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[Misc] Where is the strangest place you have ever slept?
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Cadiz Seagull
Grey bearded old man
In a Triumph Spitfire on the promenade in Nice with a girlfriend. We hadn't realised it was Bastille Day and all the hotels were full.
Bloody cramped it was too!
I wonder what happened to her? The car, that is, not the girlfriend. Well, maybe her as well.
Bloody cramped it was too!
I wonder what happened to her? The car, that is, not the girlfriend. Well, maybe her as well.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Wales.
Brok
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- Dec 26, 2011
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How the hell did you manage to sleep through that?
I've seen them a couple of times there, and both times ended up nearly deaf for a week!
jakarta
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Forties Bravo Accommodation Extension.
Need more beds on your oil platform?
Just hang a new module over the backside of it, jobs a good 'un.
Yes it's a bit lower than the proper accommodation & on a rough night you will feel the North Sea slapping the underside, but hey, it hasn't come loose yet.
My first offshore trip October 1991.
Need more beds on your oil platform?
Just hang a new module over the backside of it, jobs a good 'un.
Yes it's a bit lower than the proper accommodation & on a rough night you will feel the North Sea slapping the underside, but hey, it hasn't come loose yet.
My first offshore trip October 1991.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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The toilet of an all-girls Hall of Residence at St Osyth's Teacher Training College, Clacton in 1974.
jasetheace
New member
- Apr 13, 2011
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Me?... The thirteenth duke of ....
1. 1985 Bus stop in Germany while hitchhiking to Berlin. Woke up in morning to find it full of morning commuters waiting for their bus. Snuggled back down inside my sleeping bag until the commuter rush had died down.
2. November 1980. Back of a lorry trailer in France whilst motorbiking down to Italy. Woke up just in time before trailer was hitched up to be driven off.
3. Same trip. Outside someone's remote gated manor house somewhere in the mountains of the Massif Central. Was just settled down for a relaxing sleep when the owner came out to warn me the area wasn't safe as it was full of "vagabonds" and wolves before disappearing back into the safety of his gated house. Didn't even have the courtesy to offer me a bed for the night. Remained where I was but slept with one eye open for the rest of the night.
4. 1979. Settled down for the night in a derelict double decker bus in Belgium strewn with used condoms and hypodermic needles. After a couple of hours we decided to look for something a bit more salubrious which led to.....
5. A few miles down the road we noticed a caravan parked in someone's driveway which looked quite inviting so parked the motorbike up and tried the door to find it was unlocked. As we were making ourselves at home I noticed the owners nervously peering out from behind their curtains of their house. I thought it only polite to inform them we were staying the night in their caravan if only to put their minds at rest so knocked on their door and told them. Good job I did because when the police turned up about half an hour later after noticing lights in the caravan I was able to tell them we had the owners' permission so they left us alone.
6. Circa 1982 following a festival. Ticket office of Farnham Railway station after missing last train home and noticing open skylight. Rudely awoken by the police who told us to find somewhere more suitable to sleep which led to....
7. Some random hotel room which we sneaked into without paying. Three of us in a double bed being awoken to find ourselves surrounded by same members of Farnham constabulary shining torches in our eyes uttering the immortal words, "oh look it"s the three bears again" which led to....
8. Farnham police cells where we had an undisturbed sleep and woken with a cup of tea in the morning in time to catch the first train home. No charges. Very tolerant and accomodating lot were Farnham's finest.
2. November 1980. Back of a lorry trailer in France whilst motorbiking down to Italy. Woke up just in time before trailer was hitched up to be driven off.
3. Same trip. Outside someone's remote gated manor house somewhere in the mountains of the Massif Central. Was just settled down for a relaxing sleep when the owner came out to warn me the area wasn't safe as it was full of "vagabonds" and wolves before disappearing back into the safety of his gated house. Didn't even have the courtesy to offer me a bed for the night. Remained where I was but slept with one eye open for the rest of the night.
4. 1979. Settled down for the night in a derelict double decker bus in Belgium strewn with used condoms and hypodermic needles. After a couple of hours we decided to look for something a bit more salubrious which led to.....
5. A few miles down the road we noticed a caravan parked in someone's driveway which looked quite inviting so parked the motorbike up and tried the door to find it was unlocked. As we were making ourselves at home I noticed the owners nervously peering out from behind their curtains of their house. I thought it only polite to inform them we were staying the night in their caravan if only to put their minds at rest so knocked on their door and told them. Good job I did because when the police turned up about half an hour later after noticing lights in the caravan I was able to tell them we had the owners' permission so they left us alone.
6. Circa 1982 following a festival. Ticket office of Farnham Railway station after missing last train home and noticing open skylight. Rudely awoken by the police who told us to find somewhere more suitable to sleep which led to....
7. Some random hotel room which we sneaked into without paying. Three of us in a double bed being awoken to find ourselves surrounded by same members of Farnham constabulary shining torches in our eyes uttering the immortal words, "oh look it"s the three bears again" which led to....
8. Farnham police cells where we had an undisturbed sleep and woken with a cup of tea in the morning in time to catch the first train home. No charges. Very tolerant and accomodating lot were Farnham's finest.
Miximate
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In my seat at the Amex when Hypia was manager. The closest I came to chucking in my season ticket
The roundabout outside the Elms pub in Worthing, I’d eaten a Chinese meal there, so, I was a bit tired, and it seemed like a good idea.
Standing up, leaning against a bus shelter on Worthing sea front. I was woken up by the OB.
An England game, on the wooden benches, at the old Wembley.
The common factor in all these events, was copious amounts of alcohol had been consumed.
Just remembered, Torquay Police Station Social Club floor,when the ship I was serving on, couldn’t get boats out to pick up the lads who had gone ashore, because of bad weather . The coppers didn’t want 150 drunken matelots breaking into beach huts, fishing boats etc, so they could sleep in the dry.
Standing up, leaning against a bus shelter on Worthing sea front. I was woken up by the OB.
An England game, on the wooden benches, at the old Wembley.
The common factor in all these events, was copious amounts of alcohol had been consumed.
Just remembered, Torquay Police Station Social Club floor,when the ship I was serving on, couldn’t get boats out to pick up the lads who had gone ashore, because of bad weather . The coppers didn’t want 150 drunken matelots breaking into beach huts, fishing boats etc, so they could sleep in the dry.
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ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
I thought that when I got arrested by Sussex Police in the 1990's In Hastings. A very clean, warm, comfortable cell with a working toilet. A lovely cup of tea first thing in the morning from the very nice Gaoler, before being discharged, without charges, by a charming WPC.
The strange thing was I was every bit as drunk and incapable at 0800 in the morning when I was released as I was at 0230 when they arrested me outside the kebab shop.
Templeton Peck
Faceman
Luggage Conveyor belt at George Bush Airport Texas.
Steve Martin & Martin Short stand up gig in Phoenix (was massively jet lagged and they were not funny at all).
Field in Haywards Heath before a football tournament after a heavy night out in London.
Double shower in a my hotel room after a night out in Vegas, I'd brought my pillows and quilt with me from the bed and then put the shower on to get warm. Dunno why I did it as I wasn't sharing a room with anyone, I was just very hammered.
Steve Martin & Martin Short stand up gig in Phoenix (was massively jet lagged and they were not funny at all).
Field in Haywards Heath before a football tournament after a heavy night out in London.
Double shower in a my hotel room after a night out in Vegas, I'd brought my pillows and quilt with me from the bed and then put the shower on to get warm. Dunno why I did it as I wasn't sharing a room with anyone, I was just very hammered.
Silverhatch
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Couple of weeks in a cave near sharm el sheikh in 1981. Honourable mention for 2 nights in Syntagma Square Athens (very dodgy)
Hampden Park
Ex R.N.
- Oct 7, 2003
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dockyard crane platform chatham dockyard 1982
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
Survival shelter in northern Norway at -28.
Back of a sea king.
Storm ditch at RAF Akrotiri after getting sh*t faced in the junior rates bar.
Back of a sea king.
Storm ditch at RAF Akrotiri after getting sh*t faced in the junior rates bar.
Weststander
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A sleep that didn’t quite happen - drove to the Scottish Highlands when I first got a driving licence at 17 with two mates. In the Cairngorms we were setting up our tent, when an aggressive gamekeeper pulled up in a Land Rover Defender, and carrying a shotgun told us to p*ss off. We obliged.
The Honeyclub
Coincidence, I made one of their doormen go to sleep, just outside !
The patch of grass outside the Alliance Building Society in Hove. I couldn't be bothered to get home and as I started work at 8, I thought I'd get a head start. It was a Saturday (for overtime) so I wasn't in work clothes so no-one could be bothered by a few grass stains