Back after 10 years

Hi everyone,

I'm Annette. I'm back!

I was last here with an Eriba Troll and my family with young children. The Troll went with the divorce.

Now my young children are teens and I am back with my new-to-caravanning partner of 10 years.

We have just ordered a Trigano Silver Mini Freestyle 290 and are in the process of completely emptying our garage and having a new garage door installed to welcome our new arrival. It is mainly for trips away when the teens are with their dad and later when they fly the nest. And in years to come maybe it will be a good way of going to visit them, wherever they end up.

We have also just ordered a new car. After lots of research we went for a new Suzuki Vitara SZ-T auto, 1.4 petrol turbo. There were lots of options for such a lightweight caravan so it was hard to choose. We almost got the manual AWD but in the end decided the auto would probably be more useful than AWD and it was only possible to choose auto or AWD. But matches on towcar.info were reassuring for both as well as recent reviews in Practical caravan. There were also good reliability ratings on Which and it comes with the latest safety features as standard. Hopefully we made the right choice.

We've also gone with the same awning (not really awning) as we had with the Eriba, a Cinch Pop up Tent, which is basically a re-make of the Quechua base seconds we had previously and I gave away a number of years ago. That and some kind of sun canopy should be enough for us and easy to put up and down, I never liked the idea of a proper awning. It also has an inner tent that the teens can sleep in, should they wish to join us at any time.

We're excited to start planning a big trip in the summer having not been away anywhere for 2 years. Looking forward to seeing some of you out there on our trips.

For now, here is a picture of the Troll in 2011 with the Quechua Seconds and a sun canopy thing which I made sewing on some awning rail tape to a tarp, but really looking forward to the new adventure.

Annette