Down with pop-tops

I hate pop-tops - you know - the modern equivalents of the VW caravanette without the character. I never pitch next to one if I can possibly help it and I get a sinking feeling when I see one coming towards the vacant pitch next door. I think there should be a separate area on site for these tents-on-wheels. Caravans don't have much sound-proofing but these campervans have none, plus, they are fitted with car stereos - not a good combination. I very rarely have to ask the neighbours to turn it down but, recently, I had to do so twice with the owner of a campervan who liked to listen to the radio and assumed that all her neighbours did too - at 10.30pm. Also, the sliding side doors, which most campervans seem to have, make a hell of a racket when the occupants decide to visit the toilet block in the wee small hours of the morning. Give me a caravan with proper on-board facilities for weak bladders any night of the week. Campervans are ideal for wild caravanning, where they can park up in a remote layby and not bother anybody, indeed I sometimes wish I had one myself for that very purpose. They are not good neighbours on caravan sites and so, if you, dear reader, happen to own one of these blots on the landscape, please do not park it next to my beautiful Bailey. Go off and find a layby somewhere, far from human habitation. Or buy a caravan.