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got fed up with digs while working away and got the chance of buying a 20 odd year old very good condition 2 birth caravan so thought i would give it a go. that was three years ago after up grading twice. as they say the rest is history.

 when we were first married my parents lent us their caravan, it had a box outside for the water container nothing else the food was kept in a sealed box under the van we called it our fridge. we didnt have a car they just left us for a week it was great but neither of us could drive and we had no car. 

 then a few years later, plus a car we were staying in a b&b near tenby and my nephew and wife were camping in their tent near by. we went to visit them and were so jealous of their relaxed freedom, yet they said they felt the same about us.  when i was expecting my second baby i said lets buy a tent. my mother was horrified.  we had our tent for 3 years then bought a caravan for £1000 a target. just the basics. we loved it , that was in i think 1987.

i love caravanning, i would even tent again but i cant cope with the cold.

Brother had a campervan...we all went away (7 of us) for a weekend, with some of sleeping in his driveaway awning!!!  Then visited a good friend who vanned and decided I wanted one.   Took me a while to talk hubby into it but eventually, we bought an older van to try it out for ourselves.

Got the bug, kept the old van for 3+ years and recently upgraded.  Now we all love our holidays in our van.

Hi Dreadnought, My first experience of caravanin was is the early 70's after our first child was born.no money and looking for a cheap holidy, bought an ace caravan second hand(boat shape roof,curved front window,slated side windows and steel chassis,don't know the model). got it home,pushed it up driveway,and hole thing rocked from side to side,spoke to a workmate who was into caravaning,and asked for some advice,took off small piece fo panel to see if it had damp,it was totaly rotten top to botton,cut a long story short, re built it from scratch,had it a couple of years the wife decided she wanted holidays in hotels etc,sold it for about the same price of the new fridge,triffic wee van sorry to see it go,bought wee folding caravan about 8 years ago and a few since, current van is a 340/2bert compas lynx,wee bit crampt for space when cooking, very reluctant to trade it in as i love it,it's dry,no damp,have to look long and hard to find a van in this condition,as a bit to cold to do another rebuild. John