There are frequent signs about it on the motorways it puzzled me until I read about it here so thanks for the mention! All those speed cameras. .. a lot are on that kind of road and of Henrietta my Ga

Hi To start off the journey I have always preferred to take an evening ferry to Calais and then get used to driving on the right while it's nice and peaceful. I like to drive south for a couple of hou

We have an Autosleeper Executive (older model) it's our third van and we love it. Being slightly narrower than most it is easier to drive through villages etc. All the fittings are excellent quality a

Just a reminder (applies for the person looking for a stop in Richmond as well . . . ) anywhere within the M25 is in the London Low Emissions Zone (the LEZ)., You should make sure your vehicle is comp

Hi all The LEZ covers just about every bit of London within the M25. I had my van in London from time to time for a couple of years as my mother's house is about 400m inside the zone <GRRR> I was basi

Hi Peter et al Yes that worked all right for me and I saw the thumbnail in the email. And clickingthe link showed me the full image. Just what I would have wanted!! Well done all we have reached a ver

>>Peter I think the problem is that yahoo is often difficult to sign in to I'm not sure if this may be because Yahoo used to drop people off if they did not sign in fairly regularly. They used to trea

Hi all I love this list. There is so much friendly help from fellow motor-homers who have been there done that and found the best way to do things. In particular I feel if I was in France with a probl

Hi to the group I would put in a plea NOT to have photos uploaded to the group please ? I have enough trouble getting my emails while overseas. Large unwanted pics would get in the way of the informat

Hi all HELP! A while ago we were almost robbed in the Pyrenees (wild camped for the night). They slashed the metallised pull down blind on our Hymer 544, then opened the door lock. Fortunately the top

Hi all This thread has been very useful. I too have been a victim of the Dumped Water scenario. Way above freezing point! I could never work out if the button had to be up or down to keep the water in

We did this by accident a few years ago. Never again! They pointed out the error of our ways at the checkin. We had to rebook there and then and paid a high premium and had to kick around at the termi

Hi AndreFridge problems are no fun, especially somewhere hot like Italy. We had a similar problem in Italy where it did not seem to work on 12V or gas and we were in a very warm Spain. A dealer cleane

Hi all With all the correspondence about SatNavs it reminded me about the problem of actually being able to see the darn thing. I need glasses for distance and other glasses for reading. So Neither is

Hi all If someone can give us a link to the council's feedback page we can all write and give them the benefit of our collective thoughts on this matter! I'm on restricted internet access here but wil

Hi all We are based in London. Does anyone have good experience of having their Truma water heater serviced ? Ours has taken to leaving puddles on the floor and so we have had to drain it and not use

Hope this is not too late to be useful! Last year we were there. Just outside Brecon is a riverside car park that is nice for overnight. Free overnight, just pay parking if you don't leave by ?8.30 I

Thanks for that Pete. Wrong answer! But I gave incomplete information - we need a Camp Site as we have some visitors with us and not all can sleep in the van, we will have a youngster in a pup tent .

Hi all I know this has been discussed before but things change so perhaps someone has up to date info ?? We plan to visit Paris in mid June for a few days. Having been almost annihilated driving in Pa

Hi all you fridge fundis . . . The fridge discussion reminded me I have only got half way to fixing my own Dometic fridge. Whilst in Spain this summer I could not get it going on gas or 12V but on mai