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Personbluediverboy
09/8/2014 at 10:45am
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Hi All,

I'd like to hear other people's experience of leaving/returning. Our kids are well into the mid teenage years with all the fun that brings.

Our plan is to let our Sprite go and take a break for 3 years, then come back buy a much shiny newer van for us to do some more touring.

Talked to our storage place and they said they always have a few places but that has been my main worry getting another storage location!

Have people done a similar thing?


Personbrianconwy
09/8/2014 at 10:54am
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Our daughter is 14 and my grand-daughter is 12. They came with us this summer but it isn't the great experience it used to be. When they were younger they would go out to the play area make new friends. Now they just mope around the van with their tablets.

We are going away August bank holiday - just the two of us. We had thought whether we should sell the van but we enjoy it. In the future we may have one family holiday a year ( package to suit my daughter and then just go away in the van the rest of the year - just us.


Personmillermicm
09/8/2014 at 11:49am
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Why worry about what you are going to do in 3 years time. If it's not currently working for you then get rid and save the depreciation, storage, servicing etc.

If you do feel like it in 3 years then go & buy a van.

We gave up 20 odd years ago. Didn't miss it for 15 years. Now given up again & enjoying foreign winter breaks in the Canaries.

Who knows what we may be doing in 3 years.

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Personbluediverboy
09/8/2014 at 1:46pm
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I'm probably over thinking this as you point out Steve.


PersonCampernic
09/8/2014 at 2:39pm
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Sell the van, keep your chairs. Buy a stand up height easy to pitch tent (no worse than your awning) and a decent bed set up and off you go just the two of you if you feel like it, and ship the moody youngsters off to willing relatives.

I've got my two kids to 17 and 18. This last three or four years have made holidaying difficult, due to strops, hormones and unwillingness to run off and play football/make friends/do anything other than moan. This year I feel we have recently had our last family 'main' holiday until they are much older at least and maybe have families on their own. I am widowed so there is just me - and I do have the very occasional weekend away on my own with just my dog for company. It is quite blissful to be able to just suit myself.

I love my kids to bits and would do anything for them but teenagers are a challenge.


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Personkimmie
09/8/2014 at 10:32pm
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Never used to get the teenage sulks. Always went to a site where the boys met up with friends.

Most families returned there year after year so kids could meet up, happy kids happy parents.

Had no trouble getting kids to come until the site closed down. Now we are static van hirers due to health issues and they are coming with partners and pets. Have to have a larger van just in case. Never kniw who will turn up.

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Personbrianconwy
09/8/2014 at 11:49pm
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The problem is partly down to feeling that other kids are getting a better deal by jetting off to resorts. We did all this when she was young. It was ok at the time but these med resorts start to feel alike. There are so many british themed bars in some of them that you could be anywhere.


VangoMan02
10/8/2014 at 9:36am
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Quote: Originally posted by bluediverboy on 09/8/2014
Hi All,

I'd like to hear other people's experience of leaving/returning. Our kids are well into the mid teenage years with all the fun that brings.

Our plan is to let our Sprite go and take a break for 3 years, then come back buy a much shiny newer van for us to do some more touring.

Talked to our storage place and they said they always have a few places but that has been my main worry getting another storage location!

Have people done a similar thing?


We went through similar thoughts as yourself. We have been caravanning since I was 21 yrs old (62 now)and most years we had 2 weeks abroad and several breaks in the caravan as a family.
We also enjoyed tent camping, so I suppose we all had the best of both worlds.

When our children got to the teenage years and my wife and I were both working 12 hr shifts for a good few years, we found we were not using the caravan as often as we would like, so we sold it and had a break from caravanning for a couple of years and continued to go abroad.

Then realised how much we missed the caravan and bought another and can't imagine not caravanning for as long as we are able but also think the break was a good idea at that time.
We still go abroad but use the caravan often.

Thing is.. for all the holidays abroad the ones the children (now adults with children of their own) remember fondly are the camping and caravanning holidays ..as we do.



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