Time to Face The Music

RelievedSheff

rugbymadfamily said:

RelievedSheff said

I'm only on my first dose. Think I have got mine early though, I'm 37. There were people younger than me there as well.

Sorry thought you were second. Either way, good news! 

I love the lack of set up required with camper van, literally park and job done. The one we travelled in for about 6 months had a bed that you had to make each night in the seating area which was the bit that drove me mad. Although that was possibly cos it was for 6 months every night!

We have none of that. Just press a button and the bed drops down from the ceiling above the lounge. The bedding stays on the bed so no messing about at bed time.

We are too lazy to be messing about making beds up and down every night.🤣🤣🤣

joedenise

Same here.  We don't even have to press a button - the bed is ready made at the back of the van.  We also have a pull down bed at the front if we have someone travelling with us (used just a couple of times in the 7 years we've owned the van!); or it means we can have separate beds if one of us is unwell.  Wouldn't have a van which needed to have the ed made up every night.

Would never try to work out how much the van costs us per use!  I think it would frighten us to death and we didn't take finance out to buy ours so no interest to pay just the cost of the van.

warby68

Its not really the cost as its a pretend figure - its showing how much you use it which I suspect is going to be a lot.

alt80

That van sounds pretty clever @RelievedSheff like a moveable studio flat. Quite impressed by the bed. 

I think your cost/use will be low by year 2 - you're out in the thing every weekend now. As I said before carry on using it as much as you do and it'll be really good value. Know I've joked about it but I think you've got life made tbh always seem happy, get out with your dog a lot, don't let the weather get you down or anything else. Menu envy everyday here too, bet you eat better in the van than I do at home lol.

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

That van sounds pretty clever @RelievedSheff like a moveable studio flat. Quite impressed by the bed. 

I think your cost/use will be low by year 2 - you're out in the thing every weekend now. As I said before carry on using it as much as you do and it'll be really good value. Know I've joked about it but I think you've got life made tbh always seem happy, get out with your dog a lot, don't let the weather get you down or anything else. Menu envy everyday here too, bet you eat better in the van than I do at home lol.

The van is a very clever layout. That is why we specifically wanted this model. It makes the best use of the available space in what is a small motorhome at under 6m long.

enthusiasticsaver

Sounds like you will get a lot of use out of the van although I note most of the car parks down here in Cornwall say no motor homes to be parked overnight so presume you normally have to park on sites unless on friends land etc? Are you allowed to park on National Parks etc like Dartmoor or The Peak District?

 My Dad had a caravan and loved it as he spent so much time in hotels on business etc. Spent so many weekends as a teenager cramped up with my parents, sister and brother it put me off  caravanning\motor homing for life. I can see the attraction if you have a dog particularly though and with just two of you that would be ok. 

alt80

Is 6m the whole thing or just the home rather than the motor iyswim? Have you got a floor plan actually quite interested in it from a space POV- I love clever space solutions. Probably really do sound mad now lol.

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

Is 6m the whole thing or just the home rather than the motor iyswim? Have you got a floor plan actually quite interested in it from a space POV- I love clever space solutions. Probably really do sound mad now lol.

6m is the overall length. Well it is actually 5.95m long to fit it under the 6m bracket for cheaper ferry and tunnel fares.

The layout and some pictures are on this link below from the dealers:

https://www.marquisleisure.co.uk/motorhomes/stock-item/benimar-mileo-202

Ours is the same other than the "wood" in ours is a darker colour. We drop the bed much lower down than they have it in the pictures there so that we don't need the ladder and have put the ladder in the garage to free up some storage. It is supposed to be a four berth van with two on the drop down bed and two on the sofa conversion below but we will never have it as a four berth.

It really is a very clever layout and squeezes the most it can into a little van. We looked on much bigger vans that had smaller lounge areas, smaller shower rooms and smaller kitchens.

RelievedSheff

It should be a no spends day today.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are from stores. Breakfast was cereals, the other half has taken his packed lunch to work, I will rustle something up from the fridge for my lunch and dinner tonight is spag bol with some garlic bread.

Today's jobs include:

• Working from home
• cleaning the windows and mirrors
• cutting the grass (if it stays dry enough)
• put the food for the weekend on the van
• walking the dog x 2

I seem to have woken up just fine from my Pfizer jab this morning. My arm is a bit sore where they have jabbed it but other than that I feel fine this morning and very refreshed for a good night's sleep. Perhaps it is a bit early for getting any side effects yet, it will only be about 12 hours since I had it. Anyway the plan is to take it easy today and not do too much.

Sun_Addict

Glad you’ve emerged unscathed, the Pfizer seems to be the best one to have re side effects, if I had a choice I’d choose that one, it was pot luck what they had on the day at the centre and it was an AZ day when I went. Still they all do the same thing in the end and if that’s what it takes to get us back to normal it’s well worth a few hours of feeling rough.