John Lazarus
Free Member
We are a retired couple from Cape Town, South Africa. It has long been an ambition of mine to spend our winter months (your summer) in the Northern Hemisphere in a camper van. Now that I am approaching 80 (next year) I think it is time to do it. For the last two weeks I have been perusing the internet to find a suitable vehicle and have found one which I am buying.
Since my main hobbies are kite-surfing, paragliding, power paragliding and hiking I am proposing to spend most of my time this year in Cornwall and Devon. I have paraglided the cliffs of Cornwall before and am looking forward to doing this again.
I shall be arriving in the UK in the first half of July and since I am buying the camper van now, need somewhere to store it until then. Unless anyone has any better ideas I shall probably arrange for a friend in the UK to make use of the long term parking at Heathrow.
I believe that it is compulsory to have insurance in the UK so attempted to arrange it. When I said that my van may be parked at the long term parking at Heathrow, which I would imagine is an extremely safe place to park, I was told that it was not possible to insure it. Where do insurance companies want one to park?
Since my main hobbies are kite-surfing, paragliding, power paragliding and hiking I am proposing to spend most of my time this year in Cornwall and Devon. I have paraglided the cliffs of Cornwall before and am looking forward to doing this again.
I shall be arriving in the UK in the first half of July and since I am buying the camper van now, need somewhere to store it until then. Unless anyone has any better ideas I shall probably arrange for a friend in the UK to make use of the long term parking at Heathrow.
I believe that it is compulsory to have insurance in the UK so attempted to arrange it. When I said that my van may be parked at the long term parking at Heathrow, which I would imagine is an extremely safe place to park, I was told that it was not possible to insure it. Where do insurance companies want one to park?