Scotland being ruined

We do have a motorhome and we use campsites and pay for the facilities so we leave the place the way we found it. It's not just motorhomes who leave a mess, here in N I a few of our beauty spots and recreational areas have had to be closed because of the mess left by Weekender.. makes me wonder what their house is like,. Do they leave it like a tip too?
 
Campervanannie said:
Well that doesn’t work because I avoid all popular places during the pandemic and the height of summer but I still get tarred with the same brush as the dirty Moronhomer.
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Is that for the wrong reasons though!?🤣
 
Eurobiker330 said:
Well, really hacked off about this, which I knew was happening and would happen anyway.
Good lady was speaking to her sister tonight who lives in Ballachuilish, works in the Fort and covers most of Lochaber in a Primary care roll.
Locals are disgusted by Motorhomers and Wild Campers crapping and emptying their toilet cassettes at side of road, lay byes and other places.
NC 500 is particularly bad.
I know this will again glean unpleasant responses to me but that is what is happening.
I have travelled most of Scotland all my life since I was about 5 yrs old with my family in Strontian and areas, at 15 cycled Dundee -Fort W, and what everyone now calls the 500, Motorbiked it, drove it and hitched it before the Tourist Board listed it as such and never saw another human being generally.
Shame on anyone not paying this country the respect it deserves, if by just staying away or at least having some kind of plan on where you can stay, travel and at least leave it as you would expect to view it.
I am sure I will get responses like, `we were there and never saw anything like that! and we drove 500 miles to see it`, .
You are most likely the offenders.
1 seriouslly hacked off jock.
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it is not your problem, you have not dung-it. sheep and deer go free, i have not seen it happen, so here gose, heres to happy days, ok pj.
 
Campervanannie said:
Yes you will get a response like how dare you put that we are all most likely the offenders I hope you include yourself in that then, you can be a hacked off jock as much as you like but I can assure you that I and a lot of members on here have never done this and I like you have driven and wild parked and stayed on campsites along the NC 500 long before they ever thought of giving it a name like has been said it’s not just Scotland it’s all over the UK there just are some dirty bar stewards driving around dropping their shot wherever they feel like it so please go be hacked of elsewhere or try to be civil to members on here.
hacked off from Yorkshire another Place of beauty being used as a big outdoor toilet. 😡
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it wood a peer the crap has hit the fan, please stand to one side,ours gose in the box ,yes a bit niffy but .we take it with us,job done.ok.pj.
 
Millie Master said:
And this one exceptionally peeeeeeeeeeeeed off man from Lincolnshire.

Nothing disgusts me more than some of the scum bag people we are forced to share our lives with, don't they have any standards, don't they have any kind of respect! :mad::mad::mad:

Just recently down at Wells Next The Sea, what a friend described as the Benidormers had descended onto the beach leaving litter quite literally everywhere, not picking up any of the excrement their dogs had left behind and worse still, this scum could be seen crapping quite openly on the beach and then making no attempt to cover it up!!
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yes i think it would. ok.pj.
 
I think we can all agree that these places NC500 in this case just can't cope with the massive increase in visitors borne largely out of a sudden release from lockdown and limited alternative in the way of foreign holidays.

I can also see that misuse by some visitors would hack off local people and their representatives.

So...

Instead of taking to the press and social media perhaps these people should write to the government/tourist board and ask them to stop placing so many adverts on the TV shouting that Scotland is open for business and encouraging people to visit the Highlands because our economy needs you.

Just a thought.

P.S. And, although specifically asked not to say so, yes, I have visited the Highlands recently for a week wild camping in our van and only met friendly people who completely understood the problem. I must just have been lucky!
 
Gibbo said:
We do have a motorhome and we use campsites and pay for the facilities so we leave the place the way we found it. It's not just motorhomes who leave a mess, here in N I a few of our beauty spots and recreational areas have had to be closed because of the mess left by Weekender.. makes me wonder what their house is like,. Do they leave it like a tip too?
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What area does one take off from,most places around me are clean,but fast food outlets are the biggest problem with folk in cars turfing the left over papers out the window.
 
linkshouse said:
Instead of taking to the press and social media perhaps these people should write to the government/tourist board and ask them to stop placing so many adverts on the TV shouting that Scotland is open for business and encouraging people to visit the Highlands because our economy needs you.
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I think it may be more of a help writing to their local council making suggestions of areas in their locality that would be suitable for over night parking and maybe waste bumping points.
 
Wully said:
I remember being at Chester racecourse a few years back there must have been at least a couple of thousand motorhomes and campervans all shapes and sizes remember looking at the waste management system and how well it worked they organised and disposed of waste from toilets and large Elsan tanks a truck with a tank would come round twice a day and empty these tanks the guy who drove this truck then came on a wee money spinner on the side he would drive round like an ice cream van and empty peoples cassettes for a couple of quid dirty job but he made a few quid that weekend. Something similar Could be done in highlands tanks placed at garages and other locations collect waste for a fee then have a truck empty tanks when required. Something along these lines would make everybody’s life easier.
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Yeah, loads of us have septic tanks so there are plenty of sewage tank trucks...
 
We're doing the 500 right now in our motorhome.
And in the last week have seen evidence of cassette emptying right at the side off the car park.
For these people education is the only answer, and we all know who they are.
I know it's an extra few quid, but carry a spare cassette .
But by far the biggest problem is the tent, camp in my van or just sleep in the car brigade. Who have no were else to go but in a ditch or round the back of a tree, and then there's the washing of them selves in lochs and streams, which we've seen plenty of this week.
After saying all that, we were at one recognized wild stop over area that had a council sign encouraging campers to go into the woods with a spade or other digging implement.
 
Jeanette said:
I mentioned that my neighbours about 2 weeks ago when they were up near Durness that he was talking to a friend of his (a local) and the local was saying he’d stopped a motorhome from emptying his cassette into a stream which ran onto a beach where people were swimming and lying on the beach

(not the neighbours)...
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See that's a problem too no disrespect to you pal but Jane's sisters husband that works in the butchers well his friends cousins auntys best pal seen some motorhomer doing the nasty thing...... See where I'm coming from ? I know it happens but a lot of it is shyte from non motorhomer
 
Many times its a van or truck driver just stuck on a long trip,what does one do when the tortuous head starts to show. :eek:
 
When we were on our narrowboat we always had at least one spare cassette, most times two. Now on wheels in Bessie we keep a spare one in the rear storage cupboard just in case, but it has not been used yet but we are prepared.
 
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