Driving Horizons - Campervan & Travel

Episode 46 – Visiting South Lytchett Minster – Pubs, Parks & Campgrounds – Number 2 in #20in2022

Welcome to this week's show, when I visit South Lytchett Minster in Dorset. We take a trip to Upton Country Park, and enjoy tea at a local pub.
This episode talks all about the campsite, the surrounding area and what we thought of the campground.
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Episode 45 – Wilton Windmill and the first county of my 20in2022

Welcome to this week's show, when I take you to Wilton Windmill, before a night stopover in Henley on Thames, at the Caravan and Motorhome Clubs Henley Four Oaks campground.
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Episode 44 – All about our Lake District Disaster!

Welcome to this week's show!
In it, I discuss a couple of pieces of industry news that has caught my eye, plus, at long last, I talk about our ill-fated and disastrous trip to the Lake District.
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Episode 43 – I’ve set myself a 2022 challenge. “20in22”

Welcome to this week's episode, when briefly explain all about a little challenge I have set myself.
Can I visit 20 different counties in 2022? Have a listen to see why, and what my plans are!
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Episode 42 – Is Bigger Better? Are we replacing our VW California?

This week I talk all about the hired van we thought we would try out. Is Bigger Better? Are our days of camping in our VW California numbered?
Have a listen to find out!
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Episode 41 – Surviving the NEC Caravan Camping and Motorhome Show 2022

On the 25th and 26th of February, we visited the NEC Caravan Camping and Motorhome Show.
5 halls. Hundreds of suppliers. Thousands of visitors.
These are my thoughts.
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Episode 40 – Our Top 11 Apps we use for Travel and Camping

Welcome to Episode 40, when I quickly discuss our the Best Apps we use when traveling or camping.
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Episode 39 – A Prelude to the Lake District, and the NEC Show

Welcome to today's show, a quick prelude to the week ahead and what we will be getting up to when we visit the Lack District.
We are collecting a hire vehicle to use for 3 nights, before exploring the Lakes and around Windermere, and Coniston.
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Episode 38 – Devon: Awesome Touring Park, Langstone Rock, and Jacobs Ladder

Welcome to today's show!
Today I talk briefly about an awesome touring park I stayed at. Then I talk about a few great sites that are easy to visit, and in beautiful locations in Devon.
This includes Langstone Rock, Jacobs Ladder, and Byes Riverside Park.
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It is Friday, the 11th of February, this is episode 38 from welcome back to driving Horizon's. And low, hello, hello and a good morning, a good afternoon and a good evening to whenever or wherever you are listening to this.
Richard here, welcome back to the podcast. If you are new here, then welcome. And if you aren't a regular, then of course, welcome back. So it's been a busy week, mainly in the office this week. I've been doing lots of editing to get some videos out.
Last week show you may have heard me talk about the motor home and camper van show or the now set motor home camping show I went to. So I'm not going to talk about that this week. You can find all about that in last week's episode, but what I am going to talk about this week is some
of the amazing things that I did while I was down in that part of the world. So the motorhome and camper van show was in West Point in Exeter and I stayed down there. I saw some sites around Exeter and a couple of places on the way back, so stay with me to hear about the suggestions I've
got for the area and the great places that we were that I visited when I was down there. I spotted a couple of things this week in a magazine that I wanted to and I wanted to share with you.
I picked up a copy of the Practical Motorhome magazine, which talks about much of homes and camper vans and things like that. I don't think it really touches too much on on caravans, but on one of their pages, they were talking about the site winners that are judged and awarded by the AA.
And one of the campsites that they have awarded Campsite of the Year to for Wales is one that we visited a couple of years ago. And just by chance, because I put this video out long before I saw this magazine, I recommended this campsite for one that we would definitely revisit in 2022.
So it looks like the AA have good taste because if I can recommend it, then obviously it's good enough for them as well. And the other thing I saw in there was something called night stops. Now night stops is I don't know if anyone's familiar too much with Harvest's hosts that they have in in America is basically
businesses, you know, things like wineries, breweries, places that have lots of land where you are allowed to register and all these caravans, motorhomes, whatever they want to call them over there can park for free. But they are expected, I guess, is the word to use the services of the venue at your park here.
So if you're staying at a winery, a winery, have a wine tasting or by a couple of bottles of wine, if you are staying at a brewery, maybe have dinner there or try out some of the bears is kind of a Win-Win situation because the Tories can park for free and the businesses get people there to spend
money and they're buying their goods and services and just giving up space that would otherwise be sat idle when empty. So they're placing this thing in the UK is called night stops and I've only ever seen in the last couple of months and we have something around Europe corporate stocks, which is quiet, which is quite similar, but
this just looks a little bit less. You know, you don't have to sign up for anythi
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Episode 37 – Visiting the Westpoint Exeter Motorhome and Campervan Show

In today’s show, I give you a rundown onmy first Motorhome and Campervan Show of the year. I walkd around almost 20 vans, opening and closing things, checking out bathrooms and toilets, fridges and cookers.
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It's Friday, the fourth of February, this is episode 37, and welcome back to driving Horizon's.
Hello, hello, hello and good morning. Good afternoon and good evening to whenever and wherever you are listening to this Richard here and welcome back to the podcast.
If you're new here than welcome and if you are a regular, then of course, welcome back. Well, another week has passed us by, and if you've been out and about in your vans of hope, you've had as much fun as as I did the weather last weekend, particularly for January.
On Saturday morning in particular was it was pretty spectacular on the South Coast anyway. What about 50 degrees, which doesn't sound warm for January in England? It was almost tropical.
As you probably heard from previous shows, I have been planning to go to the West Point Exeter Motor Home and camper show, which I did last weekend.
Really, really good fun. It wasn't as big as the NBC one's going to be, obviously, but that was still, I reckon, is the best part of 100 vans there on show lots and lots of motor homes and larger campervans.
And they also had a smaller selection of the V dampers in the caddies and the Ford Nuggets and other smaller brands on show as well. And what can I tell you about it? Well, I had a good nose around quite a few vans and there was no real new sort of, you know, state of the art brand
new of the production line, 2022 ideas and clever things there. This week it was all mainly second hand ones that were being resold. And on that, one thing that surprised me, I got talking to somebody from South West.
I think it was Southwest campervans or South West Motor homes, and this was about midday. Maybe now, maybe a bit later there, maybe at 2:00 on the first day, and they told me that it already sold six vans and they were expecting to do at least 20 over the weekend.
Now, bear in mind that the Friday was probably going to be the quieter day.
Maybe not, actually. Maybe people were going there to have a good look around before we got too busy. I don't know, but you know, six vans in the first four or five hours.
I think that just goes to show how much of a demand there is for the motorhomes and campervans and the whole van life and RV and whatever you want to call it, was a bit of an eye opener for me, to be honest with you, you know, thought that have come away from there hoping to sell half
a dozen over the whole weekend, let alone six in the first four hours and 20 odd 20 plus over the three days. So I think that goes to show how how in-demand these vehicles are. And if you've been doing it for now, I've done it for very long, very, very since 2017, say, four or five years we've
been doing it for. There's something that they've been doing it for decades, but there's a lot of new people going into it. So if you see something you like, I definitely suggest snapping it up because, you know, who knows how long it's going to be hanging around for?
So what can I tell you? Well, the one thing that struck me as the most as I was wandering around was how different, even slightly some of the vans and motorhomes are. You know, there doesn't seem to be one perfect layout.
I think that the the perfect layo
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