Recent content by Colinn

...about 220 square miles - but I haven't checked it all out yet!!

Thank you all for your kind words and good wishes...once a caravanner always a caravanner I say! We have been in the New Forest for a month now after spending the last three summers visiting nearly every weekend. So we know the area pretty well. In fact, if anything, the move has exceeded our...

After being a caravanner on and off over the last 40 years - particularly the last four years - it's gone!!! Yes, sold the caravan. It's served us well and we have enjoyed enormously visiting our favourite area - the New Forest. But now we've moved house to live there - so not much point in...

Like Lutz, I just cannot understand why it is that after decades of manufacturing caravans, a fail-safe device has not been engineered to make sure that caravan wheels CANNOT come off. If wheels kept coming off coaches or lorries, every vehicle of their type would be taken off the road by the...

Call me Mr Dumbo if you like, but I can't understand why it is that some people experience wheels falling off caravans. I have been towing caravans and trailers for many years and regularly check wheel nuts - but have never even found one loose, let alone coming off. What is is about caravans -...

Hi James, I have been using a Vodafone dongle in the caravan for the last two or three months and recommend it providing you are in a decent reception area for Vodafone. In the van at my seasonal pitch, I can only get two or three bars of signal and things are frustratingly slow - but usable to...

Judging by the number of folk on this Forum who expound the virtues of winter caravanning, there must be plenty of people on site this weekend. Anyone who likes to use the van in winter must obviously expect to run into stormy weather from time to time. Me? Weather like this reminds me just why...

It's another stupid expression that always makes me smile, and it could be argued that the statement conveys exactly the opposite impression of a tow-car that the person intends - after all, if the car makes you forget your caravan is there it's put you in a very dangerous position indeed...

Hi Ian, I understand your reasoning - I felt the same way when I was selling my house with screened hard-standing in the garden, perfect for a caravanner. I would have loved a caravanner to buy it - but it never worked out that way! With cars, I am sure you will find that prospective...

I'm a big contender as far as my eight year old nephew is concerned... He slunk out of the room last Christmas and slumped in a kitchen chair with a very long face. What's up, asks Mum, are they talking caravans again? No worse than that, he said - caravan WHEELS!!!

Many thanks for all comments and suggestions. We have been "living" in the New Forest area as caravanners for two or three years now so feel we know what we are letting ourselves in for. True, it can get busy with visitors but there are ways and means to avoid the tourist areas. (Where isn't...

For the last few years, caravanning bliss for the wife and I has been in the New Forest - beautiful wildlife, endless walks, terrific scenery.. We liked it so much that our early retirement - joy, oh joy - has given us the freedom to go one better, and we're now buying a house down there. But...

I suppose most of us have two big fears when towing - uncontrollable snakes and a blow-out. How will we cope? What will happen to the outfit? Will we survive?? I've never experienced either - but last week I was overtaking (solo) a van on the M3 as it's offside tyre blew out. No big drama -...

Thanks for suggestions, I am monitoring and will perhaps get it sorted at service. (Tony - van is out of warranty). Tks.

Hi, can anyone advise with this one....??? Quite out of the blue, the rear roof vent of my four year old van developed a small but annoying drip of water when it rained. I re-sealed the existing sealant around the roof frame with Dow Corling waterproof sealant = but still the annoying drip from...