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Quick heads up. We'd booked a table and planned to overnight last night (8th June 2022) at the Ladybower Inn. However, the car park was empty and a sign on the door said they were closed due to unexpected circumstances. I have no idea how long the closure might last -- but it would probably be...

What is the preferred method to 'add' useful information, such as physical or administrative restrictions, to a listing? Is this by reporting the POI, adding a review, posting to this forum, or something else? Background: I'm slowly going through the POIs looking for pub stops that can take our...

POI CU Torpoint (GPS 50.378711, -4.206395) is right next to a field that has been taken over by travellers (Cornwall Live article linked below). The group has refused to move to the dedicate site for travellers near Liskeard about fifteen miles away. Cornwall Council say they are to review their...

Just seen the linked article. Apparently Pembrokeshire are trying to outdo Cornwall as the most anti-motorhome county and are now fining wild campers in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It seems that we're "putting lives at risk" and over the weekend, "A total of 19 fines were issued to...

We've just come back from visiting the van to check it was OK (we store half an hour's drive from home) and noticed there was a lot of westbound traffic -- about the same as we'd get on a normal August bank holiday -- with about 10% of the vehicles either a motorhome or tugging a caravan. There...

I'm fuming at SW Lakes, who have erected height barriers at each of the three CR POIs on the western shore of Colliford Lake on Bodmin Moor. I'm fuming because Bodmin Moor is a dark sky landscape and these were among the best locations for using the moho as a mobile observatory. I've reported...

I visited this POI recently and noted that the Council have set up a pay-n-display machine and camping is now banned with an apparent fine up to £70 for transgression. I reported this last week but the entry still says "Location reported (under review)". I've attached a photo of the relevant bit...

I'm posting here to alert others: I recently saw several posts on FaceBook advertising camping chairs. Although the chairs were the same (see piccy), there were a few sellers. Our old chairs are just about worn out and these have canopies that can be folded away when not in use and which also...

I have electrical issues with my 2001 Autotrail Scout (Ducato based) that I suspect might be due to a duff EMC relay. AFAICT most UK motorhomes of this era were fitted with an "EMC Relay", which is a lateral thinking method of getting around the EU EMC regulations for all the habitation...

We store our MH with no mains hookup available at the storage site. However, we have a 100W solar panel on the roof of the van. We're planning to visit our son and his family in Australia for a couple of months next year and are worried about maintaining both the chassis and the leisure...

Someone I met at some recent music festivals has a mid-1990s Compass MH (not sure of the model) in which the dome and spiders of the front skylight has failed. It looks like a 400x400mm MPK but the MPK won't fit as the roof is tapered so that one end of the opening is almost 2" thicker than the...

Our friends are touring with us on our way back up through France. Their water pump has failed, we suspect a ruptured diaphragm. The pump is either a Shurflo or Whale, with the former most probable. We're currently on an aire a few miles south of Brive-la-Gaillarde and plan to route through...

Just a quick note to mention that we found out yesterday that "All the Aires" isn't as up to date as we hoped:( Having visited the battle monument etc. in Verdun, we headed South to Soulosse-sous-Saint-Élophe for an Aire for 20 vans listed in our recently purchased copy of "All the Aires" only...

We're off to mainland Europe later this year and I'm concerned about the recent proliferation of low emission zones. My MH is over 3.5 tonnes MGW and dates from early 2001, so AFAICT it doesn't qualify for a Crit'Air etc sticker. For France in particlular, it seems it might soon be impossible to...

When I took delivery of my MH in August, although the VIN plate gave a MGW of 3850kg, the V5 said 3500 and gave the taxation class as PLG. I didn't receive a V5 in the expected time and so gave the DVLA a ring in September. They said they had not received the V5 and advised me to submit a V62...

We're new to motorhoming and can't figure out how to responsibly empty our grey waste tank. Our motorhome has a vertical dump pipe just forward of the rear axle and about 18 inches inboard of the offside. This has a rod-operated 'slide' dump valve at the end of the pipe. The end of the pipe is...

We picked up our MH from the dealers yesterday. When I committed to buy it, I checked the vehicle plate under the bonnet -- 3850kg MAM, which the salesman verbally confirmed. When we got sight of the V5C to tax it yesterday, the V5 said "Revenue weight: 3500kg, taxation class PLG". The V5 said...

After caravanning since the mid-1980s, we've sold the caravan and put a deposit on an Auto-trail Scout that we pick up in a few weeks time. We plan to use the MH for touring, as accommodation for music festivals (I'm an amateur bluegrass fiddler/mandolin player), and for somewhere to get warm...