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hi beverley, welcome to the world of caravan's, you definitely won't be the poor relations at all ,see here  crappy thread,.

our tin tent is a 1992 model, still, dry, still cosy, still a home from home

as for gear everyones needs / wants are different but if there's one piece of kit we're almost all agreed on when it comes to essentials is a good tin opener, prefrably one with a bottle opener .

as for sterilising the water pipes, i just mix up a solution of sterilising fluid ( the same stuff you sterilise babies bottles with) and water in a water barrel, hook it up to the 'van as normal and then i ,run the taps to get the fluid into the pipes , i then leave it for a while before flushing out with fresh water. thats how i do it anyway, someone else will have a different method

am sure you'll enjoy every minute

Quote: Originally posted by beverley567901 on 15/4/2013

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Thank you realbusdriver I like the crappy thread. It seems silly to spend thousands when we might hate the whole concept, if we love it we can upgrade with an informed mind .

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 thats exactly what we did  bev', when we moved from tents to caravan's, our 1 st 'van was a little 2 berth avondale orestes ( about 20yrs old when we got her) bought her for just over £300.00 to 'test the water' caravan wise, we both loved it ( i knew we would )

used that for about 3 yrs, my OH then decided she'd like a little more space ,so we sold the avondale ( got £200 more than we paid for it) the proceeds of which part funded our latest 'van ( a slightly larger, swift corniche 15/2 ,again 20+ yrs old) ,for which we paid the princely sum of £600

we'd love a nice, shiney, brand spanking new caravan but at present funds don't run to it and as we both work full time our tin tent is in storage more than its on a site so it would be a bit silly , for us at least, to spend thousands on a caravan for it to stand unused most of the year.

now when we retire, that could be a very different story....