We passed a homeowner complaining because 3 or 4 cars had arrived and just parked in his yard and gone off for a picnic. He doesn't have signs up to say no parking because it's never happened before.
I know what I'd have done.....
People are disgusting @Lyn. There's no excuse for people to be rude to the folk who live and work in these areas either. Do they think no one actually lives or works in the place they've chosen to go to? Just because many areas rely on tourism, it doesn't mean they can treat the people or the area like sh*t. Vile cretins. We're now getting that right up in the north because of the amount of people suddenly doing the NC500. It's difficult enough because so much of that whole route is very sparsely populated, so there simply isn't the infrastructure to cope with even more people. Tiny hamlets or villages being inundated with morons with no idea how to behave - or drive. Parking in passing places, leaving 'everything' behind them etc. It's become a poisoned chalice.Â
Glad your son is ok though.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
He said he'd probably have let them park there if they'd asked. Â I think everyone is annoyed at the amount of tourists that have turned up this year but at the same time everyone knows it's exceptional times and people don't need extra stress right now so they're trying to be tolerant. It's just a shame some visitors are being so disrespectful, and like Lyn says there's no public toilets anywhere...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
All the public toilets are open around here so why not in tourist areas? Surely this is an opportunity to make income for the beautiful areas in this country as people are unable to holiday abroad. The local councils should be better organised with parking and facilities to cash in on this vital revenue. So surprising when people in charge are inefficient.Â
You can't just instantly create new car parks and toilet facilities in huge parts of the country though. Not without destroying the very reason for those areas to be beautiful to visit in the first place. Durness is a case in point.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53713593
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I agree with you both @debs64 and @Fairygirl - public toilets, where they exist, should be open and being cleaned and the people who use them should also be clean in their use. Ditto car parks.
However, wilderness is just that, no public facilities and people should realise and respect that too.
It's no different to the people who park across driveways near schools @KT53. My sister lives near a primary school, and a resident told her, having experienced this and confronted the offender, that the rude woman told her 'she should have thought of that when she bought a house near the school'. The houses were there some twenty years before the school was built.
The difficulty with existing public toilets in beach areas etc is that during the epidemic there was a two fold problem. People who clean and maintain them in shorter supply, and the enormity of the task in keeping them cleaned when you had social distancing at two metres. Add on the extra numbers of Joe Public, and it was always going to be disastrous. It still doesn't excuse the behaviour of those people leaving their 'trash', including human waste, and expecting others to clear it up. They brought it, so they can take it home in a plastic bag.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I might complain about the heat, its 35.1 in my garden now, 43.5 in the (north facing) conservatory I am sitting in, one of the fans, has burnt out. Just treated ourselves to another portable air cooler, and air conditioning unit. Dont think you can "sides to middle" a fitted sheet can you. Have just bought some anit alergy pillow protectors, but they are quilted, maybe best not put them on yet. Changed the bedding today, AND have removed the duvet!
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People are disgusting @Lyn.Â
There's no excuse for people to be rude to the folk who live and work in these areas either. Do they think no one actually lives or works in the place they've chosen to go to? Just because many areas rely on tourism, it doesn't mean they can treat the people or the area like sh*t. Vile cretins.
We're now getting that right up in the north because of the amount of people suddenly doing the NC500. It's difficult enough because so much of that whole route is very sparsely populated, so there simply isn't the infrastructure to cope with even more people. Tiny hamlets or villages being inundated with morons with no idea how to behave - or drive. Parking in passing places, leaving 'everything' behind them etc. It's become a poisoned chalice.Â
Glad your son is ok though.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not without destroying the very reason for those areas to be beautiful to visit in the first place. Durness is a case in point....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53713593
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
However, wilderness is just that, no public facilities and people should realise and respect that too.
My sister lives near a primary school, and a resident told her, having experienced this and confronted the offender, that the rude woman told her 'she should have thought of that when she bought a house near the school'.Â
The houses were there some twenty years before the school was built.
The difficulty with existing public toilets in beach areas etc is that during the epidemic there was a two fold problem. People who clean and maintain them in shorter supply, and the enormity of the task in keeping them cleaned when you had social distancing at two metres. Add on the extra numbers of Joe Public, and it was always going to be disastrous.
It still doesn't excuse the behaviour of those people leaving their 'trash', including human waste, and expecting others to clear it up. They brought it, so they can take it home in a plastic bag.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...