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:funny: Great thread with some entertaining comments. After 6 pages if this had been a different forum, world war 3 would have broken out by now:funny:


It's 25 years since I owned a touring caravan but we had a succession of them for many years when the kids were young and we all loved the experience. I was lucky enough to be able to store at home and it was used at least once a month for weekends at a minutes notice. A short drive to the Scottish borders relaxing couple of days fishing, reading, sight seeing and the kids playing happy, healthy and safe outdoors. Good for them and us after a hard week at work!

It's not a cheap holiday, caravans are expensive especially when all the add ons are counted up and you need a decent vehicle to tow with. It is definitely a way of life and what's wrong with that. I use hotels now but always self catering or b&b as I like to choose where I eat.


I wouldn't do it now, too many idiots on the road and far too busy but I'd throw in the comment that many of the big hold ups on the roads that I see are not directly caused by the caravan but by the slow moving lorry, tractor or more often the little old lady or gent doing 30mph in front of it. I see it now every day without a caravan in sight and it drives me nuts:vangry:


Modern cars and caravans have little problem maintaining 60mph on our single carriageway "A" roads and as long as they do so the only people they hold up are speedsters so they are helping the police to enforce the speed limits maybe?:whistling:


I was a regional manager for a number of years with the second largest manufacturer in the UK and in those days vans were overweight and manufactured like model aircraft, not these days, technology has moved on. There always will of course be clueless idiots who hitch up and drive off but isn't that the case with everything.


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