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Or a nice Sprite caravan, very light to tow and usually pretty good with regards to damp.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPRITE-CONTINENTAL-4-BERTH-CARAVAN_W0QQitemZ130382191300QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Campers_Caravans_Motorhomes?hash=item1e5b625ac4

Also in your neck of the woods!!

The damp meter I brought was from Maplins..

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=220803

Seems good to me, just make sure you sharpen the points so as to get a good reading and not leave big holes!!

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NOT CORRECT, German vans do come with hot water system, but electric only, there is usually no gas water heater, also the 12 volt battery operation is not a standard fitting ,but is very easy to upgrade to, as is the installation of say a Truma gas and electric water heater, maybe to post is confused with "dry vans" this means the van does not have a toilet or shower room , Recommend you don’t buy one of this type, they are cheap but very hard to sell on, as for the post saying "they are to wide" that is also not correct, as from the 20th April this law will change and a van up to 2.55 meters will be legal to tow in UK by a standard motor car, but will become subject to V.A.T. Go and look at a Hobby van, any thing up to a 560 model are super for UK use, above this model they become very long and some are to long for UK roads so do your home work, Hobby vans are very - very well made and you would become one of the thousands of very happy owners...

I actually saw a note on a campsite advert that said "No Hobby vans"! Why would that be???

Been to see a Coachman tonight lovely but had damp at from and I just didnt know how much we would have to spend to put it right.

Kinza we got the rapidtest damp meter from amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rapitest-RAPDTM118-Damp-Test-Meter/dp/B0001P0JZU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=garden&qid=1271266217&sr=8-2

Quite a few people reccomended it.

Our German van does have hot water - both gas and electric - and it's built like a tank.  The quality of the build is in my view much better than the UK vans.  We also have an oven in ours but I think the older ones don't seem to have them.  

The main issue is weight.  They are heavy but if you are looking for something relatively small (i.e. a small 4 berth), you might get lucky.

Our Hymer went in for service recently and they couldn't find damp anywhere - not a bit.  I know ours is only 5 years old but the chap who serviced it said he had seen much older German vans which didn't show any signs of damp at all.  This was our main motivation in buying a German built van in the first place after reading all the horror stories on here about rotted/damp caravans.