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Hi All Just got back from Spain for 9 weeks travelling across from Santander to La Manga then worked our way up the coast to Barcellona then back across to Bilbao, my volvo xc60 r-design 2.4 behaved perfectly.My caravans weight is 1650 but with all the extras proberly nearly 2000.The...

Hi all I have the XC 60 r-design 213bhp 2014 had it for 4yrs now previous car the XC 90 I think its a great tow car towing my Coachman all over europe.The weight of my caravan is 1650kg but by the time my wife has loaded it for our 3 months away over winter it must weigh 2 tons ha ha.If...

Hi We had the same caravan and had lots of problems with things falling off and the same problem with the bed box, we only kept the caravan for 12 months and sold it before anything else fell off.

Hi all We are looking for somewhere around Derby Dales over the bonfire weekend where there will be no fireworks as our dog is petrified of the loud bangs,we are members of both of the main caravan clubs so a farm site would be fine aslong as they have E.H. coachman Volvo xc60 r-design

Hi brissle we have done this trip several times and we found a site at Haro near the town centre,it is about 1 and a half hours from the port. volvo xc60 Coachman pastiche

Hi Bluerocket I have towed with my Xc 60 R-design for the past 3yrs.Last year we travelled across Spain and have been impressed with the car fuel consumption solo is brilliant and towing average 25mpg.I tow a Coachman 565 and its tows it a treat.There a few different engines and bhp mine is the...

Hi all if your looking for a new T.V for your caravan Aldi are selling next week a 24" 12v with built in DVD player for £134 and you can pre order online.Friends of ours purchased one last year and has had no problems with it. Volvo R-design & Coachman

Hi All We were in Benidorm this time last year in our caravan and you need a 1.2 M dish to receive British T.V that far down,luckily our neighbours let us connect on to theres and used our own box.

The wife and I went there about 7yrs ago and the site had several groups of travellers and they were very very noisy all night with cars and vans speeding and screeching tyres.The white vans with the plastics facias on the top.We reported to the office on our leave and told them about the...

One of the best tow cars I had was a Mitsubishi shogun 3.2 2004, we used to go on a lot of caravan rallies and on one occasion the field was like a bog but the car drag us on the field and when the rally finished back off again without any help the caravan was up to its axles but the Shogun...

Hi Rob We purchased a 2015 bailey Unicorn new had a few problems but were sorted by dealer but the build quality after two years things were breaking and trims wearing badly, we try to look after our caravans but we were worried about trade in values when we decide to change so got...

perhaps if you put the answer U.K as Scotland is part of the U.K

hi Rob I have used a sky dish all over the country with no problem.We used the same dish in France and Spanish border until a couple of years ago when they decided to move the Satellite footprint so can now only use it half way down France.When we were in Spain over Christmas and New...

Sorry yes I meant complete weight.

Hi all, we did the Christmas away in Spain this year for 10 weeks and found that if you go to a brico builders merchant a large 22kg gas bottle was €12.50 euro,you have to buy a new regulator €8, when you purchase a bottle you have to fill a form in but no deposit required.I heard on there local...