Letter of complaint to Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands re quite frankly OUTRAGEOUS price of their tents.

[Slubberdegullion]

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Dear Mr Rutte,

Hi.

I am writing to complain about the price of the tents made in your country.

Now for example look at this darling little <a class="break-all" href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=www.esvocampingshop.com/en/tenten-en/lichtgewicht-katoenen-tenten-leichtgewicht-baumwolle-zelte-en/eskimo-tent-en.html&sa=X&ei=kxrfT5zWIMm_8wOJo_yXCw&ved=0CGkQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Desvo%2Beskimo%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26tbo%3Dd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ESVO Eskimo. How lovely is that, and so light, 3875 g, amazing! And yet made of canvas. Genius. But at ?415,20 they are having a laugh.

If you could sort something out on this front that would be awesome. Have a word with the total crazers at De Waard too while your at it.

Lots of love,

Yours sincerely etc

PS Great Hair.

Lovely! Idylictastic

mm bet it means side panels
[not just a pretty face]

Id say side panels too. two of them

Gorgeous Nettle, just gorgeous. You will have to let us know when you are up and running. whole thing looks fab.

ooh shit.

school run.......

knew there was something I should be doing about now.....

Oh God this thread is very VERY bad. Nettle you are very very bad.
trying to find one with the super vario.

fuck, yes. children argh

Bad mothers

Well, I got away with it because there was a 'free book help yourself' thing going on in the playground so no one noticed me slinking in 10 mins late....

Nettle, sorry, what happened to your Herring Gull? Did someone hurt her? Bastards.

Re getting a courier. Sorry, poss daft q but have never done this before, do you just google Netherlands to British couriers, or DHL or what?

what is the naked Dutch man doing ?

Praying? Peering at a superior Dutch zipper? Weeping at the thought of selling his beloved Albatros?

Hmmm. I was just pondering a change of tactic and possibly lobbying the Secretary of State for Defence to declare war on the Netherlands over their aggressive tent pricing practices, and I was researching the Marketplaats page for signs of tent price insurgency, and you know, if you look at all the little photos of tents, some have quite scruffy collections of stuff in the tent frintage, and one even has a scruffy child

Nettletea - is your site open? For touring tents? It looks fantastic.

No way a scruffy kid?

no wait. Do you mean like a scruffy British kid (crocs, pak a mac, filthy muddy backside?) or a Boden-cum-Joules scruffy kid (fly away hair on a swing, freckles, jam jar with tad pole?)

They all seem to have trailers lurking ominously in the background

blue fleece, drinking water out of a plastic bottle!

ah. tis but a young elfling rehydrating before he plays upon his wooden flute or does a spot of fletching.

Caerl, yy. No way round it, they need a trailer OR you it goes in the boot with nothing else, bar maybe a couple of teeny tiny Monarch butterfly chairs.

Oh my god. That naked Dutch man. Look at the angle of his neck! HE IS DEAD! Dead, I'm telling you.

Slubber, come on. Do you really want to buy a tent that housed a major crime scene? Fag butts and cat sick wouldn't be the half of it. What about dismembered fingers and bloody splashes halfway up the canvas?

look slubber perfect camping chair!

'twee zijluifels' That means something like awnings, but more of a over-hang from the tent type thing- According to DH we don't have a direct translation.

yes. the sorry tale of the Herring gull included a rip in the side of the tent and a strategically placed branch which, according to the police, didnt look as if it had fallen from any species nearby.
Could be jumping to conclusions. Could be that the police have suspicious minds and not alot of forestry experience. Could just be a strange co-incidence, given one planning objector found trespassing at 9pm one night, and that this discovery was made the night before the planning committee meeting (ooh officer, see how DANGEROUS camping in woodland is.......)
But, at the end of the day, I guess it COULD have been a fallen branch.... (YES A FALLEN BRANCH WHICH LAY ON THE GROUND FOR 9 MONTHS GATHERING DAMP AND LICHEN AND THEN JUMPED UP AND IMPALED ITSELF THROUGH MY BEAUTIFUL TENT..... AAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH)
sorry.
its still too raw...

And sorry. we cant take touring tents. computer says no. but we have plans afoot for next year on some different property close by.

that camping chair looks like an Amsterdam sex toy

you can find the info for sizes/weights of the bagged up tent on many sites. and then drop it into a quote comparrison sdite for holland to uk. Its usually DHL who takes it, but there are companies who are cheaper than their direct prices, but still use them.

The trailer is a deal breaker for me

NettleTea, really sorry to hear about your tribulations, it sounds awful. And incredibly frustrating.
Fingers crossed for opening up the new patch of ground next year.