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In 2014 we sold a really nice Volvo—Bailey outfit that really wasn’t being used enough. Everything went down to the last awning peg. Over the next three years we had some three trips to the sub Continent, northern Spain, Ireland and within UK too. When we travelled abroad the dogs were kennelled. In late 2016 we got nostalgic again for a caravan and as George Osborne had stopped NHS funding for staff to study for a nursing degree our daughters plans were stopped dead in their tracks. Being a single mum with a 13 year old she wasn’t in any position to take out student loans. So we decided to buy another caravan in December 2016.
Our first forays were short stays in local sites, with Scotland being the longer summer trip. Not a howling success with appalling ing weather and midges, so we ran south to Northumberland which at least was drier and midge-less. Then our daughter was offered a two year NHS funded Foundation degree in integrated mental health and social care. This was a pilot course set up in anticipation of changes to the way health and care were expected to go when the Government had made its decision. ( still waiting on that one). So we all agreed that it could work.
2018 started okay and we had organised a long trip to Luxembourg, Germany and France but a week before setting off my father took ill and until July 2019 I spent long periods in Leicester, at time taking the caravan up there. In between time we had moved house to be closer to our daughter as we were doing lots of commuting and late nights. Our holiday in Suffolk that autumn was cancelled as my BIL fell ill and we were up and down to Coventry. Our daughter graduated, and then surprise, surprise she was offered a degree course in Mental Health Nursing which required on site training, study days and remote working. This was in parallel with her community role. She started that in Autumn 2019 and it became clear that her time working on wards would involve an 80 mile round trip with some pretty unsocial hours. So we decided to put the caravan on a seasonal pitch for 2020. But Covid cropped up and the fees were refunded before the pitch was even used. We thought about selling it in June last year and Swindon caravans offered us £7000. But given the covid hiatus we decided it could be the only means of a holiday and had four trips away between July and November.
The first trip this year was to Yorkshire and to say that the weather wasn’t great would be an understatement. Also the dogs had picked up a bug and had colitis. Not great getting up at 0500 and sleeping in your day clothes ☹ I had previously booked a mid year damp check and on our return the results were okay despite being used and towed in wet cold weather. I then took our granddaughter and her friend to the Forest of Dean as she’d had a pretty disappointing 12 months. The weather was great and the Cadac was used every day. So my wife and I discussed our options and came to the conclusion that with the dogs getting older and our commitments for 2021-22 we would sell the caravan.
The advertisement went onto Autotrader last Thursday morning at around 0900 and ten minutes later the first call came in. A trader offered £8 k after seeing the damp report and could pick it up next day. Two more came in with similar offers very quickly afterwards. A private buyer then rang at 1020, then travelled from Cardiff to view it and by 1500 the caravan and all of its kit was sold. A record?
What do we do next?
Our first forays were short stays in local sites, with Scotland being the longer summer trip. Not a howling success with appalling ing weather and midges, so we ran south to Northumberland which at least was drier and midge-less. Then our daughter was offered a two year NHS funded Foundation degree in integrated mental health and social care. This was a pilot course set up in anticipation of changes to the way health and care were expected to go when the Government had made its decision. ( still waiting on that one). So we all agreed that it could work.
2018 started okay and we had organised a long trip to Luxembourg, Germany and France but a week before setting off my father took ill and until July 2019 I spent long periods in Leicester, at time taking the caravan up there. In between time we had moved house to be closer to our daughter as we were doing lots of commuting and late nights. Our holiday in Suffolk that autumn was cancelled as my BIL fell ill and we were up and down to Coventry. Our daughter graduated, and then surprise, surprise she was offered a degree course in Mental Health Nursing which required on site training, study days and remote working. This was in parallel with her community role. She started that in Autumn 2019 and it became clear that her time working on wards would involve an 80 mile round trip with some pretty unsocial hours. So we decided to put the caravan on a seasonal pitch for 2020. But Covid cropped up and the fees were refunded before the pitch was even used. We thought about selling it in June last year and Swindon caravans offered us £7000. But given the covid hiatus we decided it could be the only means of a holiday and had four trips away between July and November.
The first trip this year was to Yorkshire and to say that the weather wasn’t great would be an understatement. Also the dogs had picked up a bug and had colitis. Not great getting up at 0500 and sleeping in your day clothes ☹ I had previously booked a mid year damp check and on our return the results were okay despite being used and towed in wet cold weather. I then took our granddaughter and her friend to the Forest of Dean as she’d had a pretty disappointing 12 months. The weather was great and the Cadac was used every day. So my wife and I discussed our options and came to the conclusion that with the dogs getting older and our commitments for 2021-22 we would sell the caravan.
The advertisement went onto Autotrader last Thursday morning at around 0900 and ten minutes later the first call came in. A trader offered £8 k after seeing the damp report and could pick it up next day. Two more came in with similar offers very quickly afterwards. A private buyer then rang at 1020, then travelled from Cardiff to view it and by 1500 the caravan and all of its kit was sold. A record?
What do we do next?
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