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Firstly let me set the picture before you go imagining some packed out horrible sea side aire on the med. On a first class recomendation from mhf we arrived early yesterday on the lovely little aire at Castenet in southern Aveyron. It's the perfect aire. Just 4 places, well tendered lawns, each pitch with it's own picnic bench, tap and ehu. The village is small, picturesque and so quiet. Three pitches are close together but staggered and one is further away on it's own. Being Jammy and getting here early we got the one on it's own.
It's been so peaceful here the in aveyron the last couple of weeks I assumed this spot would follow suite.
A French van arrives and occupies the first of the three spots together. We say hello and it's friendly. They are soon followed by two Belgian vans (not together)
ithats it. The place us full and we go out for a few ours on the bike.
On our return we sit out, it's lovely. Others are dong the same. Around 9pm as we go inside a car pulls up and a couple walk down to the Belgian van in the middle of the three and are greeted by the owners. Clearly they are friends that are visiting. Now at first the chitter chatter outside doesn't bother me. We are. A good distance away and we planned to stay up late anyway but I start to feel concern for the poor French couple who are right next to them. I also assume as with all aires by 1030 or 1100 at the latest it will go very quiet.
To make it worse the poor French bloke has fiddled with his sat dish for hours trying to get a signal but gives up and we assume goes to bed.
The noise increases and by 11pm I start to think how rude. We are not sure if the second Belgian van has joined them but assume so as it's really quite unacceptable now. They must be right under the french couples window.
At around 12pm there is a loud banging and a shout which I assume is the French guy lfinally loosing patience. It goes quiet for a while then like teenagers after 5 minutes it starts again. We turn In and read till about 1am and it's starting to bug me now. Then they spill out into the middle of the aire shouting goodbyes and banging doors!
This is just not on and without thinking I open the window blind so they can see me and give them both barrels with some choice words that I'm not really proud of. Not so much for us but for the poor sods right next door to them.
The couple who arrived by car scurry off and quickly drive away and the other belgians retire quickly to the van and that's it. All over.
Well not quite. I'm awoken this morning at 7am by the sound of the French van opening lockers and generally making a royal racket outside which he has been doing for nearly an hour now. Normally I would be annoyed but good on him!
As I write this it's gone quiet again.
I just don't get it. How could people be so inconsiderate? I hate to generalise but on this trip his is not the first time we have come across noisy Belgians.
What do you think?will let you know if world war three breaks out!
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Sounds like the French guy is getting his revenge by disturbing the Belgians early in the morning after the late night.
I have found that the majority of m/homers are reasonable and thoughtful on the aires-you have got to be when you are crammed in like sardines,no 20 foot rule I'm afraid
One of the most thoughtless things I have seen was a Frenchman on a very popular aire with his awning wound out with chairs and table underneath.New arrivals were having to turn round and go elsewhere.
I have not noticed any nationalities that are worse than others-the only time I have seen any noisy,yobbish behaviour was by fellow Brits.
On the whole though the majority of m/homers are decent and helpful I think.
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yes I hate to generalise and perhaps it's just been coincidence. I agree with you. We as Brits can be a bit noisy although I can't comment on this trip as in three months we haven't seen more than a handful.
Looks like French couple are off. Can't say I blame them.
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I think surely you must have better things to do then relive every scenario in detail on here, Barry
In life we come across rowdy, rude, inconsiderate people on aires, housing estates, hotels, in the street etc. Such is life. Move on and put it behind you and don't give it a second thought, let alone document it .
Sounds to me as thought you quite enjoyed the free entertainment though
Yep, there are times when behaviour like this can cause more than mild irritation.
My 'bitch' neighbour had a party till 3am. when all the good byes and car doors were very loud. Apart from waking the other neighbours I caught a couple of comments about 'Les Englais'.
So at 7.15 next morning I cut up a pile of oak logs with a chain saw out front of my barn.
Been quiet since.
Ray.
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hi, just back from a month 99% aires, only came across a couple of minor incidents, at Collonges 2 very large german vans parked together with their huge trailers taking up the 2 spaces between them, loads of people trying to get on but had to turn away.
At la boulou, found the last space only to find the french van next to it, awning out, had all their chairs and tables in it and sat eating, remarkable how quickly they got everything out of the way when I started reversing in.
We have experienced that sort of thing a couple of times too Barry. I find it hard to sleep if there is a lot of noise. I console myself with the thought that it's very rare. I think that there are bad mannered people from every country but luckily they are a small minority, Alan.
Sitting here in bed, it's easy to say "what's all the fuss about? It's only a bit of noise!" but I know how easy it is to become annoyed at the inconsiderate behaviour of others.
We had an episode with a generator at St. Paul les Dax, where there was a heated exchange between a Belgian couple (with a generator) and a French man, who thought that it was spoiling the beautiful countryside feel of the aire.
As others have said, it's rare for this to happen, and the overwhelming majority of aire users have been friendly and considerate.
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