Welcome to my World
of
Caravanning

It all began in the Summer of 2007

I was bored and decided I wanted a new hobby. I was stood at the bedroom window, elbows on windowsill and chin in cupped hands and wondering what to do, when a caravan over the road caught my idle gaze. Then it dawned on me. I wanted a caravan.
I decided to look out for an old caravan to do up.

Then the fun began. We started looking for a caravan, then decided on a small motorhome after seeing how big caravans were and wondering if it would fit on our shared driveway. Then it was back to caravans again after realising the expense involved in owning a motorhome, not to mention numerous disadvantages and their pokey interiors. This time it was smaller caravans such as Freedom, Microlite and Eribas.
We fell in love with the Eriba until.....

To cut a long story short, we found a 1992 Elddis Wisp 400/2 at a dealer in Rugby.
It was just the right size to fit on the driveway and roomier than an Eriba or motorhome. We both fell in love with it and bought it there and then. A week later on 24th September 2007, after being fitted with a Powrtouch motor mover and being cleaned and serviced, it was delivered to us and parked on our driveway. And we hadn't even got our tow car yet!

Then began a labour of love. The old carpet was replaced with a new wood-effect lino flooring, safety equipment installed, alarm, plastic storage boxes screwed to the floor under the seating, cushions and curtains washed, 12V electrics rewired, new sockets fitted and much more. Two weeks later, it was ready for it's first voyage and we STILL hadn't got a tow car!

A friend of ours towed it to a local C&CC site just 5 miles up the road for our first trip away so we could test everything out and towed it back home again for us after staying two nights. That was it. We were smitten with caravanning. Over the next 12 months, several more modifications and other accessories had been added to the caravan. And 17 trips away, a total of 57 nights in the caravan later, the caravan was another year older.

Two years and many more modifications later, more additions and removals had taken place.  I therefore added a new page showing the Vent Boards in more detail together with a short description on how they were fitted and stories on other changes with photos too!

Click here to view our continued Labour of Love.

Caravanning Chronicles

I thought it a good idea to keep a record of all the places we went in the caravan for our own benefit as well as being a useful "Site Review" for anyone interested.  A total of 38 trips were recorded, 127 nights away in the caravan in total before we finally gave up.  If you want to know more about any of the sites, please  feel free to contact me.

Caravanning Chronicles

We no longer have the caravan anymore.  After careful consideration and weighing up our options together with the pros and cons, we decided caravanning wasn't for us.  It was fun while it lasted and I did enjoy doing up the caravan but our own personal circumstances meant there were better ways of enjoying trips away.  Who knows what the future holds though..... 

Why we gave up caravanning