Thank you Claire for your very nice welcome, we've been on a few camping trips and we have booked to stay at a site called Mill Farm, we have stayed there before camping so I'm hoping we'll enjoy. I like the idea of having running warm water and a toliet !!!!
We pick up a 2008 caravan on Friday having worked our way up from a tent (complete with wee bucket and lid)...folding camper (oh the joys of having a sink AND running water, even if it was a foot pump on the floor :) to our first caravan 3 yrs ago...the bliss of having a proper loo with pump handle flush!
Now our new one has the modern electric flush, and I amaze myself that I can get so excited about it! haha.
Where abouts are you located Mark?
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
Hello welcome to the forum,I also don't know much about vans,if it looks ok to you then it will be fine, we have not had our van long and did do a bit of camping,I love caraving it is so much easier than tenting and warmer.more expensive though.If you need any help there is lots of lovely people on here that have lots of experiance that will help.
yes claire i know what you mean, we've got the pump amd turn toilet flush, havnt used it yet though, or added cemicals to it either, i like the water at the taps and hot water and heating too. its like heaven compared to the tent. from south wales by the way, up the Rhondda valleys.
Quote: Originally posted by stocky13 on 15/8/2011
Hello welcome to the forum,I also don't know much about vans,if it looks ok to you then it will be fine, we have not had our van long and did do a bit of camping,I love caraving it is so much easier than tenting and warmer.more expensive though.If you need any help there is lots of lovely people on here that have lots of experiance that will help.
cheers for your welcome stocky13, i might need some help soon to get a few things sorted, its just hetting to know where to get thing from etc, so much to learn.
Ooh well I'm up in Mid-Wales. Nice site for you to try out that isn't too much of a drive is Fforest Fields near Builth Wells. Just pop 'Fforest Fields' in the search read some of the comments or see the review here
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
welcome to the forum & hope you enjoy your van, we started vanning in 1975 & still enjoy every trip, our first van was about 15yrs old with gas lights foot pump for water & used a toilet tent, now new van, end bathroom fixed bed hot & cold running water & more what a difference, any way have some good trips & enjoy what ever the weather?
hi welcome,we are as new as you , but addicted to this site already lol, we have just retired and got our 1st caravan a 1994 abbey solitaire 1 owner before us and i love it , but got to wait till sept to go away. 3rd time lucky fingers crossed , long story .you will find loads of tips and advice on here,everyone is helpful. we are from the valleys not far from pontypool, happy caravaning,
Welcome, I hope you will find lots of useful information on here, there is always someone who can help with all queries, and if it's nothing to do with caravanning, then post in the General section.
for my hubby after we got our 1st caravan 2 yrs ago, a 1994 Elddis only 3rd owner, we love it having had a TT for 5yrs and tents for the previous 7yrs before, just to get away from the damp canvas feeling and have all the comforts of home.
Does work out a lot more expensive than camping but as OH points out, it's so much cheaper than going abroad.
------------- "Close your eyes and pretend it's all a dream, that's how I get by"
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