Caravanning converts!

Until last June the thought of staying in a caravan filled myself and Malcolm my partner with horror. How things have changed. We have a horse that competes with a professional rider in 3 day eventing, and the cost of following him around the country staying in hotels was becoming very expensive. So my mother (god bless her) decided to buy us a caravan, something cheap an cheerful to see how we got on. We hadn't a clue what we were buying, but the Bailey Ranger 4 berth was clean and tidy and came with a full service history seemed to fit the bill and the budget. We had only had it 3 days and hadn't used it when the horse picked up an injury and was off for the rest of the season. Now I'll admit if it hadn't been bought for us it would have been straight on a well known auction site, but not wishing to appear ungrateful we thought we had better have an outing in it. Friends of ours who are keen caravanners were determined we would use it and booked us onto a site for 3 nights and came along to help us set up etc. Now I personally thought 3 nights was 2 too many, however we loved it! And so did our rescue Greyhound. The first thing we did when we got home was join the caravan club and booked 2 more long weekends away. We are now completely converted to caravanning, our Bailey has been called Chalky the Hut, has just sailed through its service and we're off for the first outing of 2017 this weekend to Lower Wensleydale. We have 4 more holidays booked and the horse is now fit and ready to compete again, so we are looking forward to following him around the country. A big thank you to the Caravan Club, with your friendly staff, lovely members on sites who offered their help when needed. You have changed our perception completely and we are looking forward to many happy years ahead. We now also have serious caravan envy and will be looking to upgrade Chalky next year.