Our Caravanning Essentials
Last night I wrote a page of Caravanning Essentials, things we think we’ll need to take with us when we go caravanning with the 1996 5 berth Coachman Oasis touring caravan we are buying from nearby Country Choice Caravans.
We’ve just got back from a lovely Easter break to Criccieth, North Wales where we stayed in an overtly luxury static caravan at the lake & beach edge of the Haven Holiday park and while we were there we listed the things we’d forgotten to bring and wished we had or things that we need we’d like to have with us because the lovely lady who owned the static had supplied us with them.
For us buying a caravan and all its kit (awning, waste water container, fresh water container, tow bar) will be a massive investment. To be honest we’re not entirely sure we’ll find caravanning with two small loud nutty people a truely relaxing kind of holiday, but we figured that as we are lucky enough to live so near to Wales and other interesting, scenic, rural idylls we should make the most of not having to spend huge sums of money on getting away to nice places and the opportunities of doing fun things together.
We’ve booked Bealers in for a one-day ‘towing & hitching your caravan course run by the Camping & Caravannning Club in a couple of weeks and we are crossing our fingers tightly that we’ll be able to get the new ‘van up our steep muddy drive on a very sharp bend in a busy road as if not we’ll have to find some nearby expensive storage for Big Bertha and all her pink satinette interior furnishings…
Tonight we ate: Pork and cider (one can of medium dry) casserole with carrots, onion, celery (whole plant chopped very finely) and parsnips cooked in the oven with jacket potatoes.
Kids ate: Rice krispies and cornflakes as we’d had no milk at breakfast time and the LOVE their cereal. Fairly often I let them have it for their tea as it is easy for me, comforting for them – all that milk and stodge just before bed, high in protein and carbs but low in sugar.
For lunch I ate: Cold roast lamb brought back in a tuppaware from Wales marinated in welsh mint sauce (well done Bealers for that one), new potatoes and salad.
While on our little holiday we ate: Spicy, beany, tomatoey, sausage casserole; roast lamb with ever trimming under the sun; dauphinoise potatoes. The best bit is I don’t remember lifting a finger apart from when it came to having to eat as good old Bealers shopped, chopped and cooked the lot. Er, thank you Bealers.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Wow, it looks beautiful! A friend and I were thinking of a week in a caravan in Wales in ‘09. Do you mind sharing what park you stayed at and what you thought of it?
I’m really enjoying your blog!