paul riley

For our second weekend away in the caravan we decided to venture a little further afield, and set our sights on the New Forest. As mentioned before, the decision to buy a caravan was a little bit spur of the moment, and combined with the popularity of bank holiday weekends, the options on where to stay were a little bit limited as most places were fully booked, or didn't provide the facilities that we wanted. So the decision was made to choose Hill Farm just outside Romsey, which appeared to provide us with the facilities we were looking for (well we are new to this game, I firmly believe that you should have the experience before you try roughing it).

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When choosing the location for our first family caravaning holiday the requirements were very simple.

Firstly as we would be going direct from Viscount Caravans, the dealership we had purchase our used caravan from we wanted something very close, just in case we needed to go back to them with a query. We have been told of virgin caravaners who have picked their van up from Viscount and driven all the way to Scotland before finding a problem.

Secondly, as we were effectively caravan virgins we would need a progressive introduction to the caravanning life, and that would mean fully serviced pitches, its enough to learn to drive, pitch and get water and gas into these things without the extra difficulty of handling the gas side of the fridge and hot water, best left for another day.

So with these two in mind, the fact that the holiday would take place over a bank holiday weekend, and the short notice we had given our selves to book a place to stay, we ended up pulling into the Sunnydale farm camping and caravan site. Read More...