Allanm
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- Jun 30, 2013
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Spent yesterday cleaning and polishing it to within an inch of its life yesterday, then we sold it around mid day today, and I feel like a big part of me is missing.
It had a professional damp test, and despite it being a British van, no damp was found, not even a tiny bit!
We will be spending more time in France this year, coming back every couple of months for a week or so, so have decided to get a left hand drive.
Then, we decided our van was too small to use how we want, and there aren't enough seat belts, so we started looking at larger vans.
Stupidly, we looked at an RV, now everything else looks too small!
So, we are off to look at a replacement tomorrow morning, an American RV ( used, I'm not that mad.....)
We have weighed up the pros and cons of an RV, more costly at the pump, longer, wider, taller than a eurovan, but Mrs A made a good point after our scary trip over the Pyrenees a few weeks ago, no more narrow mountain roads with hairpin bends. Well, I don't know about that, I can still do handbrake turns........ ( but don't tell her) and I can set the sat nav up so it thinks we are a lorry, that should keep us out of the tiny back lanes. I have a PCV licence and used to drive double deckers and 12 metre long coaches, so, as they say, the size doesn't matter to me.
Long term plan is to live in it most of the time while renovating the house in Brittany, then scoot off to some winter sun when the fancy takes us.
I miss the old van, but can't wait to get a new one....
It had a professional damp test, and despite it being a British van, no damp was found, not even a tiny bit!
We will be spending more time in France this year, coming back every couple of months for a week or so, so have decided to get a left hand drive.
Then, we decided our van was too small to use how we want, and there aren't enough seat belts, so we started looking at larger vans.
Stupidly, we looked at an RV, now everything else looks too small!
So, we are off to look at a replacement tomorrow morning, an American RV ( used, I'm not that mad.....)
We have weighed up the pros and cons of an RV, more costly at the pump, longer, wider, taller than a eurovan, but Mrs A made a good point after our scary trip over the Pyrenees a few weeks ago, no more narrow mountain roads with hairpin bends. Well, I don't know about that, I can still do handbrake turns........ ( but don't tell her) and I can set the sat nav up so it thinks we are a lorry, that should keep us out of the tiny back lanes. I have a PCV licence and used to drive double deckers and 12 metre long coaches, so, as they say, the size doesn't matter to me.
Long term plan is to live in it most of the time while renovating the house in Brittany, then scoot off to some winter sun when the fancy takes us.
I miss the old van, but can't wait to get a new one....
