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Revision as of 09:48, 6 February 2020

Contents

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.

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Campervan-inaugural-trip-dec2018.jpg

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 (January 2020).
  5. Woolsthorpe Manor & Grantham (January 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

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

Gallery

Should we get ours?

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Modelos

  • Fiat Talento

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)

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

Segunda mano

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.