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  1. 5andy

    Channel 5 Caravan and Motorhome Show Tonight

    Tonight and tomorrow night, highlights of the Caravan and Motorhome Show are on Channel 5 at 8pm. Sorry if this has already been posted.
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    Silver Machine Turning Blue!!!

    Just dropped the Silver Machine off at Perthshire Caravans for work, fortunately still under warranty and I just wondered if anyone had seen anything like this before. The whole floor covering in the main areas of the motorhome was replaced after it started lifting in the bathroom. During...
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    Red Flashing Oil Can and Message Change Engine Oil.

    It’s all going wrong with the silver machine! I’m about 530 miles from home in Oxford and have planned to do twice that amount before getting home via the South West Coast, and this warning has come up when driving. As far as I can tell my oil level is at maximum.The Moho is due a service next...
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    Solar Panel Controler: Beeping and help needed to stop it please!!!!!!!

    On our way to Aviemore for a few days and sitting having lunch in a lay-by this irritating beeping started which was a new one on us. Eventually tracked it down to this small box which describes itself as a Solar Power Controler. Any thoughts about how to stop it. We do not need solar power at...
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    Advice re Use of GP Services in Spain

    Hi, in all our travels we have never had to use medical services but this time there is a chance that Christine might need the services of a GP or Spanish équivalant. Has anyone on the forum used GP services for an on going condition eg. Pain, in Spain using an E111 and if so do you have any...
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    If Meets had Seats

    If meets had seats surely they would be these. Spotted today outside a bar in Calais. Just off to give them a go!
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    Wild Camping with Attitude!

    Couldn’t resist a photograph. This was taken 10mins walk from a city centre. Sometimes I think I am too sensitive to the views of locals when wildcamping.
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    Free View Tele in Narbonne

    Just crossed the border into France and parked up at an aire in Narbonne. We have an 85 cm satellite, tried tele not expecting anything and suddenly BBC 1 appears. Don’t know if it’s a good thing because we’ve managed just fine without tele, but we get all channels you would want except Channel...
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    Dieppe Newhaven Ferry. Advice in bad weather.

    We have a ferry booked Dieppe to Newhaven on Saturday 4th, 7am sailing. It looks like 40 mph plus gales on Friday night. If the Friday afternoon ferry is cancelled does anyone know how that is likely to affect the Saturday morning ferry? (I don't really need to get back until Sunday morning.)...
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    Least Wild Wildcamping spot.

    I am not proposing this as a POI but it must stand a chance in a Least wild wildcamping site competition. Doubt if you could get much closer to the mayhem that is the pubs and climbs of Benidorm. So far there has alway been 2 or 3 motorhomes hear never staying more than 1 or 2 nights.
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    Selling Motorhome Some Advice Appreciated

    Hi, after reading previous threads about selling your motor home, and thinking that I was ready for all eventualities, I finally put my prized possession up for sale on gumtree last night. Almost immediately I had 2 texts from different people asking me to confirm that it was not yet sold and...
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    Is size important?

    I may be obsessing about something which may actually be irrelevent but as part of retirement plan, not mentioned in a previous post, we intend to buy a "new" motorhome later this year. Our current motorhome is 6.55m which I think is long enough. We intend to spend sustained periods in the...
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    Waiting for Froomy

    Currently pitched up at aire in Courchevel, Le Praz, waiting for the final stage of the Criterium du Dauphine tomorrow. (3rd photo) Took a couple of weeks to get here staying at Le Touquet, Le Treport, Samur, Loches, St Paucain, Lyon and Ambert. Lyon and Samur were campsites for proximity to the...
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    Essential Equipment

    Thanks Santa
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