Reasons for taking up caravanning

Brilliant, nearly spill'ed me tea laughing 

Oh soooo bang on with her observations. Get the PC Mag editors to offer her half a page each month on her experiences ...could open a whole new outlook on the hobby.

We've given her a page of website to start with. And anyway, there are plenty of you on here who would never read her stuff if it was in the magazine! Not everyone is a magazine reader. 

Seriously though, glad you enjoyed Suzanne's piece. We have a few more pieces from her ready to send live over the coming weeks. She is registered on the site as Snufflesmcbaby but has not, as yet, appeared on the forum. I'll tell her she has a fan club and maybe she'll pop by...

jolly good fun!

Thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed my blog. As Nigel says, there's more to come over the coming weeks and hopefully my caravanning experiences and many mishaps will strike a chord with some of you. Surely we've all ended up on a French industrial estate/ red light district whilst looking for Disneyland Paris...

Great article, by the way!  Loved it.

We ended up in a cul-de-sac on an industrial estate in Aix en Provence - and already there was a British caravan.  We turned around, so did he, and then we found a 'short-cut' across country to avoid going back the way we came.  He followed us, and we were both a bit surprised by the VERY narrow bridge, and then the equally narrow village street with the foot high kerbs at either side!  When we got to the other side of the village, they removed the barriers!!!! for us (there was no way we could go back) and there was a procession led by a donkey going down the hill, and we had no alternative but to follow very slowly downhill!  At the bottom we both stopped for a bit of a 'Phew that was tough going' - and he got out to say we had looked so confident going out of the industrial estate, that he followed us, but had learned his lesson and wouldn't be following anyone else in future!

Had a good chuckle reading this! We too were treated with a degree of bewildament by family and friends when we showed off our first caravan. I think some people still think Caravans have gas lights manual water pumps and a bucket outside to relieve yourself in! Amazing the transformation that happens when they see microwave fridge/freezer Alde heating and dvd surround sound! A number of my my friends quite surprisingly have now followed suite but its the lifestyle that appeals to them most!

Jim

ha! this is just soooo true! brilliant.

I'll look forward to reading more from Suzanne Asquith. I wonder if she's Victoria Wood in disguise? 

Really enjoyed this too - made me laugh out loud!  Perhaps I shouldn't admit to you all that I thought a 3 way tv that we recently bought ran on gas (CRINGE) ... well I didn't know did I???