Our home away from home

I thought some of you might be interested in seeing what we’ve purchased (sight unseen!) in the UK to be our transport and our accomodation for 7 months starting in mid-Jun 2012….our 2004 Adria Coral 650SP Motorhome.

I’ve edited some of the blurb below but it’s basically what was written on the website where we found our motorhome, almost by chance when searching the Internet a few months ago. Since then we’ve had excellent service from Graham and Linda at Select First Motorhomes (www.motorhomes-buy-sell-rent.com) in Kent and we can’t wait to get there to take possession of our “home”.

A superb example of the popular and well-built Adria Coral low profile 4 berth motorhome, built on the Fiat Ducato 2.8 JTD maxi chassis with 5 speed gearbox and left hand drive. This is an excellent European tourer with the ever popular fixed rear bed, bathroom/toilet and separate shower (gas water heating). The well-appointed central kitchen has a large fridge freezer, wine rack, grill, hob and microwave, as well as plenty of cupboards and drawers. The front lounge dinette features a short settee, with a half dinette opposite and swivelling cab seats – this area will make up into a second double bed if required. The forward facing ‘pilot’ seats have three point seat belts and driving is enhanced with electric windows, central locking and heated electric mirrors. The motorhome is equipped with a radio/CD Player, a large sunroof, and roof mounted air conditioning which, through an inverter, can be used whilst travelling. There’s also a bike rack, a wind out awning with end enclosures and a TV aerial.

Well, here goes….

As some of you know, Pauline watches Shortland Street most nights, and occasionally I will join her to see what’s going on. The other night, there was a ditzy character named Bella who uttered a classic line when urging her friend Lana to make the most of an opportunity before it was too late: “Caveat emptor, Lana, caveat emptor!”.

Well, Bella, what you really meant was “Carpe Diem” but thanks for the advice – that’s exactly what we’re going to do, very soon. In 103 days, we will be taking off from Christchurch on the first leg of a 2.5 month journey to the UK, via South East Asia, India & Nepal, and Africa….then we’ll be in a campervan around Europe, the UK and Ireland for 7 months or so.

And this blog is hopefully going to be our way of keeping in touch with you all whilst we’re away. In the next few months we’ll post updates as our plans fall into place, and then the idea is to regularly keep you all informed of where we are and what we’re doing. Watch this space!

The first thing I have to do though, is learn how to work this blog….I’m sure I’ll fathom it out.

Cheers

Andrew