Carol

Thank you all for the advice. It looks like it's worth tracking down someone who knows about handling motorhomes, rather than the cheapest sprayer in the area. 

Thanks again. 

Mick

I found this quote, which just about sums up the problem;

In summer, I did any driving in the afternoon both to keep cool and comfortable and take the heat out of the van's interior. In winter, a hook-up could keep the Truma going 24/7, but if no hook-up, I would rely on the sun to run the Truma during the day and do my driving at night to charge the battery and cook the interior with cab heat. (Although it used to be that while one could not drive with the Truma running in the UK, one could do so in Europe. Has that changed?

Will you continually on sites for a/c?  Generally speaking trying to acclimatise is better and use cool (damp) sheets at night.  If sites then a/c good option.  

We have a Fantastic Fan and find that works. Need it on and also another roof vent open so it sucks air in but allows the movement of air. There again I wouldn’t be in Greece in those temperatures!!

Enjoy your trip and keep us up to date

A good app (free) for friends to follow you is Polarsteps.  

Carol 

This has been in development for a while, the launch was held up due to the lockdown. It's a trial, with the agreement of the Scottish Government, ending in December, after which it will be assessed. 

Thanks Martin looks a good site.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 19:47, Buff via groups.io <huffbuffforums=googlemail.com@groups.io> wrote:

> We're still using a 12 year old TomTom because when I was wondering a few years ago about a replacement I found that several of the features that we rely on had been removed.

Unfortunately this habit of removing essential features from hardware and software is most annoying.  Almost every company does it. I'll mention TomTom's decimation of their .ovr files to .ov2, removing most of the data for waypoints.  Now we have to use the bloated .gpx format.

> We make very extensive use of POIs that we create ourselves.  When I was looking it appeared that more recent versions of TomTom would not allow:
> - creation of POIs on the device (adding a selected point on the map to a user-defined category of POIs, and naming each POI)
> - exporting such POIs to a PC
> - importing sets of POIs from the PC

> Does anyone here make extensive use of user-defined POIs and itinerary planning? If so, what device and/or app do you use? And how convenient do you find it?

I've got hundreds made over many years.  Was forced to change when TomTom killed their .ovr format.

Jump a few years and I'm now using Garmin's BaseCamp.  Not the latest version, as that has removed the ability to view waypoints and tracks from selections within BaseCamp, on Google Earth.  (BC calls GE and returns, leaving both programs as they were.)

BaseCamp is not as good as the program it replaced - MapSource - as too much is missing and has not been included in BaseCamp.

I use a Garmin GPSMap 276Cx - and others.  It's an up-to-date copy of their original 276, but incorporating newer technology, where it has an advantage over the older technology.  So to mark a waypoint as one is driving past a place, one just presses the "Mark" button.

Itinerary planning is easy in BaseCamp and quickly uploaded to the GPSr.  From Garmin's website:-