New beginnings

First got used to holiday with my first wife in a tent and eventually worked up to a caravan,then when the marriage ended I met my second wife who's ex husband was a caravanner.Bliss...we bought a caravan and since then have worked up to our third van,we love it and this coming Christmas I am taking V.R  then we intend to try a new site.......it's called europe and all the time in the world to enjoy our van.

pete

This year hubby and I decided to "make better use of our caravan". He is semi retired now and we have time. My 2 little yorkie terriers love our jaunts round about. We are just about to go on our first big holiday and another big one is already booked for September. Sadly we have to leave our two cats out of our hols. Unless anyone knows how to take the cats with us too!!

I am another newbie to caravanning.  My husband & I used to B&B for our holidays, moving on each day to see as much as possible. Sadly, he died 2 years ago, and I have not been away, didn't fancy B&B on my own.  My solution was my first caravan, an Avondale Dart, at the age of 67!   After a short stay on a site local to the dealer, to get used to the set-up and make sure that everything worked OK, I towed it home 30 miles up the M1, so that was an experience in itself, but not at all as bad as I thought it would be.  I am off on my first trip next week to Bury St Edmunds, and like someone else said, a bit nervous about making a fool of myself when unhitching etc.  I also have a motor mover, and I can already say that it is a godsend.  I am eagerly looking to see where to go next.  Wish me luck

I dont want to sound sexist but ladies please leave the towing to the men . Ive just watched a woman trying to reverse FROM a parking space not into one and it was quite bewildering.

I definitely disagree with the last statement.  I tow all the time and I am female.  I have been on the caravanning course and have caravanned most of my life.  Please do not make sweeping generalisations - I have seen men making just as much, if not more, of a mess of things than women. 

I also tow my bailey caravan is comical as the looks we get from other motorists when they see little old me behind the wheel and my husband 6ft plus and ???stone in the passenger seat! who says a woman cant tow a caravan!!!

Oh, how I envy you ladies who tow.  I am such a woos and the thought of driving on the motorway just terrifies me and so that precludes me from towing the van.  I keep thinking about it and then I get too worried.  I don't know why it scares me, but it does.  We have a big Landrover Discovery which I love to drive but the thought of towing just gives me the jitters.  Well done all you ladies. Keep on towing I say

My wife is a excellent driver, and in the past has towed caravans we previously owned, but now theres just the two of us caravanning she leaves it to me. I have asked her to take over the wheel while towing but to no avail hopefully one day she will .so i can relax before getting on site and putting up the awning sheer bliss

My wife does not tow. But she is an excelent navigator, and when we arrive on site (and are preparing to hook up to leave) I trust her manouverig instructions  She knows just when to being turning or staighten up and can guide me to withing 2cm (!/2 inch) of the tow hook.

I cannot see where the front or rear bumpers are & when parking close to a wall will stop me within 1 inch (25mm)

Well after 40 years of caravanning and 50 years of wedded bliss camping and as husband & Wife; I suppose that you learn how to do things together

I also sleep well in the caravan. Sometimes with the change in air too well. 

I normally sleep 6.5 to 7 hours (ideally 7 hours). When we went to Southport for 10 days last Christmas on the first day I slept for 2 hours after tea - not something I would normally do. I then went to bed about 10.30 and woke up about 8am. 11.5 hours sleep. Next day 9.5 hourd and 3rd day 8 hourd. By the 4th day back to my normal 7 hours. 

The same thing happens in the Highlands and a few other areas.

 

Well I didnt see you there were you in disguise ? rain it did, windy it was, caught the flu we did !