Hi to all

[Anita_5109950]

Whoops, reading other posts here, looks like I've made a major breach of etiquette of posting a question without introducing myself.

There me, my husband Steve, children Laura(13) and Will(11)and live in the Cotswolds.

We first bought a van in Oct 04. It was a wet Saturday and we had nothing to do. Steve said 'Lets go and look round a caravan dealer' which we duly did and came away with a 2000 Coachman Laser 590/5. Took it to Loire valley last year and really enjoyed ourselves. However there were 7 of us in total which meant that we had to use the bunk above our bed and got really fed up with being trampled on in the night when our son got up for the loo.

So we PXed it in September for a Swift Fairway 590 (dealer model equivalent to a Charisma 590). The bunk beds make it much easier although the way the kids are growing I don't know how many years use we'll get out of it. Off to Germany at Whitsun and Italy in the summer.

The one thing I have found since I've been caravanning is what a friendly lot you all seem to be. None of your reserved English stiff upper-lip here!

 

[GillandMike]

Hi Anita

This is Gill, Mikes wife here. Glad to have a fellow Cotswoldian on the forum. We live just down the Fosse Way from you at Chedworth. It's just the two of us now as the "little darlings" have been persuaded to get jobs and leave home. (that is Helen 26 and Matthew 24). We have two Golden Retrievers (not substitute children-----well maybe) and bought our van last summer after thinking very hard whether to buy a motor home, demountable (hands up those who know what that is) or a caravan. We had 'vanned when the children were younger, but gave it up about ten years ago when the kids refused to go in it again and we wouldn't leave them behind (which is what they really wanted us to do!!)

Its been great coming back to caravaning again. We had three short breaks last year and have a two and a half week trip booked in June to Cornwall and plan to head to North Norfolk Sept/Oct. Roll on retirement, we'll never be here.

Regards

Gill

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Welcome to the forum Anita. :O) Don't get carried away that everyone is friendly though, as you will see on here at times hehheh!

 

[Steve L]

HI and welcome to the forum and caravanning.

For the most part we're a friendly lot and one oft he things I like about our hobby is it is class less.

You could be pitched next to a nusre, an ex paramedic, a proto type car tester, an ex lorry driver, A pub landlord, A house wife (the most important job, a BMW mechanic, a Construction engineer. And that's just our family troop when we go caravanning. But we all muck in and ahve fun.

Fun and happyness is the recipie of good caravanning.

enjoy.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

HI and welcome to the forum and caravanning.

For the most part we're a friendly lot and one oft he things I like about our hobby is it is class less.

You could be pitched next to a nusre, an ex paramedic, a proto type car tester, an ex lorry driver, A pub landlord, A house wife (the most important job, a BMW mechanic, a Construction engineer. And that's just our family troop when we go caravanning. But we all muck in and ahve fun.

Fun and happyness is the recipie of good caravanning.

enjoy.

........... or a Lord of the Realm :O)