Saturday, January 23, 2010

23 January 2009 Norfolk

Getting really excited now!  Tomorrow we will be on the train to pick up “Trevor” (long story...) the day after.  We started our search for our dream van back on the 6th January 2009, setting out from our Spanish home we travelled for two days, arriving in Portsmouth for a ‘Premier Inn’ night (the last for a while!) before setting out for the Shepton Mallett show on Friday 9th.

Of course, as complete newbies we were astounded at what was available and not really knowing our A Class from our elbows, interrogated any poor soul who got stuck with us until we felt we had confused ourselves totally. The only real requirements we had, before commencing our search, were a bed we didn’t have to make up each night and a proper shower as opposed to wet room. We didn’t find our motorhome at the show but did gain lots of knowledge which helped us with the rest of our search.

Naively, with the credit crunch biting, we believed that people would be practically giving us motorhomes just to take them away. How wrong could we be? Having never really been campers of any kind we only discovered whilst on our search that caravans, campers and motorhomes are, if not recession proof then very recession resistant. Long story short - after a long search we upped our budget a chunk (surrendering a further life policy – whoops!) and went back to the first motorhome we fell in love with and became the proud, if slightly nervous owners, of Trevor.

Our home is a Swift Bel-Air and although it has 3 berths is nicely big enough for just the two of us. Unusual in that it is a British built A Class giving us the luxury of a pull down bed and almost domestic quality shower room that fitted our bill perfectly.

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