Time to Face The Music

RelievedSheff

joedenise said:

alt80 said:

Thought of you and your van when we went to York we spent £450 on hotel accomm for the 2 nights inc breakfast and room upgrade. Hotel wasn’t exactly amazing but how often you go away will soon rack up 100 weekend trips to pay for the van. 

Scotland trip sounds good and should be a good time to go. I’d love to do a tour up there. Good roads and I like my single malts so wouldn’t mind visiting some of the speyside distilleries. Don’t know if I suggested before but if you got a trailer for the Sierra you could take that park the van up and get out in your car - enjoy the roads and the car will get some use that way? 

@alt80 - that sounds like reverse caravanning to me!  If you need a car then a caravan would be the way to go.  With a motorhome it's shank's pony, bikes or scooter to get around!

@RelievedSheff - as you've done several weekends away now I would think that you have sussed out the best way of using the van and if there is anything you could add or take away to make life easier.  For me the worst thing with going away for a longer holiday is having to change the bed!  The longest we've do in this country is just over 2 weeks so have enough bedding to not worry about washing it until we get home but when we go abroad we usually go for at least a month at a time so as we only have 2 sets of bedding we end up having to wash it so that we can change it each week.

For longer trips for bedding and clothes we will just do what we did with the boat. Take enough for one week and then find a laundry facility mid way through the holiday. That always seemed to work well for us and if anything will be easier with the van because a lot of the campsites have laundry facilities.

alt80

Sounds like a complete nightmare mate working out all the weights etc. 

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

Sounds like a complete nightmare mate working out all the weights etc. 

Ours isn't as bad as some of the bigger vans that are 3500kg rated. At least we have something of a payload at 520kg to play with.

Some of the bigger vans are really on the edge of their payloads. Some only have a 200kg so by the time you have a passenger in there is not much left for luggage 🤔

alt80

It counts passengers as well as luggage? Presumably the driver is ‘free’ on the logic you need a driver to drive the vehicle or is it as ridiculous as to include the driver and the fluids (tank of petrol/ oil/ coolant/ screen wash etc etc etc)??

RelievedSheff

The driver, 90% fuel and 90% water are taken into account so they are "free"

But any extra passengers (potentially three), the dog and all of the gear onboard are the payload.

RelievedSheff

It will be a no spends day today. 

Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be from stores. Breakfast was crumpets, the other half has taken his packed lunch to work, I am having soup and bread for my lunch and dinner tonight is pizza and a few nibbles.

Today's jobs include:

• working from home
• vacuuming the house
• dusting the house
• finishing loading up the van
• walking the dog x 2

We will be having a quiet evening tonight with a couple of beers on the sofa. Not going to be drinking much though because we are driving in the morning. Steady one tonight.

alt80

lol can’t believe you even have to weigh the dog too haha so you’re better off having a small dog. 

Sounds like a nice evening - you starting you hol tomorrow or another weekend away? I can’t keep up ha 

RelievedSheff

alt80 said:

lol can’t believe you even have to weigh the dog too haha so you’re better off having a small dog. 

Sounds like a nice evening - you starting you hol tomorrow or another weekend away? I can’t keep up ha 

Holiday starts at 4pm when I have finished work

Set off to the Lakes tomorrow morning after a McDonalds breakfast   

Sun_Addict

Happy Friday, how fantastic to be breaking up today. Roll on 4pm 😁

alt80

Have a good one 👍