john

Well, i have to say that after owning our first caravan for just over a year now that i absolutely adore caravanning!
It is something that i would never have thought i would do in a million years but after the initial appprehension of towing and manouvering in restricted spaces with 23ft of trailer on the back of the car, i have taken to it like a duck to water!
After an initial slow start to our first season because of the rota i was working on, we have managed to get away quite a few times.
We have used it four times at weekend functions with the rescue charity i am involved with, had two wekends on a small farm site in the middle of nowhere, a weekend in the wilds of border country looking up at the snow on Carter Bar, a weekend in Thirsk followed by a week just outside Rothbury. We had a week at Rosedale Abbey in North Yorkshire and a couple of long weekends at Powburn in north Northumberland. Most recently, we have had a week just outside Kendal in the lake district which was heaven.
It has been great because in most cases we have taken all of our animals with us....yes, six dogs and two cats! That alone has saved us a forune in kennel fees. It cost us almost £1,500 to kennel them all when we went on our cruise last January!
I really don't think we could have been away as much if we hadn't bought the caravan and i reckon the saving on kennel fees has almost paid for it!
Obviously, there will be some occasions where we will put some of them in Kennels. You can't really go sightseeing with six mad springers in tow! but at the moment it is nice just to get away for a weekend when we feel like it.
We have had some experiences while out there so i will add to this over time.