extreme motorhomes

matthew and i went out for sunday lunch last week, after failing to secure a lunch in st columb minor (meals from 12-3 but they were out of food by 2!) we drove on round the coast to st merryn where we had a cavery.

after the meal we went to constantine and went down to mother ivey's bay the site of some of matthew's childhood holidays, on our way back to padstow we got stuck behind this monster of a camper van. it did seem a little extreme for the cornish lanes that we were traversing, especially as we had to stop every few hundred yards to allow cars coming the other way to get past. this meant that we spent a lot of time looking at the hydraulic bike rack on the back! it was austrian registered, but it does beg the question of what foriegners make of our road system that someone was prepared to drive that all the way from austria for a holiday in england?

it reminded me of the large motorhomes i saw at the royal cornwall show which could be yours for a mere £260,000 and an hgv licence. trouble is you definately wouldn't be able to take one of those down the small lanes, which means your holiday would be spent at motorway service stations.

anyway not long now until our weeks holiday in the yorkshire dales, so looking forward to it!