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14/10/2015 at 6:09pm
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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Quite, Feeblecat. Money is never the be all and end all of everything. It was certainly a major consideration for us at our time of life as we are retired, but mainly it was about lifestyle. We have always enjoyed the outdoor life, having had tents, caravans, and boats before. We decided we no longer wanted to cruise up and down the same river anymore, and would return to caravanning for the variety it gave us. We didn't want to go down the finance route, and from what we had heard and read it seemed that spending more didn't eliminate problems anyway. Plenty of 10, 5, and 2 year old caravans with serious problems, and even new ones were no guarantee. We therefore decided that we would find one we could afford to lose if it came to it. We are perfectly happy with our golden oldie, it gives us just as much pleasure as a new one would. We are more concerned about practicality rather than flash looks.
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14/10/2015 at 7:11pm
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As the above, it is absolutely nothing to do with finance, it is about lifestyle not what we can afford.
My wife and I have traveled the world, around 23 countries in the last 15 years clocking up well over 110 flights, but we love our van. OK, it is mainly France, but that is because we love it.....And I did travel the length and breadth of this country when I was working, so there is not a great appeal anymore. Sorry.
We quite frankly hate hotels, we tried a gite in May, it was OK but not as nice as our van. Our van is ours! It is our hobby, it is our lifestyle, it is freedom and it is so flexible. For what it is worth, I reckon it cost us around £45 a night this year, not that I am bothered what it cost tbh.
Fun never comes that cheap, but the simple things are nearly always the best.
Oh, and waiting to board a flight to some Costa surrounded by foul mouthed 18-30s, who's only intention is to drink themselves into a stupor, eat KFC and get laid whilst being herded around like sheep, is absolute hell to us. But I guess I did that, about 4 times, in the 70s, in fact we invented it!
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14/10/2015 at 7:33pm
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Sorry, forgot to say, we have a 2002 Bailey Pageant Monarch we bought for £4500 five years ago and have had 22 trips away totalling some 170 nights. In that time we have also been to Australia, Bahamas, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Tanzania, and as fantastic as they have all been, we still love France in our caravan just as much.
The debate is not what it costs, it about what we love about it.
Right, where is that year planner for next year.........! France...Spain...Portugal, in the van of course, six weeks should do it. Oh rats, we have to go to South Africa in March for a wedding, life is tough. But I have earned it.
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