... didn't have you down as quite as much of a wimp, Simon..... ;-)
>>
>> While I'd not park anywhere I didn't feel safe I'd feel pretty safe in middle
>> of nowhere in UK or France and sites don't need to be confining.
"Wild Camping" in the UK is largely confined to remote Scotland, unless you want to be really anti-social, but endorsed locations for motorhomes/campervans are widespread across Europe, and if you are moderately selective, are better than many campsites (location, ambience, etc)
>>Movi is right though about toilets. Easy enough for a bloke to point Percy at the pine
>> cones but females find outdoor weeing more of a problem.
>> We have a Thetford cassette loo in the caravan which is pretty much only used
>> for (as one of the caravan sales people put it) having a tinkle in the
>> night. Having once mistakenly booked a site with no facilities it's perfectly feasible to have
>> a poo in one but the tank emptying is much more involved.....
>>
Jeez - the process is exactly the same, the contents might be slightly more intimidating if you are squemish - though a lot of people prefer to use their own facilities even when on a campsite.
>> Even in a big tent once the kids were past 7 or 8 trying to
>> get them to settle while Mum and Dad were still up was an uphill battle.
>>
....which is why we bought our first campervan, and found it infinitely more easy than a tent..
>>
>> Another issue with van conversions is insulation and heating. We have 240 volt electrics >>and option of gas heating in caravan and it's thoroughly insulated; snug even when it's -5
>> outside. Trying to keep a Transit warm in winter without insulating sides and roof would
>> probably be impossible and would certainly cosy a chunk.
...any professional conversion is likely to be insulated (albeit with a "tin-tent" to a somewhat lower level than a caravan). Ive been down to -14 degrees in one, and in the last campervan to -11. The last one had 2KW of electric heating and 4KW of Gas heating, not that difficult to keep warm.
>>
>> We thought about a camper van before we bought our Xplore 304 caravan but decided
>> that packing everything up to go anywhere was going to be a PITA. Lost count
>> of times I'd left one kid with Mrs B setting up stuff while other went
>> with me in car to get bread etc. And we'd have to use camper as
>> second car - most are too high to go in car parks in town.
>>
I think this is a matter of motorhome/caravan prejudice. We find we have to pack very little if we want to move on (basically, turn the front seats round and we're off). We can also arrive and be off down the pub in 30 seconds - not that we do that, of course.....). TBF, we use a campervan/motorcaravan because we don't (generally) stay in one place for more than 2-3 days, and walk/cycle whilst we're there, but we don't find the lack of a separate vehicle a problem at all.
Chacun à son goût
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