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Hi Everyone

After putting up a old topic----What Do You Hate About Caravanning-----l decided

let's have the opposite What Do You Love About Caravanning 

1.Love meeting other caravanners from all walks of life. Making new Friends

2.Deciding where to book for main summer holiday and driving to a site never been to before.

3.When the time comes to change van for a new one, deciding which layout etc.(our latest is a new Elddis Super Cyclone only had it few weeks)

4.Believe or not l love after washing caravan polishing my van to high gloss finish

l could go on with more joys of caravanning.

What are your replies? 

we turned to caravanning after a few years of tenting ( OH decided we were too old to be sleeping on the floor)

some of the reasons we love our 'van are....

  A/ a proper bed, no more wobbly camp beds or inflatable beds to get punctured.

  B/ solid wall's as opposed to wobbly one's,handy when it's windy

  C/ hot and cold running water on tap, not an option in any of the tents we had

  D/ our own toilet, no more trekking across sites at midnight in our pj's

  E/ once on site, corner stedies  down , gas and leccy on, kettle on ,rest can wait

as well as all the other reasons listed by you bob .tony

watching people set up/pack away. you learn so much and laugh so much. great fun.

but mostly we enjoy the different locations and ever changeing views you get from all the location we visit through the year.

also, when you find yourself doing all the stereotypical things that caravnners do and say.. makes me shake my head and chuckle to myself..

and meeting other people from a vast aray of back grounds very interesting/funny/boring/outragouse/normal.....

and lots of other things

Quote: Originally posted by agde on 03/3/2013

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watching people set up/pack away. you learn so much and laugh so much. great fun.

but mostly we enjoy the different locations and ever changeing views you get from all the location we visit through the year.

also, when you find yourself doing all the stereotypical things that caravnners do and say.. makes me shake my head and chuckle to myself..

and meeting other people from a vast aray of back grounds very interesting/funny/boring/outragouse/normal.....

and lots of other things

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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NORMAL = AVERAGE. average people,  you know nice people. not mad and not boring. just middle of the roadish. NICE PEOPLE. people you can spend time with

i think,, erm,, hard to say.              wish i had'nt said NORMAL now..

After 15 years away we are returning to caravanning. Before it was just a cheap way of having a holiday with a young family. We bought our original van 2nd hand in 1986, new cushions and upholstery, new curtains, it did us for 10 year. We sold it for the same price we bought it! No great love affair!

Now......now I know what I love about caravanning, or am going to love. We have been tenting for the past few years and no sooner do we get pitched that we start watching the end of week weather to see if we are going to be able to stay the whole week or need to de-pitch early if inclement weather is approaching. We will put the tent up in the rain and down, but it's a nightmare if it's windy. Out polycotton tent could lift us both off the ground if caught by a gust of wind while not pegged down.

All of the above for me too, however one of the things I enjoy is Bank Holidays and our trips to France in the summer  with the van. Our 3 daughters all who grew up with loving caravanning and all their trips away with us, now enjoy us all being together for a day or two over the bank holidays, just so they can 'be on site with the caravan' and relive being away with the caravan experience. My daughters now 21, 24 and 32  with the husbands and boyfriends including the two grandchildren all come along for a family day together and we can be in Norwich or the  New Forest. Some stay in the van /awning with us, some at a local nearby hotel. I know those treasured family days centre around their love of caravanning and the fun of being on site.