After a few years of family tenting we have recently picked up a 2014 Bailey Pegasus GT65 Rimini. The final straw was camping in a tent last August through storm Francis - we were proud that the tent survived, largely intact (this was not the case for several other campers), but looked enviously at the warm, dry caravanners and decided that was for us. Of course lockdown(s) got in the way but gave time for research and on the stroke of opening time on the day lockdown ended we were at our local dealer looking at the van we had spotted on their website. This is the one we now have parked on the drive.
Our first time away is the coming half-term week (from B/H Monday) in Devon. We are, of course, fretting about not being ready, about not knowing how to do it, about making mistakes and all that but, hopefully, we'll get through it and on to the next ones (so far booked: a two week, two-site tour of Devon and Dorset in July and a weekend away with motorhoming friends in the Cotswolds in August).
I have a million questions, all of which elude me at the moment but I'll be back when they come to me. The tug is a Volvo XC40 T4 AWD Auto which coped very well on the 20 mile journey home. I have some past experience towing horse trailers so feel fairly confident with the caravan, but it is wider than a horse trailer.
Our first time away is the coming half-term week (from B/H Monday) in Devon. We are, of course, fretting about not being ready, about not knowing how to do it, about making mistakes and all that but, hopefully, we'll get through it and on to the next ones (so far booked: a two week, two-site tour of Devon and Dorset in July and a weekend away with motorhoming friends in the Cotswolds in August).
I have a million questions, all of which elude me at the moment but I'll be back when they come to me. The tug is a Volvo XC40 T4 AWD Auto which coped very well on the 20 mile journey home. I have some past experience towing horse trailers so feel fairly confident with the caravan, but it is wider than a horse trailer.