What do you use your caravan for?

i hope iam on the right page i have just joined this morning after buying our first motorhome last week.we are travelling to north wales at easter and are looking for a stopover in shropshire anybody reccommend a good site there thanks geoff

we go away every month in our caravan, booked in at sites up and down the country, nothing like getting the cadac out and doing the breakfast on it even in the rain - my wife is quite pleased too!

Love the car. Must have cost a bit to get into that condition.

We  were at Brooklands a couple of years back on Bentley day, as it happened. My grandson was permitted to sit in a 3 litre which was of indeterminate value, but the last one auctioned went for £425000!

Can anyone suggest a reasonably affordable classic car? Maybe convertible Rapier or Alpine?

Also, are there any special interest groups within the Caravan Club?

We simply use our van to get away from the everyday stresses and strains of a working life in the city and on the road up and down motorways to take relaxing breaks for that little bit of peace and quiet I'm sure most of us crave for and find it a very useful mobile-home away from home. We do attend many events around the uk so not unlike us to travel to North of England for a few days if we can get the time off. Our unit is large enough to take/sleep 6 people and our grandaughter loves it. When our children were younger we used to caravan and found it more useful to have a car to go out for the day but now it's mainly the two of us a motorhome suits us better particularly as we also do a lot of touring abroad France, Spain and Portugal mainly and are in the process of planning a 9 country tour late summer/autumn something which we probably wouldn't have done with a caravan. Happy vanning (& trailer tenting!) whatever your preference.

Our caravan gets used for many things, some of which I have already contributed stories about.

We obviously have our holidays, then there are festivals throughout the summer, mainly Folk festivals, but also Festival at the Edge (on Wenlock Edge), and we have also been away to kite Festivals where it (well, the awning mainly) becomes the base for the kite display team I am a member of -  Sky Symphony 

Also, although having been based in Birmingham, Sarah has had to deliver training courses across the country at times, so she usually arranged 3 or 4 in the same area (such as Newcastle) on consecutive days, or either side of a weekend, so we could actually get away in the caravan and make use of that weekend and days away and have expenses paid for!

Further, it has been used by a photographer for a photoshoot (see story), and also for our local Carnival as the control point and Treasurers 'counting house' (another story)!

We bought our first caravan to transport my model railway to exhibitions. It served as a van for transport then accomodation during the overnight stay.And we had many great evenings with the clubs that we would have missed if we commuted back and forth.

Well, we live in our van in Australia - we are termed 'Grey Nomads" and since we retired we have travelled and worked occasionally - mainly remote stations that need some help due to illness or some other disaster. 

We are now doing something similar with our English van but on a much smaller scale.  We plan to come to England every other year for as long as we can manage it, and this year we are travelling around France and the UK.

However, when it's not being towed, the English van is used for storage!  We use a small lockup when we are travelling and then when we head back to Australia we put everything into the van.  Sounds daft but the lockup costs 8 pounds a week and the caravan storage is 6 pounds a week!

Well, ours gets used for the usual weekends away and holidays, but also as accommodation when I am firing Steam Locomotives on the Llangollen Railway and there is a gala on - next one is Stem Steel and Stars, 21-29 April 2012 - hoping to get my hands on Brittania, or even maybe a turn on Tornado.

Having caravanned for more years than I care to remember it's amazing how the hobby adjusts itself to whatever lifestyle just happens to be in vogue at the time.

We have always used the 'van for main summer holidays both in the UK and abroad but whilst we used to rally very regularly, initially with the South Staffs and eventually with West Wales, it was only when SWMBO and I started playing golf during the last ten years that we found a new lease of life for the old girl (van not SWMBO).

We play a large number of "Open" golf competitions and having the 'van means we can venture much farther from home without the high cost of hotels etc. Additionally we now get to explore places that without the complimentary activities of caravanning and golf we would never have seen.

The beauty of caravanning I guess is that whatever you want it to be, it is!

We go on holiday for a week every month of the year in the UK.

We use it as a base for conducting family history research and to explore and photograph the natural history of the country