Recent content by anotherDavid

I have been a member for many years but only for the other caravanning products insurance ferries etc.Its useful as they offer terms not easily found elswhere especially if one wants to taker long trips.. I rarely ever camp in the UK apart from the odd night on the way to the docks but tend to...

I have a Hobby that is particularly attractive to thieves and use one of these JSB Hublocks. My dealer lost 2 before he started using them, lost non since. Its a pain having to remove a wheel when we get home and refitting before we leave but to the best of my knowledge nobody has succeeded...

My experience with satellite set ups has all been in Europe so might nit be appropriate for the UK but abroad the signal kept getting more restricted and we went from a 60cm dish to 90cm to a 1.7m rented dish (in Portugal) and eventually the man renting out the dishes gave up. I have decided...

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.

I dont think it can get worse, having attended a wife's funeral myself a long time ago the only way is up. Best of luck.

Our towcar is just that and spends over 80% of its time towing. It goes back in the garage mid October hooked up to a battery charger and rarely moves until Spring. For the rest of the time we have a Yaris runabout . Its quite old and could possibly be replaced eventually with an EV but with...

We are recently returned from a trip to Spain , cut no corners with ferries or sites. 80 nights £5200 (including supermarket shopping we would do at home) of which fuel was £657. Cheap at the price in the scheme of things, last package holiday was over £4k for 2 weeks. So the answers no we only...

Using Auto Traders an online calculator with my towing consumption of 32 mpg and with fuel at UK prices your 260 miles would cost me £71.34 so I think the jury is still very much out on the economics when towing but I do see that pottering about solo and charging at home it is very different...

We sailed to Bilbao on the 7th of April. It was only the 3rd crossing and the staff were still getting into the swing of things but we loved it. Had a Comodore cabin which althouth like a cupboard gave us access to the premier lounge where we were able to spend a very relaxing day complete...

I dropped Red Pennant this year after using it for 50 trips since 1980. They had changed the long stay policy that I had been using to cover 2 trips totalling 122 days in such a way as to require 2 policies instead at a total of nearly £500 instead of the existing £360 as Its now only...

I have been travelling to Spain and Portugal for many years using Western channel ports and I have described the routes and night halts we use here https://sites.google.com/site/caravaneurope/home/routes Actually unless you have plans for the French part of the trip 4 days is quite generous...

You dont say when you are planning to go but if its outside July and early August there is no need to book sites. It might sound a bit scary compared with the UK where booking is practically compulsory but apart from our first trip in 1980 when we made the beginners mistake and went to the...

I keep a careful record of all our spending , and know exactly what our trips cost. Its not onerous to do , combine the credit card bills, cash withdrawals , ferry and insurance for a grand total but this does not take account of what we would have spent at home so the true cost of the trip...

I am older than you but when the day comes as it must to all of us that I cant manage the overseas trips I will get rid of the van, it was the reason I took up caravanning in the first place nearly 40 years ago and the thought of swapping what we have now for overcrowded overpriced sites in the...

We have been every year now for 10 years on our way back from Spain and stayed for varying lengths of time but never less than a week. You must cycle though as it is quite a small island and touring in the car would very quickly cover it, also the roads are narrow and parking is nort great. Dont...