.

So they have to have a smaller energy intake on the half a tomato diet? aha now the secret is out.

And a dessert of 20 gitanes and black coffee?

Raclette is swiss and they also only eat - 1 slice of cheese over two boiled potatoes and a gherkin and pickle. That is an official Swiss portion of raclette.

Swiss women are the 3rd thinnest in the western world.....yet again consuming a gajillion cigarettes.

Surely the cigarette/tent/fire ration must be higher?

Wish I could get away with heating up the grill and then thumbing glossy manicured nail over Grazia whilst directing my husband.

maggots, yes quite. If I even tried to just sit about on my arse with my sunnies on while dh was trying to pitch the bugger, well there would be words had.

am so glad to hear someone else uses the end of days minging teatowel for ground sheet cleaning, although with us it's always worm casts.

glad I am not the only one.

Apparently unpacking the whole car, blowing up three air beds, assembling the camping kitchen, wardrobe, two tables, marching off to fill the water carrier, setting up the stove and BBQ isn't the hard work, as I always get reminded of through gritted teeth.

Not that I am allowed to adjust one guide rope.

On our last trip to Brugge we did see a lot of German wives shouting out directions from the banquette of their camper van through the window at their poor husbands trying to winch the wheels onto stays in the pouring rain and set up the awning single handedly.

These mainland European women.....they know a thing or two......

hahahaha.

Eagled-eyed Slubber - I noticed the Nutella for breakfast too.

My experience of camping is Mum and Dad shouting at each other for putting the tent up wrong while the DC sabotage steal tent pegs.

mdmelindt, my ds made a kind of mini Stonehenge with the tent pegs last year and wouldn't let anyone touch them.

I'm glad the pleasant music drowned out the ambient noise of 'merde, ou est le mallet?' and 'removez ton bicyclette from the fucking tent TIENS!'

And I thought raclet was going to be the thing she cooked the tomatoes on... Did anyone see the bikes on the way to the campsite?!!!

oh you amateurs

i bloody wished...most times we've gone camping it's been a race to get the bloody thing put up before either a) it pisses down or b) we fall out and one of us plays 'chicken' by grabbing the car keys and threatening to go home

alone

It is Milli, a raclette/party grill combo thingy - you heat up the plate for tomato, shrimp, mushrooms etc, then under the grill there are little drawers where you put your cheese until it melts, then you pour the melty cheese over veg potatoes etc.

We tried tomatoes and the sodding things stuck and burnt to out brand new grill.

So I would love to see the next shot of her chipping burnt tomato off the blackened grill with only cold water and a travel bottle of fairy liquid, whilst the greasy water splashes over her white Capris!

Camping has made me evil......

Milli, I noticed that too! Where was the nice raclet bike carrier on top of the trailer? And advertising opportunity lost!

But not all French women are thin - we have just come back from skiing in a small and very French resort, and there were LOADS of porkers

But we must differentiate between the ski-ing French and the camping French, Tilly.

Well, we do both

But have you ever camped AND ski-ed at the same time?

Pourquoi does Monsieur Raclet sit on 'is cul while Madame Raclet does all le cooking? I suppose that is the French for you. And Monsieur has done all le travail manly, putting up the tent.

Les petits Raclets seem remarkably at ease in each other's company and happy to go off cycling together. Is there never any :

"Putain, Emilie pulled my hair!"

"Merde, Georges, you little tell-tale espece de con!!"

"Waaaah c'est PAS JUSTE!"

Yes, and les petits Raclets also shared a bed happily without squabbling about who had the biggest half of it! M et Mme Raclet are clearly exemplary parents!

why si sara Greene now frencgh?

the french all HOG on chocolate spread crap dont t hey?

Yes, it's the Nutella Diet. Works wonders.

Yes they dip their Gauloise and Gitanes in them.