I got my trailer tent out yesteday ready to trade in for the new caravan, thought i would make sure it was well after the winter in the garage. When i opened it up the smell of canvas was fantastic, i even got the sunday paper a couple of cushions and laid down and read for an hour. I hope our new caravan has a distinct smell that reminds me of holidays.
------------- Graeme
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Aug 2012 - La Chant D
Why do you only get that smell when you open up the caravan from being stored/unused?
Once you have it in use, you can return to your closed-up caravan having been out all day - no smell! Put it away after use and the next time you open the door - the lovely caravan smell is back.
So where does the smell go when you are on holiday eh???
Quote: Originally posted by Ulti-Mates on 06/4/2009
Why do you only get that smell when you open up the caravan from being stored/unused?
Once you have it in use, you can return to your closed-up caravan having been out all day - no smell! Put it away after use and the next time you open the door - the lovely caravan smell is back.
So where does the smell go when you are on holiday eh???
LOL I don't know, but it sure is nice while it lasts!!!
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
Hubby had to stop me taking my duvet in last night and kipping in it on the driveway hehe (mind you, the kids were driving me scatty and it seemed like the only place to get some peace =)
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
Claire - how funny you should post about the 'caravan smell'. Both of us love the smell in our van - and the strange thing is that the current one smells exactly like the old one! My youngest son helped me take some stuff up to the van a week or two ago, and he also commented about the smell reminding him of holidays.
I don't agree, though, that you can't smell it whilst you're away. We can - especially if we've been out for the whole day. It's a sort of warm, cosy, sweet smell. Mr Val A now butts in, cynically, and says - 'Perhaps what we're all smelling is just the blue or pink toilet fluid!!!!'. I like to think not!
Our van has a unique smell too.. Can't put my finger on it, but it is only 2 year old and I still think there is a newness smell about it and wood. I love to go out on a sunday afternoon and have a cup of tea in the van, especially if the sun is shining in. The neighbours must them we're mad, but only another caravanner would understand!
Wendy
------------- Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends...
George Bernard Shaw
Claire - I know what you mean our caravan has a lovely caravanny sort of smell too especially when we first go in it after it has been in storage for a while. The smell soon disappears after hubby gets in though!!
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Topic: I love the smell of my caravan!
