Recent content by darren_374234478

Hi, I am going to La Garangeoire in a couple of weeks, cant wait. Ill let you know how we get on. We have a big caravan so are hoping for a good size pitch. Staying for 14 nights from 8th august. Does anybody know if its good for cycling? trying to decide whether to take my bike or not. Cheers...

Thank you all so much for your kind and encouraging thoughts, i do have friends who caravan, and so do my folks, i have no problems with pitching my twin axle up and setting up alone, the wife never did much of that, and my daugter seemed to enjoy it just as much if not more. so there is no...

Hi all, Just returned from my easter trip in the caravan, had a great time at Dower House Touring Park in thetford forest. It was my first trip away without my wife, although our 6 year old daughter came along and had a great time, so good that she didnt want to leave. Do you think its ok to...

hello all, being self employed and vat registered i was wondering what towing with a pick up truck like the nissan navara or the mitsubshi l200 is like. what are your views, they seam very practical an could tow most vans. would there be any problems on sites being strictly a commercial...

Hi all, Any oppinions, experience, or views on the pathfinder as a tug. Currently have the new xt but could do with a bit more space and possibly weight, towing a 1600mtplm twin. Cheers for now, Darren

Hi again, After some consideration we have decided that august will be too busy for disney, especially with a baby.So we have booked the st-malo crossing, sat 7th august. quite expensive i know, but a very civilised and relaxing start to what should hopefully be a great holiday. Is it a good...

Hi All, We are off to the vendee staying at La Garangoeire for 2 weeks in august and was going to take the st malo night ferry leaving a nice easy drive. After pricing up the return crossing with a twin axle at over £800 with a cabin i started to think of going dover-calais saving over £600...

greetings, Now that brittany ferrys have started the 2010 summer bookings we are thinking of booking for next summers holiday. Looks like its either Sequoia Parc or Le Garangoire in the vendee, I would love some opinions on these sites, we will be travelling with our seven year old and a...

Hi, I have the 173hp aventura explora, and have recently changed caravans.Our new van is a twin axle bailey with an mtplm of 1589. Our first trip was around 440 miles return and the xt performed very well returning around 24 mpg. Great Car!. Darren.

Hi all, We gave our summer holiday to france a miss this year as my wife is pregnant and had a fortnight in sumerset. Definatly heading back over the channel next year and was thinking of the vendee. We will be travlling with our then 7 year old girl and our baby boy. La Garangeore always...

Hi, We are looking at changing our champagne for a limousine, we had a good look at the van on sunday and was quite impressed, although maybe not totally sold by the teak interior it does seem to grow on you. Anybody got this van, what do you think of it? The dealer offered us a display model...

Hi Ray, Point taken, i guess i slightly misunderstood your original reply. Sure thing a van of that weight could cause more stick on the car than i lighter model, especially in a hill start situation, but as i said it would still be well below the permitted towing weight of 2200kg. And im sure...

Thanks for your views, However i do believe that to say that the twin axle would be a getting a bit heavy (only 45kg more than your ace) is a bit silly, this is only the weight of a child. And also the comment about the car getting some stick sounds bizare, it is capable of tugging 2200kg...

Hi all I have the new o8 nissan x trail 171bhp aventura explora and think its a great tow car, we currently tow a 1380kg mtplm caravan but would like a bigger van with fixed bed/ end washroom. the twin axle pageant limousine weighing in at 1580 and 7.8m long looks good, but also i now see a...

We thought for sometime about making the yearlly French holiday, and in the end decided to go for it despite of the euro and the economic climate. We normally travel late july/ earlly august and take a long overnight crossing from portsmouth, this year we are going the last 2 weeks in august and...