Revision as of 15:30, 7 April 2021

Campervan

The campervan is one's escape to the Gipsies' way of life, the time of a holiday, when you turn your car into your house. We got ours on 19 December (2019): a Volkswagen T6. It is great despite having caused us plenty of problems initially due to the poor job of the company which converted it—Starlight Campers—due to insufficient expertise with things that they don't do routinely, as is documented in this page. We had professionals fix it and now it's working great.

Es un coche-casita... Las furgonetas campers [1]

Trips

Before campercita:

With campercita (trips including at least a night):

Mini-trips (without a night):

Saint-Floret, on 25 December (2019).
Grottes de Perrier et Montaigut-le-Blanc, on 28 December ( 2019).
Murol and Lac Chambon, on 29 December (2019).

Prospective/possible trips

In England

Monday school (less than 2 hours to destination)

Shropshire Hills (~1h)
Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden (~1h)
Cotswolds AONB (~1h40)
Leicester (~1h40)
Derby (~1h10)
Notthingham (~1h40)
Gloucester (~1h30)
Abergele/Rhyle (~2h)
Snowdownia (~2h)

3 days longer stretchs (less than 3h)

Bath (~2h30)
North York moors (~3h)
Bridlington (Flamborough Headland Heritage Coast)
Lincolnshire

Day trips

Boscobel house and the Royal Oak + White ladies priory

In Spain

Week-end

Hoces del Río Riaza Natural Reserve.
Chorrera de los Litueros.

Week

Costa de Almeria.
Sierra de Leon.
Ojo Guareña, Valderejo y Rioja (August 2020) (not done in August 2020).
Guadalupe (January 2021)

Gallery

In the Embalse de la Toba, during our 2019 Easter trip.
Campercita in Perrier, as seen from its grottes, on 28 December (2019).
In Whoolstorpe, 26 January (2020).

Getting Should we get ours? (we did)

Modelos

Fiat Talento

Renault Trafic https://www.furgoplon.com/renault-trafic-evoke-style/

Benivan las hacen a la mitad del precio de VW: http://www.benimar.com.es/autocaravanas/benivan_101-199

En Madrid: ROULOT Avda. de San Martín de Valdeiglesias, km 2.2 28922 Alcorcón (MADRID) (+34) 916 11 10 03 ventas@roulot.com (he preguntado)

La tienen en https://www.autocaravanasnorte.com/furgonetas-camper/camper-nueva/benimar-benivan-101/ (he preguntado)

Adria Active: http://www.adria-mobil.com/vans/twin+range/active/

Ford Transit Ford Custom by Tinkervan

http://www.tarracocenter.com/promocion-tarragona/tarraco-center-ford-transit-custom-camper-5904

Nissan Primastar
Volkswagen Transporter t5, t6…)
Mercedes Vito

Mini o medianas

Modelos de micro camper

Minicamper Caddy Camp Maxi von Reimo (opinion)
SsangYong Turismo Tourist 36 000 pounds but it is 5m long anyway!

Segunda mano

Mercedes Vito 2014, 37900

Venta en Madrid

Links

For the UK

The Park4Night app is really handy to have on your phone so you can find sites while already on the move.
Searchforsites is the web-based alternative, set up in the UK and covering Western Europe. It doesn’t have quite as many sites but it does have good functionality and is good for advance planning.
https://www.quirkycampers.co.uk/campervan-campsites/ for more tips.

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-The '''''campervan''''' is one's escape to the Gipsies' way of life, the time of a holiday, when you turn your car into your house. We got ours on {{thisday|19|December|2019}}: a Volkswagen T6.
+The '''''campervan''''' is one's escape to the Gipsies' way of life, the time of a holiday, when you turn your car into your house. We got ours on {{thisday|19|December|2019}}: a [[Campercita|Volkswagen T6]]. It is great despite having caused us plenty of problems initially due to the poor job of the company which converted it—[https://starlightcampers.co.uk Starlight Campers]—due to insufficient expertise with things that they don't do routinely, as is [[Starlight Campers|documented in this page]]. We had professionals fix it and now it's working great.
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