Errecting an Awning for the first time!

what a funny but a true story. We have just gone back to caravanning after 20 years off and about to embark on our first trip away this weekend to practice with the awning!!!. Im sure ours will be a similer story.

thanks for sharing yours with us and making us realise 'its not just us'

We too are back to caravanning after a 7 year break. We had a full awning with our old van but never used it as such, just used it as a sun shade when we were on the continent. I eventually sold it. We bought one of the first sunncamp awnings that came out, we used that far more, its first outing being to a rally in Derbyshire where the site was ankle deep in mud, putting any awning up was like mud wrestling!! How ever the porch awning was so easy and quick to erect and many of our fellow carvanners came to ask us about it. We have just bought another sunncamp awning to go on our new van which we collect in 2 weeks time. We have booked a local site to take it for a try out, and will put the awning up on the second day we are there, should be fun!!

Gordon & Sue,

People should not laugh, in fact, this may be how it should be errected, and they may have put thier's up wrong. Maybe you just need your TV aerial turning a little more to the right to get the Disney channel.   John.

Just read your story funny that we have this all to come .Same caravan i think.Swift challenger sport .Going on our virgin voyage 18th april with a dorema awning. Hope it dont end in the big D.