Dont always trust your sat nav

[Billieblue]

There's that underpass in Rouen. It's got plastic fingers hanging down on the approach, if you can get under them without touch you're ok.
Just after that a sign says height limit 2.6 metres which is quite interesting as my moho is 2.9metres high. BUT I DID GET UNDER THE PLASTIC THINGIES OK, DIDN'T I!?
Frenchie in car beside us looks up and smirks. I drive very, but very, slowly forward, the French guy slows with me. I slide underneath the tunnel, Status aerial scrapes and then we're through! Pierre gives us the thumbs up.
I was so convinced we had hit the tunnel roof that at the first opportunity I opened the Heki and climbed up for a look. No damage, not a scratch even on the aerial.
Since then Rouen is avoided as if it has The Plague.
Apart from that little jolly I did find myself on a French cycle track and had a suicidal trip up a narrow hairpinned hill off the Gorge du Tarn road. Even the dog crawled under the table for that one!

That'll be where I took my roof off! Still have nightmares about tunnels!

 

[teejay]

Hmm....... through a farmers field of which there are thousands in the UK. :Tears_of_Joy_Emoji:

 

[jeffmossy]

That'll be where I took my roof off! Still have nightmares about tunnels!

Mnnn That is strange , there is a lady on W/C forum called Carol did the same thing :Sunglasses_Emoji::Sunglasses_Emoji::Tongue_Out_Emoji_wi

 

[Billieblue]

Mnnn That is strange , there is a lady on W/C forum called Carol did the same thing :Sunglasses_Emoji::Sunglasses_Emoji::Tongue_Out_Emoji_wi

Wow, what a coincidence! :Smiling_Emoji_with_

 

[Spacerunner]

That'll be where I took my roof off! Still have nightmares about tunnels!

To this day I've no idea why I drove on through that tunnel. Ok, I know th road was very busy and would have caused traffic chaos and all the French drivers would give me grief but the alternative as you found out would have been much, much worse.

 

[barryd]

Funniest thing I remember (although at the time it was scary) was crossing a narrow bridge in central France (Cant remember where). We got to this single track bridge which was quite long but I think about 2.4 metres wide. The alternative was a 12 mile detour. I reckoned there was an inch or two either side so got Mrs D to go walk in front and make sure we would fit. Trouble was it was on Traffic lights and when it went green I started to edge onto the bridge. Of course by the time I had got through the gates onto the bridge and Mrs D had climbed in and I was about twenty yards in the lights must have changed and on the opposite side a single car came whizzing towards me being driven by what turned out to be a very irate French lady. :biggrin: You can see where this is going.

Rather than think "oh that van must be taking his time because its so tight, ill wait" She just ploughed ahead straight towards me shaking her fist and spouting all sorts of abuse. This was when the fun started as there is no way I was able to reverse and of course the French clearly do not teach reversing in their driving lessons as anyone who has driven in France will concur.

So reluctantly she started to back up. She must have just hit the accelerator pedal to the floor as the little clio or whatever it was bounced and zigzagged along the bridge out of control and luckily bounced off the curb at the end of the bridge and ended up sideways on the opposite entrance. When we arrived she was just sat there, ashen faced and too full of shock and fear to offer any further abuse. I smiled and waved of course and apologised before driving on where we both paused, turned to look at each other and pissed ourselves laughing.

 

[Haaamster]

Mnnn That is strange , there is a lady on W/C forum called Carol did the same thing :Sunglasses_Emoji::Sunglasses_Emoji::Tongue_Out_Emoji_wi

I heard she carried on driving for a few miles with the bridge sitting on top of her roof :Smiling_Face_Emoji:

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I once went to a wildies spot I got off the Wildcamping forum, I managed to find it ok, but it was as sometimes is not suitable really, so we carried on, and it was the worst road we'd ever been on bends too tight to get round so I had to reverse all the way back, annoyingly, I was on my way to another wild spot from there, it too was a rubbish spot, I do wish they would get intelligent people to vet them before including them, we have had some really good places, but they are quite rare.

 

[jeffmossy]

I heard she carried on driving for a few miles with the bridge sitting on top of her roof :Smiling_Face_Emoji:

Good job she isn't a member of this forum. I don't think she would like to see her escapades dragged up on this thread :Surprised_Face_Emoj:Shyly_Smiling_Face_

 

[Haaamster]

Good job she isn't a member of this forum. I don't think she would like to see her escapades dragged up on this thread :Surprised_Face_Emoj:Shyly_Smiling_Face_

Think it's all water under a bridge now Jeff.

 

[jeffmossy]

Think it's all water under a bridge now Jeff.

You are on the ball today Paul, Or should that be a motorhome under the bridge ?

 

[scouter]

Ah Sat Nav and its a 20 seconds shorter journey if we go over the hill instead of around it or though the town instead of around the ring road. I bought a Sat Nav originally to help me the driver when the navigator had a snooze. The snooze always occurred just before the poor sign posting where I would take a wrong turn.
Now we use the Sat Nav all the time but I wish there was a selection that said use only A roads or B roads or similar. We've found more rat runs that we ever knew existed.Fortunately our motorhome is only 2.12 wide but even so I dislike narrow single track roads with branches and brambles waiting to attack the sides of the van.
On the continent I generally have a policy of not turning into a lane thats single track or with grass growing in the middle although finding some of the France Passion sites in August was fun!

 

[GB584]

Having fallen foul of the bells of doom ringing out on the roof in Rouen and a narrow road that required Mrs GB to pull the plastic bollards to one side as I made very slow progress through them we invested in a new SatNav. The original one was very old and only had the basic European maps, the new all singing and dancing one promised to be a whole lot better.
That very same year and just outside of Denia we found ourselves on a narrowing road that turned into a track that took us through a fruit grove. As the oranges bumped against the wing mirrors I swore (actually I swore quite a bit) I would get a SatNav with the truck facility.
We now have two SatNavs and they are constantly in conflict with each other, the truck version constantly selects just main roads and the TomTom often tries to shave a second and 100mts off the journey by traversing someones garden. Mrs GB now has a good selection of maps and gets a priority call over both SatNavs..