Daily mileage when touring

Posted on 22/01/2020 10:07 by Tinwheeler

They are all sensible options, JV. It’s some of the owners who aren’t. 😛

Posted on 22/01/2020 10:34 by Takethedogalong

Very like us then😁 We know certain parts of Cornwall very well, explored all the tiny little roads, hidden coves, picture book villages over 36 years of spending months each year down there. There are still areas we aren’t too familiar with though, mainly the North Eastern coastal area. Had a look at your new outfit, it is longer and wider than ours, and there are places we don’t take the MH, you will know some of the lanes will brush the wing mirrors on a car let alone an MH! But we still enjoyed a lovely three week tour down there a couple of years ago. 

Once you get into Devon and Cornwall, you will have to pick your roads to use, but with a bit of preplanning you won’t struggle too much. Incidentally, long way if you are IOW based, but Northumberland and Borders are fabulous for touring with an MH. And Yorkshire🥰

One of my dream’s was to take an old London bus and convert it into a camper. Top deck for a sitting out area of course😁, roof off. 

Posted on 22/01/2020 09:40 by JVB66

It was not so much "excited"as you realizing that you now  agree despite what it seems in all your previos posts the your mode of LV was "the way to go"  but then as we have had a PVC  as our first motor  Caravan ,an AS Symbol and have said previously we may  well have another in the future, as you now admit they or a caravan would be your choice if as so many now do only tour in the UK, so from me, thanks for seeing what is already common knowledge for the many how the UK touring type of LV is the sensible option

Posted on 22/01/2020 15:59 by young thomas

if you'd been paying attention you would know that 'my mode of MH' has pretty much the same footprint as the XLWB Ducato PVC's.

'i' dont need a PVC as i have (effectively, from a size perspective) already got one....

however, a PVC of the same footprint would actually be less roomy inside, would be less well insulated, would lack the double floor insulation and storage, would be well short of our other storage requirements (large bike garage), would be lacking in the fresh/waste capacity, would be short of roof space for our 'gadgets', wouldn't have two permanent double beds, would be lacking the large A-class cab and many, many more differences...

so, I'm sure our van is the 'way to go'....for us....which is why we bought it.

 

 

Posted on 22/01/2020 16:19 by cyberyacht

I'm still dreaming about a Carthago. My present Majestic has a number  of the attributes that your Carthago has, again on a PVC footprint. I think my Majestic's conspiring against me being able to afford the change though as I'm having to spend four hundred quid on sorting the Airbag ECU on it. 

Posted on 22/01/2020 10:34 by Takethedogalong

Very like us then😁 We know certain parts of Cornwall very well, explored all the tiny little roads, hidden coves, picture book villages over 36 years of spending months each year down there. There are still areas we aren’t too familiar with though, mainly the North Eastern coastal area. Had a look at your new outfit, it is longer and wider than ours, and there are places we don’t take the MH, you will know some of the lanes will brush the wing mirrors on a car let alone an MH! But we still enjoyed a lovely three week tour down there a couple of years ago. 

Once you get into Devon and Cornwall, you will have to pick your roads to use, but with a bit of preplanning you won’t struggle too much. Incidentally, long way if you are IOW based, but Northumberland and Borders are fabulous for touring with an MH. And Yorkshire🥰

One of my dream’s was to take an old London bus and convert it into a camper. Top deck for a sitting out area of course😁, roof off. 

Posted on 23/01/2020 22:22 by Kasspa

I'm Bedfordshire based & have a daughter in West Yorks so nowhere is 'out of bounds' for us.....

I have looked in handbook when booking sites to check for routes that are not suitable for MH v suggestions of Google maps....

Would you know if the B3306 through St Just & St Ives is worth doing when leaving Lands End en route to Tintagel instead of going straight up A30 as it follows the coast around that point?

Any suggestions welcomed, thanks.