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Greetings,

Last year there was a "toutes direction" sign in a town in France that I followed around a bend and into a cul de sac(see how I slip into the french venacular) with a stone trough full of flowers blocking the road.

Had to get SWMBO out to stand in the main road while I reversed 'blind' back into the main road.

Zoot alors!!!

Do I understand that elephant is a fellow female tugger?  What a predicament, similar to me getting out of our road!  Always a struggle, with OT walking up ahead of me, putting other peoples wing mirrors in!

You deserve a medal, fingers crossed we hav'nt come across that situation yet at the end of the day it's something to laugh at when you get home we had a few stories we had to laugh at coz otherwise we would cry LOL.

The second time we took the caravan out was down to Great Yarmouth.  As we kept getting lost on the way down we bought a Tom Tom.

On the way back we missed a turn and the Tom Tom was saying to turn around. A few miles down the road it said take the next right, i did tell the OH that he shouldnt listen as it looked like a dirt track, but no he wouldnt have it, saying that the sat nav knew best.  Ended up on a single lane dirt track, with a farm at the end, but we didnt get that far as it was too narrow.  He wasnt very good at reversing then, but did try LOL.

Then the postie pulled up, as there was a big house with double gates, which the gates had been left open.  I asked him if there was a way out at the bottom of the road, no there wasnt.

Anyway, in the end we had to unhitch the caravan, push it into the grounds of this big house, then try to turn round the car, and then hitch back up again.

Though still to this day OH says the sat nav is right!!!  Yep it might be but its not towing a caravan LOL

Well when summat like this happened to us, it wasn't in a nice liccle country place, or iccle village where there were only half a dozen houses oh noooo......it was slap bang in the middle of bl**dy London on a busy Sunday evening!

Coming back from a week staying at the Crystal Palace CC site where we'd been for a whole weeks diving lark and didn't want to stay in their rather noisy hostel, (affecionately known as 'the pencil' owing to it's shape and colour). Now we'd done this trip a couple of times in the past years but this particular Sunday, they had a diversion in place and took us down roads we were unfamiliar with so imagine our horror as we passed one of those dreaded signs telling you that there was...dun durun dunnnnnnn.....a width restriction ahead! At this point I'm saying to hubby that the width restriction said it was 7' 1"...he carried on slowly, (not that we could do much else stuck in the midst of a h-u-g-e tailback of other vehicles infront and behind of us), asking me how wide our van was.......7' 2" was my reply! Woops!

Now as luck would have it, there was, (just before the width restriction), one liccle side turning which we were just past as this all dawned on us so we had no option but to try and reverse the whole outfit back into this to turn right again and try and find an alternative way out of this mess. Oooohhh you can imagine the noise of the hooters coming at us coming from all angles, (not the cars immediately behind us who could see our predicament, but ones further back who were unaware of our plight). Now hubby's very good at reversing most of the time but BOY was the pressure on. As this seemed to be taking forever.....the kids and I were sort of slinking down in our seats trying to hide our embarrassment until in the end, there was no choice but to unhitch the darned thing coz this turning just wasn't wide enough with the strange angle we were having to try and manouvre from and with cars right up our jaxxy.

Ohhhh the shame......and by the time we'd got back over to the other side of the road to make our way back you should have seen the queue of traffic we'd caused Mortified we were, but it just goes to show how in the centre of London they didn't think to add a note that the temporary diversions were not suitable for vehicles, (or trailers), over 7' 1"! Now you wouldn't get that happen in the tourist hot spots would ya? Always considerate to their touring visitors there

I think you did remarkably well elephant but I bet I can guarantee one thing....I bet you found yourself breathing in as you struggled past those cars? It's just something we all do naturally as if that's gonna make our outfit any thinner

Hi everyone,

We were in France for our holiday this year and got lost looking for a campsite.  We turned into a narrow road which took us into a village square which led into an even narrower road out of the square!  There were parked cars all over and to finish off there were two policeman sitting in their car watching!  We had to pull over to let the traffic pass and then quickly do a u-turn (just made it) and drive back the way we came, down the narrow road, mounting the kerb as we went.

I was stressed to bits!!  The french did not seem that bothered and no one honked their horn etc.  Probably thought 'mad english?'  Police were'nt bothered either.  But what a start to the holiday.