You don't have to go to Siberia
Last year Mrs Jannie, Miss Jannie and I went to la belle France with car and caravan. On the way back the last day of the hol was to be at Parc Asterix so, being cheapskates, we decided to stop at the nearest lorry park for the night. We stopped long enough to work out that the eye-watering smell was caused by the fact that not one lorry driver could be arsed to walk to the bogs. They just flopped it out against the nearest wheel and let fly so everyone was driving through and paddling in it. We drove North to the next "services".

It was getting late and, to save a walk to the facilities, Mrs Jannie decided to have a tinkle in the caravan bog - only to find it was full. I asked her to wait until it was dark then I'd take the tank to the bogs and empty it. This I did, to find that it was a stand and deliver French bog and some dirty sod had laid two enormous logs on the footrests. With true British resourcefulness and presence of mind I flushed them away with the contents of our tinkle tank and left the place smelling a bloody sight better than it did when I arrived.
(The Jannie, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 21:38, 3 replies)

These 2CV folk get everywhere...
Sounds like a few experiences we've had in those French aires ;)
(ramrod_newell had his hair brushed at, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 22:09, closed)

ugh
Sounds familiar, though I swear to god, I have seen bad toilets and the Ukrainian one was way beyond the realms of bad. Even the squat toilet in Libya after 5 days of hardcore cryptosporidiosis was better.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Jan 2008, 9:56, closed)

*click*
for the phrase "tinkle tank"
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Jan 2008, 14:05, closed)