OFF The Shelf 5

Some people say that the difference between a French campsite and an English one is The Help Your Self Shelf.

The French NEVER throw ANYTHING away, unless it’s the chance to become president, and so there is NO h-y-s.

However – I don’t. (say - that the difference between a French campsite and an English one is The Help Your Self Shelf.)

Do you know what the real difference is?

Bacon!

Wake up in the morning on an English camp site and the you will be assailed (is that the right word) by the smell of ….

No, hang on – wake up in the morning and FIRST you will be assailed by the sounds of Velcro and zips exploding around you and into your dream state.

Then you will be tortured by the sound of flip-flops flopping and flipping past on their way to the toilet block

Then you will hear the sizzles and THEN you will smell the bacon.

Apparently the English can’t camp without bacon.

And you NEVER find it on the Help Yourself Shelf!