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    Caravan and Motorhome Resource Page

    CaravanVlogger’s Really Useful Caravan And Motorhome Resource Page If you’re looking for more information about Caravans or Motorhomes, look no further. What follows is a list of some Caravan and Motorhome YouTube channels, some big, some small. They are all great channels in their own right, all offering something different from the others, so they’re…

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    Selecting a Tow Car How To

    Selecting A Tow Car Car and Caravan Weights Things to consider when selecting a tow car…   The chances are you won’t want to change your car when you’re looking to buy a caravan. But does it really matter what car you use to tow your caravan. In fact it does matter and it’s important…

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    Caravan Storage With CaSSOA

    Buying a caravan is an exciting time. You’ve got the finances together, you’ve trawled the internet looking at caravan manufacturers, different designs, different internal layouts. You finally decided which one to buy. Hurrah. But have you considered where you’ll keep it? Not everyone can or indeed wants to keep their caravan on their drive. Caravans…

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    The True Cost Of Caravanning

    The True Cost Of Caravanning Caravans, like cars can cost you any number you care to mention. It depends on your budget and how much you’ll use it. Assuming you’ve bought a caravan. Now what? What other expenses are involved. You might be surprised how many caravan accessories you’ll need  / want.  You’ll need a…

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    What Is A Caravan Awning?

    What Is A Caravan Awning? All you need to know about a Caravan Awning and were afraid to ask!  This is a series of articles about “things I didn’t know when I started Caravanning”. Before we bought a caravan, I didn’t even know they had legs? Don’t worry; I’ll cover that elsewhere 🙂 Brace yourself…

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    Why Buy A Caravan?

    Why Buy A Touring Caravan? No One Ever Wants A Caravan….Until…. Why buy a caravan? I’ve noticed something. In the office, down the pub, or even at friends houses, if someone finds out we own a caravan it’s pretty much unanimously met by deranged laughter and pointing. OK, a slight exaggeration, we at least get…

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    Commuting From A Caravan

    Commuting From A Caravan Brighton Revisited? OK, it’s a poor play on the title “Brideshead Revisited”, although the plot is nothing like the story.. We’d booked tickets to see a concert at the Brighton Dome. Brighton is about a 2 hour drive for us, so we thought it would be a good idea to make…

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    CADAC Carri Chef 2 BBQ Paella Pan Combo Review

    Cadac Carri Chef 2 BBQ Paella Pan Combo Review – Overview How to write a Cadac Carri Chef 2 BBQ Paella Pan Combo Review when you’ve only owned it for a week? Well, we’d owned a Cadac many years ago, which we loved. However, I did manage to destroy it whilst having a family BBQ.…

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    Cadac Basic Breakfast

    OK, you don’t need to be a Michelin trained chef to cook breakfast on a Cadac. I’m not sure that it would help at all and in fact if might even be a hindrance. This was the very first thing we cooked on the Cadac. Yep, it’s the actual photo of the actual thing we…

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    CAMC Site Review – Cherry Hinton – Cambridge

    CAMC Club Site Review Cherry Hinton Cherry Hinton, just outside of Cambridge is probably one of our nearest Caravan Club Sites. We have family in Cambridge and visit every now and then. Rather than stay in their house we prefer the comfort and space of our Bailey Cartagena so we visit relatives and go back…

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    Choosing a Caravan Layout

    Which Caravan Layout? Introduction If you’ve made that difficult decision to buy a caravan, it won’t take you too long to realise just how much choice you have and exactly which one would suit your needs. Well, I can’t answer that obviously, but I can give you a run down of the sort of layouts…

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    Washing a Caravan with a Waterless Cleaner

    Washing a Caravan with a Waterless Cleaner . Some time ago I purchased a waterless cleaner to wash my caravan when I was onsite. Caravan And Motorhome Clubs sites at least, don’t allow you to “wash” you caravan when on site. I only assume it’s to do with water consumption and it’s probably generally antisocial…

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    Camping Le Soleil Caravan Site Review

    Welcome to CaravanVlogger’s Camping Le Soleil Caravan Site Review (SG) In the summer of 2018 we spent three weeks in France. Two of which were spent at Camping Le Soleil in (actually near) Argelès-sur-Mer. Camping Le what? Argelès ? What the…Ok, let me use my rudimental French here, so the camp site is “Camping the…

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    Chester Fairoaks CAMC Site Review

    Chester Fairoaks CAMC Site Review August Bank Holiday and we decided to travel to Chester from our home which is just North of London. We went on the Friday and left at about 8 O’clock. We live quite near the M11 so in no time we were on the motorway heading towards the dreaded M25.…

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    Ferry Meadows CAMC Site Review

    Site Overview A large site spread over two areas, east and west . East side is more suitable for families with children as there is a play area and an enclosed area where kids can kick balls around, play football, or basketball / netball. There is a fish and chip van a few days a…

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    Part Four Touring France in a Caravan – Cazilhac to Argeles

    This was another driving day, this time the shortest leg of our journey down south from Cazilhac (Carcassonne) to Argeles-Sur-Mer, which is just south west of Perpignan on the south coast. I was amazed to find out that Argeles-sur-Mer is only 2 hours north of Barcelona. As with all of our stopovers we have a…

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    Part Three Touring France in a Caravan – Carcassonne

    No travelling with the caravan today, it’s a rest day in the beautiful city of Carcassonne. We were staying just outside Carcassonne in a place called Cazhilac, don’t ask me how to pronounce it. Cazhilac is pretty much a housing estate with a campsite on the edge of it. It was a perfectly good campsite, with a…

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    Caravan Tow Cover – Do I Need One?

      Should I buy a caravan tow cover? Is it something you need to add to your growing number of caravan accessories? You know, the sort of thing it covers the front of your caravan and protects it whilst towing. They’re not meant to be left on when in storage, just when driving. The price…

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