What are you all up to

Very frosty start to the day when out with Rosa,we decided that as weather not looking good for tommorow morning (at least)to cancel Commons wood and come to Seacroft a day early,good journey with Sun all the way,only "problem"when stopping at the Brandon turn on A11 for OH to have comfort stop there is no where in the services to park up so just joined the line of HGVs stopped on the double yellow lined access to car park

Nice 

How are you getting on with the MH ? funny how you went 1 way and we the other.

We are looking at where to go next year with the caravan, got a fancy for Austria and Italy, haven't done either in about 30 years. Not sure if we will get away in the van for awhile as we have a lot on, maybe early December for a week or so if we are not snowed in 

TTDA glad you got back home safe and sound after a good trip. We can travel all the way back from France without a hitch, then we get to 50 miles from home (Edinburgh) and grind to a crawl  

Waiting for a reply from a CL owner this afternoon for a quick 5 nights away from Friday when MIL rings from her Wednesday club. I don't mind taking her and 3 of her friends to the Crematorium to pay their last respects to a dear friend recently departed, do I? Course not I replied. When is it? Monday! Oh well there's always another time.

So rang my cousin to meet up for a bite to eat on Tuesday lunchtime.

Glad you had an enjoyable break Ttda. Funnily enough we were heading off to Warwick area. 

Fingers crossed Millie.

It's certainly been one of those years for changing your plans, WN. Enjoy your lunchtime meet.

We completely changed our first long break this year. SW was so busy we opted to head North instead and had a great time in Northumberland and Scotland. But it’s been a great two and a half weeks away lately. Fabulous weather, we have been very lucky.

Last night was the coldest we've had this autumn trip, -3.1C. Water was frozen at the tap although it was lagged. Sun came out about 8:30 and the water was soon running, so we managed to get a round of washing done. Pleasant walk along the canal from the site, although it was a bit chilly when the sun went in. Saw 2 more Kingfishers during our walk. Last night here near Trowbridge before heading up to Pardon Hill tomorrow.

Will have to spend the time planning for future outings and Next Year.

You'll be getting ahead of your self there, won't you? We've not decided where we're heading after our next site on this trip yet!!

We've had the MH just over a year now and we are glad we made the switch. It is just so much less hassle getting it on and off the driveway. Quicker to set up when arriving on a site, far more flexible when it comes to touring. The slight loss of living space is the only real downside. Whether the novelty will wear off after a couple of years remains to be seen.

Would agree with some of those comments CY. 

We had our MH for 6 years. No issues with parking it at home, setting up on arrival we've not found it to be that much different to be honest due to division of labour  The loss of space for us didn't happen as the MH and caravan are of equal size, although the bathroom in the caravan has more space due to the layout. 

Flexibility - we find we have more with the caravan once on site as we have the car to visit further afield. OH never liked moving the van for the day to go somewhere and while we did try visiting things on the way to our next stop it was a bit of a hit and miss.

The biggest downfall we think with the caravan is the lack of sites in France after the end of September, while the MH's can stay out longer and use the many Aires. We never did use aires but it was always there as a backup should we need to. Just need to plan a bit more with a caravan.

All in all this last trip we found to be more relaxing, we still use the bikes but now they are for fun, rather than a means of transport. Like you said maybe the novelty will wear off in a few trips, especially if we get bad weather. 

We have discussed what next and as it stands just now it will be a PVC, can't believe that we are even thinking about one as its not long ago we both agreed we would not go there. 

Apologies for going off thread.