Daily mileage when touring
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We want to do a mix of touring & stays.... revisit old campsites & go to places we never got to when the kids were young when camping.
So have scheduled a trip after returning from IOW for 2 & 3 night stays to cover Dorset, Devon & Cornwall in a circular-ish route..... without backtracking on myself, well that's the plan!
Thanks to all who have contributed to my OP, I guess it was always going to be open for debate.
We have purchased a Mileo 243, not quite as big as that red thing I used to drive for 20 years in London, so hopefully manageable
.....Once again thanks for all your replies.
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I said...or a PVC....
as it happens, if i couldnt tour abroad, id probably not bother...
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yes we do, and a PVC might suit....perhaps when i said 'i' might have a caravan, i should have said 'one' might....got JVB too excited, it seems..
yes, the weather has been a bit rough for a couple of days, with a 'weather bomb' sat over the area, but managed to get out for dinner last evening and the sun is out now and returning to normal.
thanks for your concern
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The overseas trips for the past two years were 12 stops/1K miles and 10 stops/1.6K miles. That was a mixture of one or two nights and a couple of longer stays of around a week. My Uk trips tend to be shorter and less nomadic. Hops can vary between 50 and up to 150/200 miles.
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It was not so much "excited"as you realizing that you now agree despite what it seems in all your previos posts the your mode of LV was "the way to go" but then as we have had a PVC as our first motor Caravan ,an AS Symbol and have said previously we may well have another in the future, as you now admit they or a caravan would be your choice if as so many now do only tour in the UK, so from me, thanks for seeing what is already common knowledge for the many how the UK touring type of LV is the sensible option
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They are all sensible options, JV. It’s some of the owners who aren’t. 😛
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Very like us then😁 We know certain parts of Cornwall very well, explored all the tiny little roads, hidden coves, picture book villages over 36 years of spending months each year down there. There are still areas we aren’t too familiar with though, mainly the North Eastern coastal area. Had a look at your new outfit, it is longer and wider than ours, and there are places we don’t take the MH, you will know some of the lanes will brush the wing mirrors on a car let alone an MH! But we still enjoyed a lovely three week tour down there a couple of years ago.
Once you get into Devon and Cornwall, you will have to pick your roads to use, but with a bit of preplanning you won’t struggle too much. Incidentally, long way if you are IOW based, but Northumberland and Borders are fabulous for touring with an MH. And Yorkshire🥰
One of my dream’s was to take an old London bus and convert it into a camper. Top deck for a sitting out area of course😁, roof off.
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Golden rule in this house re touring..........leave the blinkers at home. It’s surprising what you can do, and see, and get to, without them. Applies to both caravan and MH😁
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And the top deck could also be used for the Shadows to play while eating?
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Funny you should be talking about converting a bus.
https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/your-stories/h4ci/bus-conversion/
It's not a double decker though.
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Interesting! We have seen a few bus conversions down the years, mainly of the Crusty variety though. Great for windows, but I think better insulation might be required. Probably won’t leak like a sieve though.
My dream bus had the sun lounge (covered) at the front, with a sort of dumb waiter affair from galley kitchen down below to get meals and drinks up. Downstairs was bedroom, bathroom, breakfast galley. Fold back doors on sun lounge to open top sun terrace. With a small spa pool up there as well. Obviously not full when travelling.😁
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if you'd been paying attention you would know that 'my mode of MH' has pretty much the same footprint as the XLWB Ducato PVC's.
'i' dont need a PVC as i have (effectively, from a size perspective) already got one....
however, a PVC of the same footprint would actually be less roomy inside, would be less well insulated, would lack the double floor insulation and storage, would be well short of our other storage requirements (large bike garage), would be lacking in the fresh/waste capacity, would be short of roof space for our 'gadgets', wouldn't have two permanent double beds, would be lacking the large A-class cab and many, many more differences...
so, I'm sure our van is the 'way to go'....for us....which is why we bought it.
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You have one of the few PVC size conversions which are as posted the size that is almost as go any where as white van man ,but with more care to stop being damaged compaired to them, in this country
And if you had been paying attention, would have noted that
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I'm still dreaming about a Carthago. My present Majestic has a number of the attributes that your Carthago has, again on a PVC footprint. I think my Majestic's conspiring against me being able to afford the change though as I'm having to spend four hundred quid on sorting the Airbag ECU on it.
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It is but coming up four years old now so I would think I'm on a hiding to nothing.
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I'm Bedfordshire based & have a daughter in West Yorks so nowhere is 'out of bounds' for us.....
I have looked in handbook when booking sites to check for routes that are not suitable for MH v suggestions of Google maps....
Would you know if the B3306 through St Just & St Ives is worth doing when leaving Lands End en route to Tintagel instead of going straight up A30 as it follows the coast around that point?
Any suggestions welcomed, thanks.
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The B3306 is a superbly scenic route taking you over moorland, through villages and with coastal views.
Now here's the but. It’s a narrow, twisty road with granite walls and boulders projecting from hedges in places and very few passing places. HGVs use it to reach farms and villages but they don't have flimsy plastic/ali bodies…
In your van, I wouldn’t do it. In my steel sided panel van, I might. I have a feeling there may be a bus runs that way if you want to look see, and it is worth it, but like a lot of West Cornwall it’s an area that screams "hire car" at you.
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It's only 3m wide in places. "Do ya feel lucky, punk?"
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A picture speaks a thousand words. 👍🏻
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Good morning Tinny, shall we suggest to the visitors to Cornwall that they try the coast road from Crackington Haven via Millook to Widemouth Bay ? Or not ?
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Morning, Euro. Or maybe the Valley of the Rocks toll road at Lynton?
As we know, our area has loads of these delightful little roads and many are just passable with a MH providing there isn’t another vehicle coming from the opposite direction. However, what’s possible and what’s sensible are two entirely different things. After being used to the Westcountry, I find the single track roads of Scotland with their low hedges and passing places an absolute doddle. 😀
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