Retro Caravan Tours
Not only do we get a chance to go away in our little retro caravan, we get to have a look around some amazing vans owned by our friends.
Betty
Erica
Charlie
Stanley
Maranda
Gladys
Margo
Maggie
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Retro Caravan Tours
Not only do we get a chance to go away in our little retro caravan, we get to have a look around some amazing vans owned by our friends.
Betty
My Vintage Caravans
My love of vintage caravans started with my Grandparents static caravan. The hum of the gas lights, whistle of the kettle and going by touch light in the middle of the night to find the loo block.
Daisy
The first vintage caravan I owned, a 1969 Bluebird Europe Three.
Click the here to see Doing Up Daisy!
When we brought Daisy home, she was full of rot, holes and damp. She had no road lights, missing trim, dents, spiders, a broken skylight, lots and lots of leaks.... In just 8 weeks, we got her safe and usable. Not pretty or finished but usable. We used her and showed her like that for a season. Then in early 2017 we went back to all the jobs we couldn't fit into those 8 weeks. The list was just as big!!! Click the link above for how she got from damp and forgotten to back out on the road for family adventures!
What she looked like a few days after arriving home.
Full tour of Daisy after a lot of work!
Daisy is now in her new home, in Switzerland. Selling her was a very hard choice to make but knowing she is with the perfect family makes it an easy choice.
Stanley
Click here to see Sprucing Up The Sprite
Click above for the tour of Margo when she arrived home!
First weekend away in Margo
Update on Margo
Maggie
Stanley sat for over 20 years in the position above, waiting for a new adventure. We towed him home in the snow, driving passed lots of abandoned cars!
click above to see a tour of him back home
A little update above, its been a very difficult year for me and poor Stanley is feeling a little forgotten but he won't be for long!
Margo
Sat for over 20 years in a garden, her a-frame rotten into the ground, it took me 3 attempts to pick her up! She was worth the work, a 5 berth, perfect family size van and even though there is a lot of work to do, a lot, she will be my forever van!
Click above for the tour of Margo when she arrived home!
First weekend away in Margo
Update on Margo
Maggie
Sprite Alpine
Having been sat for over 25-30 years her A-Frame had rotted, so just to move her she needed patching up!
click above for a little sneak peak of Maggie
Easter Egg Hunt at Petworth House
I have been to the park many times, but never visited the house or gardens.
The house is well worth a look around, full of beautiful artwork. I was a little worried about our busy mini people who like to run wild but they loved looking around the house.
It was pouring with rain, 'Spring' hasn't really happened yet... Being British you have to just get on with it, rain or not. The gardens where still beautiful in the rain and the mini people loved it! We where soaked through but had lots of fun following the foot prints and find clues. (The vegan choices for lunch where not fab but they did make jam sandwiches for the minis and I had a plain jacket potato.) If it had been a nice day then it would have been perfect for a picnic.
They did have a bunny gift in place of the dairy chocolate too and they loved the fox masks!
It was a great family day out!
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Goodbye Daisy
Selling Daisy, well even the thought of selling her was hard to bare. She was sold in less than a week and to such a wonderful lady who I know will take the very best care of her.
When we first brought her home, she was a real mess. With support and advice from the Retro Caravan Club, in just 8 weeks we got her safe and water tight! Click here to read all about Doing Up Daisy!
She was damp, rotten, without even her running lights! After those 8 weeks getting her safe and water tight we got out using her! Keeping working on her around the mini people. Then the following winter we came back to all the jobs we hadn't got done in that first 8 weeks.
With a little help from may husband and Grandpa we turned her into a showstopper! Not only showing her at many shows but using her as our family holiday home on wheels.
We all truly loved her. Then I heard about a Sprite Alpine, not the lager Major I wanted but still a 1960's Sprite. To make sure I gave the Alpine my all we put Daisy up for sale. I really felt like I had put a part of my family up for sale. It was hard but the lady who wanted to buy her was so lovely and is still in touch I knew it was the right choice.
Daisy went on her BIGGEST adventure to date to get to her new home and I will updating you all on her soon.
She is with such a lovely new family who I know will take great care of her.
Goodbye Daisy, thank you for everything!
Fog - Rock Poem
The Fog
sea fog rolls into the shore
silently covering all
hiding the sun from me
a beauitful day, hidden from all
quietly it creeps along the waves, then sand, then pebbles, to me
from some far off place created, by roaring waves and violent seas
sea fog rolls into the shore
as into my mind it clouds
my thoughts like the beach huts
hidden from all
The Sun - Rock Poem
The Sun
no matter the size of the storm
the sun will still set
no matter the damage caused
the sun will soon rise
look for the sun
so big, so sure
all that you do it looks on
all knowing, yet unchanging
the sun will rise
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