OMG! We've actually bought a campervan!!

[fullmoonfiend]

after 18months oflooking and being pipped at the post on e-bay contless times, we have bought a 1996 Ford transit van with hi-top! Dh is just scurrying round with the money now, so assuming we can get insurance sorted in time, we could be off next weekend! Very excited, though it's not as big as we'd like (beggars can't be choosers). It has 4 seats with belts, but currently only sleeps 2. So I guess we will be in a tent! There is room in the roof for slide-out bunks - it's just a question of finding someone to do it for us (Dh can barely change a lightbulb!)
Now, who can recommend a good awning...

hurrah!
We have camper too, Talbot express, v old (b reg) sleeps 2 if you can be bothered to swizzle the seats about and stuff, sleeps 3 or 4 if we had the poles and fabric hammocky bits. We sleep in the tent anyway, dogs sleep in camper.

The boys have already dictated they'll have the van and we can have the tent

In an ideal world it'd have been a really cool v-dub but I'll settle for anything as long as it means we can park up and make a cuppa somewhere pretty now and again

great for when you are packing too...loads less to remember as you can leave everything but food and clothes in the camper each time!

we have an awning with our camper. I think this is the new one we have (haven't tried it out yet though).

Where will you go fmm?

Amstrangely drawn to camper vans after years of sneering.

That looks tres posh cupcakes! I am a novice at this malarky, not even sure how an awning, y'know, actually attatches

Moony (that feels wierd as I am known as Moony!) we usually do a couple of music fests a year so will go in the van if poss next year. But we live in Yorks so there are many beautiful places oop dales by reservoirs etc where we can camp for a night. I just like to be away from the masses now and again and to burn a little wood, drink whisky and scoff marshmallows!
Plus some great friends of ours have had one for years and they can just be far more impulsive than us.

You will be in the Posh End at Booty Daze next year then?
I am impressed.I have a rather nasty case of tent envy myself at the moment after the weekend.Which is fine because I also have trolley envy too.

actually not sure bout Camper field - my mate said it was very noisy! (so may still be slumming it in the family field with you. Know what you mean about trolleys - the way forward!!)

Sounds great!

Will you venture abroad too??

PS No, I'm Moony!!

prob not - it ain't that big

OOooh...although i am a commited tenter
I'm
sigh...when the kids have grown up...i'll have my v dub then

Welcome to the world of campers! We've had our VW camper for a couple of years now and wouldn't be without it (despite the endless amount of time and money spent keeping it on the road!) It's not perfect (well it is about 18 years old) and a bit tatty in places, but it suits us all very well - 2 children (9 & 7), two big lurchers, lots of surfing gear and blankets, and plenty of food/drink.

We have an old-ish frame awning from Just Kampers and it attaches with three suction clamps to the side of the camper. Then when you want to go out for the day, you just release the clamps, zip up the door and you're away. Having said that, in the strong winds a couple of weeks ago in the Gower Peninsula, the clamps just couldn't cope with it. So we're currently developing a very heath-robinson-like solution involving big sticky hooks, string and rubber bands!!! I'll let you know if it works...

thanks! Insured from tomorrow but depends if insurnce note comes in time for us to get it taxed as to whether we'll beout and about this weekend. Ho hum, there's always next weekend - one final fling before school starts again

AmandaP..the Gower? I think my parents used to take us there to camp...

of you fullmooncamperfiend

Although we do have an awning and occasionally borrow DBIL's purple VW Camper for festies. It's just so nice to be able to nip back and have a cuppa. One that didn't involve queuing an hour just for the privilege of scalding your mouth whilst having to make mouth-to-cup contact with polystyrene. And the built in bed is so nice for my old and knackered back. [getting old emoticon]
And you don't have earwigs and one too few tent pegs and a rock under your bum and never do you have to shout 'don't touch the inside of it, it'll leak'.

Once more with feeling...

Purple Vdub....drooooooooooool!!

Also great for visiting relatives who don't have enough space to put you up. You can carry a touch of home around you wherever you go. Lovely.
Enjoy.