Woodland Springs Touring Park is set in a lovely setting just off the A30, Exeter to Okehampton road, at the village of Whiddon Down. It is a well-presented and maintained adult-only campsite on the borders of Dartmoor National Park. Woodlandspring.co.uk Overall Rating 4/5 Pros Cons Very well presented and maintained. Excellent facilities. A tranquil …
Introduction This rally, set to take place in the Lot in France has been a long time coming owing to the postponement in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. We hope that June 2022 will enable us to finally host this much-awaited and talked-about rally. To host the rally we are teaming up …
The first question anyone might ask is ‘Why fit a tracker to your caravan’? In fact, this is a question that I have struggled with for some time. My Eriba is either parked outside my front door, or we are away in it, other than those times we are on long-haul vacations. Therefore I have …
The Government has issued its roadmap to help guide us out of the current lockdown and back to some sort of normality. How is that going to affect the return to caravanning for those of us who delight in this activity? Here are the key dates and what they could mean for us all. Please …
On your travels with your Eriba undoubtedly at some point, you will find quality fresh fish on market stalls, fish shops, or being sold on the quayside of fishing ports. You might be lucky enough to have a good wet fish shop near to where you live, as I do with the Fishwife. It was here …
Most of us have vans with a leisure battery installed and it is always nice to know it’s condition as this will usually forewarn us of any pending failure. Types of battery meter There are many cheap voltmeters available to order online and some come already integrated with USB sockets. The most basic meters use …
A series of posts for those of us at a loose end in these troubled times, particularly folks suffering with lockdown doldrums. A few months after buying my 2018 Troll 540GT I decided that I would like to change a few things. Why? Well, either I believed the Hymer solution was not up to the …
Now that the UK has left the EU, how does that effect traveling into Europe.
I thought, with my recent posts on the future of caravanning it was only fair to look at Hymer’s latest addition to the Eriba Touring range and particularly at the eco-credentials of the 820. There is no doubt that this latest addition is not going to attract those who are working on a budget and …
In my previous post ‘The Last Generation of Touring Caravans’, I started a debate about the touring future of caravans. This was with reference to the UK Government’s intention to cease the sale of conventional petrol and diesel engines vehicles in 2030. In the subsequent post, I looked at the technology and the challenges ahead …