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  kent murphy

  a month ago

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  Apparently, the horse-drawn caravan is now nostalgia, and, so, you can enjoy it on holiday.   https://irishhorsedrawncaravans.com/Caravan.htm

  
  

  

  
  

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  kent murphy

  a month ago

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  I lived in Ireland in the early 1990's, and the third picture - the cylindrical one - brings back memories.  

  
  

  Back in the day - maybe now, I don't know, who knows - there were travelling people - known as "travellers" or "tinkers," or what Americans would think of as "gypsies" - and I was only aware of them from the television, except that, when I lived in a small seaside town north of Dublin, one morning I walked over to the seaside, and saw some cylindrical horse-drawn caravans in the carpark, and, later in the day - about noon - I was in the pub, and told Sean what I had seen, and he said they'll be gone soon, and, later in the day - maybe the next morning - I wandered to the seaside, and, sure enough,  the caravans were gone and the carpark had large rocks piled up in the entrance points, as a "don't come back" message.  

  
  

  So, it's interesting that somebody in Ireland wants to upgrade - make posh - the tiny home.  Has the Celtic Tiger gotten it's claws into the horse-drawn caravan, which was the typical Irish "tiny home."

  
  

  By they way, what's the difference between a "tiny home" and the old fashioned trailer?  Except that, I guess, after Hurricane Katrina, the government seemed to have thousands and thousands of trailers available, except that they were contaminated with formaldehyde.  Oops. 

  
  

  I suppose the bad publicity from Katrina's formaldehyde trailers gave people the idea to for "tiny homes" that people made with wood and nails. 

  
  

  At the time of Hurricane Katrina, I remember that a Dutch aid group offered a bunch of tents, and they were rejected, with the statement "American's don't live in tents."  

  
  

  Not tents that can be shipped collapsed in bulk, but, rather, in formaldehyde-contaminated trailers that have to be hauled on tractor trailers, and,  once they are discovered to be poisoning the beneficiaries, I think they gave a lot of lawyers the opportunity to sue who knows who.

  
  

  Somebody, of course, got a contract to make all those trailers, and somebody got the contract to store them, and somebody got the contract to haul them, and somebody....

  
  

  And, I think, after the Haiti earthquake, some of the formaldehyde trailers wound up down there, where nobody will sue, and the life expectancy probably make formaldehyde nothing to worry about.

  
  

  I'm glad the Celtic Tiger gave somebody enough money that the old-fashioned horse-drawn caravan will disappear from the Irish landscape, and the carpark from a little seaside town north of Dublin.

  
  

  I'll drink to that.  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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