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This is how you do it..

I was talking with a guy on site last week who had just purchased a caravan. It was a 2011 model and rather nice

But he hadn’t got a clue what he was doing!

We all have to start somewhere so I was only

Too happy to share some of my caravan wisdom with him.

I told home that there were four main things he needed to know to get started:

The electrics

The toilet

The water system

The  heater

Oh sorry it’s five....

Where to keep your beer! 

So here is a brief break down of what I told him.

The electrics are fairly simple.  Don’t have too many devices on at the same time as they will trip the outside breaker on the caravan park. 

Next item ‘the toilet’ wasn’t so pleasant. I told him how to clean a caravan cassette toilet. I showed home where the water goes for the headset tank and I took him to the Elsan point. 

The water system I thought was a bit more straight forward but once I explained about how to remove air from an onboard pump I realised that I was overloading him with information. I said, most importantly, don’t turn on the electric water heater if it doesn’t have any water in it.

Again the heater needed a fair bit of information. My in laws put their heater on over night on 500words but I put it on 2000w and us the thermostat. I think that my way is better but either way, as long as you understand how it works then you can make your own choice.

Finally he asked me where the beers were, I replied on you after all that. 

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To site or not to site, that was the question

Having taken my caravan to a local caravan site in Worcestershire two weeks ago, it was mentioned to me that the pitch that we were staying on was actually a season pitch. Turns out that most of the tourers go on the fields and the season pitches are the pitches with the tarmac road and closer to the toilet and washroom facilities.

The warden at the site was showing a couple around and telling them about available pitches. I confirmed to the couple that this was a great pitch in a lovely position on the site. 

About ten minutes later J saw the warden again. I asked her if they had taken the pitch but she said there was one in the corner that they preferred.

I said to my wife that I thought that this was the best pitch on the site. She urged me to enquire for ourselves.

Thank got me thinking...

Fact is that Worcestershire isn’t that far away from our home.  My son plays football every Sunday morning so whilst it wouldn’t be worth touring for one night it would be ideal if we could go to the caravan even if we only had Friday night available.  Further more, we couldn’t stay a Saturday night because hooking up the caravan on a Sunday morning and driving back slowly would mean that we would miss the football game. Where as just simply locking the door means that we can leave early giving us two nights away in our caravan instead of having to miss the weekend 

With everything tilting in the direction of siting the van when we weighed it up, we did a deal and there the van stayed. 

It’s really important to see how caravaning can fit into your life especially as the kids get older and requirements change.   For us this is the best option for now and in the summer we will take it off it’s pitch and tour with it to the south coast. I still have France in mind for next year as well.

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Thousands of people now using static caravans completely legally during COVID.

How can this be?

At this point going away in your caravan is still illegal. As are all other forms of holiday.

So why are so many thousands of people in static caravans right now?

The answer is simple. They live in them.

If you own and live full time in a static caravan they are often called park homes and the site has different planning permission. 

It’s a bit of a kick in the teach though for everyone else who has paid thousands of pounds to purchase a static caravan and is paying thousands more is caravan site fees.

But is the risk of spreading covid and higher should you be aloud to use your holiday home?

I don’t think so.

As long as you keep to the rules of not letting other people from outside your household into your caravan. 

Fact is, that when most people are away in their holiday homes they like to spend as much time outside as possible. They have their static caravans wrapped in decking and often have better patio furniture than they have at home.

The same goes for touring caravans. 

Most people on a pleasant spring morning will get up out of bed and sit outside on a fold out chair to drink their morning cup of tea of coffee.  They will then cool their breakfast outside an a camping stove or barbecue, and spend much of the rest of the day outside.

In fact it in many ways camping and caravaning within a set of rules should be positively promoted. 

This said, the line in the sand has to be drawn somewhere and with many people constantly pushing the boundaries or even blatantly breaking the rules you can see why it’s not aloud. 

It’s just a shame that the difference between staying in a caravan legally and illegally is just a matter of planning permission and not lead by science or even common sense.

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Motorhome in style - My First blog

Well here in the Uk it’s almost time for us to get unlocked and get the motorhome out.  It has only been three miles this year and that was for an MOT!

So this is going to be my new blog was I get ready tom go and log (blog) my travels around the UK. Please follow me if you think that you can take the excitement. 

First stop Wales

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