Recent content by loadsadogs

Hi Mich, and hope you find a suitable 'van to work on soon. I've done a fair bit of recovering of caravan seating myself, and have found some brilliant upholstery fabrics on eBay - for example 10m of thick jumbo cord for about 20 quid. You can buy continuous zipping on there too, which makes a...

Thanks for your post weestevieb. We've already got our sites booked, but I took a look at the one you mentioned. Have you noticed their charges for visitors? A visitor less than 10 mins costs 1 euro, more than 10 mins is hiked up to 5 euros, but heck, if your visitor stays all night the...

Hi Jeff, we also had problems with the front falling off the fire on our last 'van (which has actually gone now - somebody nicked it!). I searched around the web and found that it was a recognised fault. In fact, it may have been on this forum that I found some info. The 'van was still under...

Has anyone mentioned milk? We assumed there would be a whole aisle of milk in various forms, as in our supermarkets, but not so at the places we went. Lots of longlife, but only a tiny section in the chiller for fresh everyday milk.

"six whole pigs tongues. No way were we adults or my daughter going to eat these…. ................my son scoffed the whole tin as if it was the best thing he had ever tasted!! I still shudder at the thought to this day" Gafferbill, what goes around, comes around. If your son is out there...

Thanks for the tips. Ardres is too far north for our last stop, unfortunately, and I can't find any info about opening times for the vets near where we'll be staying (St Quentin). I've tried the PagesJaunes site, but clicking on the Mail icon only brings up a blank form, no mention of an email...

Having made a right pig's ear of it last year, I thought I'd be clever and EMAIL ahead to get a vet's appointment for our dog before we return to the UK from France. However, try as I might, I can't find an email address for any of the vets near where we're going. My googling comes up with...

Perhaps the Webmaster is on an extended caravan trip. We had a French site booked thro the CC, but somebody rang recently to say it had failed its inspection and the booking was therefore cancelled. Oddly tho, you can still find this site on their website, fill in all your dimensions etc, and...

What a relief to know your dog is well again. Whilst caravanning in Yorks a couple of years ago, our 12-month old GSD was suddenly pole-axed with something similar and we nearly lost him. The vet kept asking for reassurance that he'd been vaccinated, and we were told to prepare ourselves for...

How seriously do other countries take this requirement? With the headlamp bulbs for our Pathfinder costing hundreds of pounds (surely that can't be right, but I think that's what OH told me) we settled for a couple of kits from the Pound Shop, which we could bring out to impress anybody that...

Nationwide didn't seem to take my phone calls seriously last year when I rang to say we were going abroad, but this year I see they have a special page on their website where you can tell them. Much better, I hope, fingers crossed!

You beat me to it by 6 secs, Keith! I was going to say much the same, but not based on experience, only on reading a book (which I can't find atm, but it was one of those where somebody travels around, eating the local cuisine and writing humorous tales about it all). Anyway, he quite put us...

Really like the sound of the ACSI card. OH is already saying we won't be able to afford France next year, so I'm going to stash that little idea away to help with persuading him otherwise. Not that I'm cunning and devious obviously - moi??? - but once he gets negative thoughts in his head...

Val, that sounds like a good way to tour. Are the Camping Cheques and ACSI card roughly similar? We've just had our Sept booking cancelled by the Caravan Club, because the site hadn't passed its inspection (wonder if the spiders in the shower had anything to do with it ), so we're now in the...

Thanks for that, John. Anything that makes for less anxiety is OK by me. I guess the new rules won't make much difference to people who have their pets vaccinated against rabies regularly, but once you lapse, then the blood test will have to be done again and in future we will have to wait...