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As the days and nights get colder, you may be feeling a chill in your caravan that you want to fix. Winter’s for being cosy and warm, not tackling draughts and cold temperatures.   In this guide, we’ll lay out how best to ensure that your caravan is insulated throughout the winter. This will help you breeze through the season without a worry!   Insulation   No matter how well you manage to heat your caravan, if it’s not insulated well, you...

You could be in with the chance of winning a huge prize bundle this December! We've teamed up with Oaktree Motorhomes to give you the chance to win the perfect combination of gifts to set your touring in 2021 off to a great start. The bundle includes: A CADAC Safari Chef 2 Camping Stove, A Duvalay Compact Sleeping Bag, An Outdoor Projector and Screen, A Camping Hammock, A set of 2 Camping Chairs and a Fenwicks Caravan Cleaner and Boble Dazzler Twin Pack! All you need to do is enter u...

Article updated: 1/12/20   As we end lockdown and return to a tiered approach to COVID life, it can be confusing what’s allowed! With the caravanning season being so disrupted this year, more and more people are keen to extend their holidaying further into the winter to make up for it. But what are the rules?   Back in October   In October, when we were last divided into tiers, holiday parks and caravan sites released statements to people in Tier 2 an...

Can there ever have been a time of greater change than has been seen in the last 50 years? So many areas have developed beyond all reasonable expectations. Perhaps the obvious things are computers and IT technology, medical science, transportation, electronics – the list could go on and on. Less obvious, at least to most, has been the development of the touring caravan.   Here is an early admission, I am not in any sense technically or practically inclined, so my thoughts are ...

The sound of the rain tap, tapping on the roof, the whistle of the kettle boiling, my cosy little bunk bed with the curtain pulled across at night. My parents had an Eccles Amethyst caravan when I was little and my memories of our time spent in it are some of the happiest of my whole childhood. This year, on a rainy day in February half term I was staying with my parents in Birmingham when we discovered that the Camping and Caravanning Show was on at the NEC. It seemed like a good idea for a day...

  January and February are always exciting times of year in relation to holiday planning; perhaps even more so for those fortunate enough to own and have the opportunity to extensively use a touring caravan. So it was for us as we started to plan our extended trip to Europe. The brief was to combine old favourite places with new locations. Our journey would take a leisurely six weeks with two main focal points of Provence and Tuscany.   It was early May when we left home in...