Campervanning

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.

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

Trips

Before campercita:

1. Our inaugural campervanning trip: Spain-France, Christmas 2018.
2. Our 2nd campervanning trip: Eastern Spain, Easter 2019.

With campercita (trips including at least a night):

1. Wolverhampton-Issoire (December 2019).
2. Issoire-Madrid (January 2020).
3. Madrid-Wolverhampton (January 2020).
4. Staffordshire — Cannock chase, Shugborough, Sudbury, Uttoxeter... (January 2020).
5. Ashby de la Zouche, Grantham & Woolsthorpe Manor (January 2020).
6. Clent hills, Hanbury Hall & Himley park (February 2020).
7. Shropshire: Wroxeter, Church Stretton, Caer Caradoc (February/March 2020).
8. Sunnycroft & Lilleshall (March 2020).

Mini-trips (without a night):

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

Prospective/possible trips

In England

Monday school (less than 2 hours to destination)

1. Shropshire Hills (~1h)
2. Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden (~1h)
3. Cotswolds AONB (~1h40)
4. Leicester (~1h40)
5. Derby (~1h10)
6. Notthingham (~1h40)
7. Gloucester (~1h30)
8. Abergele/Rhyle (~2h)
9. Snowdownia (~2h)

3 days longer stretchs (less than 3h)

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

Day trips

1. Boscobel house and the Royal Oak + White ladies priory

In Spain

Week-end

• Hoces del Río Riaza Natural Reserve

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

• http://www.m3caravaning.com/m3caravaning/349/camper-furgoneta-benimar-benivan-101-novedad-2018.html
• https://www.autocaravanasnorte.com/furgonetas-camper/camper-nueva/benimar-benivan-101/

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.