26 July 2010 : Written by A Camping Ninja
Similarly to people being stranded on their holidays due to the ash cloud, cancelled flights or travel companies going bust, you may not expect it to happen in quite the same, one in a million, back of the mind chances like you would with a holiday overseas, but the same can happen when you're camping too.
We were due to travel back home yesterday afternoon but due to a rare breed, herd of cows with a national protection order preventing anyone from moving them, blocking the only exit road out of the little village where the campsite we're staying at is, we're unable to leave, until the cows decide to do so of their own will. Definitely not moo hoo for me - I am very happy about it!
The tricky thing now though is having to call work on a Monday morning and tell them that after taking a month off for a camping holiday in the UK, you're not going to be able to make it back in for possibly another week, or two even, because of the whim of some Devonshire cows!
Eric, who was too embarrassed to tell his work that he was going camping anyway, braves the phone first. He makes up this hugely unbelievable, long, garrulous story about how his plane was diverted to a desert island on the way home and that now he's marooned there, stranded in the middle of the ocean and growing a beard.
The gritty details are shocking, as is the amount of detail he goes into and 35 minutes later when he ends the call, his made up story is strangely more believable than the true one I'm about to tell when I call my work. Because quite frankly, who's going to believe you when you tell them you're stuck on your holiday because you can't get past a few cows?!!