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Preparing for a motorhome trip of any length should be part of the adventure. This collection of blog posts looks at how we prepare for our motorhome trips and gives hints and tips for how to make the days and weeks leading up to your adventure run smoothly – and how to ensure we don’t forget the potato masher (again)!

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The Best Tyres for a Motorhome in 2025?

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Which are the best tyres to fit to a motorhome in 2025?
The Motorhome Touring Handbook - Available on Amazon

The Motorhome Touring Handbook

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The Motorhome Touring Handbook is the essential hands-on, practical guide for planning to tour Europe in a camper, RV, campervan or motorhome.

Want a Custom Motorhome Itinerary, Built Just for You? Ask AI

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Want someone to build a custom motorhome itinerary for you next trip? Why not ask an Artificial Intelligence? Seriously, this is now possible.

How to Escape to Spain, the Ryanair & AirBnB Way

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We'd two weeks free and craved sunshine, so booked an AirBnB, Ryanair flight and hire car and headed to the Costa del Sol. Here's how.

Free Beginner’s Guide To Motorhomes and Camper Vans

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If you’re thinking of hiring or buying a motorhome, our Beginner's Guide to Motorhomes and campervans will quickly get you up to speed on several key topics.

Buying A Motorhome? Here’s What We Considered When Buying Ours

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If you're thinking of buying a motorhome there are quite a few things to consider. We've outlined what was important to us when we bought our van.

No more wet towels stinking up the motorhome

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We've found the perfect motorhome towel. Micro-towelling so they feel nice, and dry quickly so we don't have wet towels stinking up our van.

It’s 2021 – When Will Motorhome Travel Be Possible Again?

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How might motorhome and campervan travel within the UK and abroad be restarted during 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Just bought a motorhome? A Survival Guide for new motorhome owners.

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If you've just bought your first motorhome, campervan or…

Brexit Considerations for a European Motorhome Tour

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The Brexit transition period ends in a few days on 31 Dec 2020. Here's the latest about the impact on motorhome travel for UK citizens.

Motorhome Trip Abroad Preparation in a Global Pandemic

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We'd like some winter sun, but have come across issues while we preparing to travel abroad in our motorhome during a pandemic and Brexit.
Motorhome Pitch at Sango Sands Campsite, Durness NC500 Scotland

5 Tips for a Motorhome Staycation

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Our top tips for taking a motorhome or campvan holiday staycation in England or Scotland this summer, from renting a van to using a safety checklist.
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Motorhome Review – Amazon Kindle

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Motorhome life gives you loads of reading time. A Kindle will save space and weight in your van, and is great for getting new English books when abroad.

Product Test – Window Vac for a Motorhome Windscreen

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After many years thinking about it, we finally bought a window vac for our motorhome. This review will tell you if we think it was worth it!
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Motorhome Christmas Gift Ideas

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Us motorhomers are difficult to buy Christmas gifts for. We've listed some of the things we love which may help you with a gift for a motorhome owner.

Returning to the UK While on a Motorhome Tour

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Hints and tips for taking a quick trip back home to the UK while out on a long-term motorhome, RV or campervan tour of Europe.
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Our Top 3 Countries in Europe for Motorhome Travel

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Which are your favourite countries in Europe to travel by Motorhome? Here are our top three, why we loved them and the downsides we encountered.
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Streaming UK TV into a Motorhome in Europe

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Want to be able to watch UK TV in your motorhome while you wander continental Europe? No problem. Here's one easy way to do it.
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The Death of the Year Long Motorhome Tour of Europe?

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When the UK leaves the EU (Brexit), year-long motorhome tours of Europe may be a thing of the past when the 90 day in 180 days Schengen Area rule kicks in.

OurTour Motorhome Packing List

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When I originally wrote our motorhome packing list of everything…

How to Escape in a Motorhome

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We've put together this short 'how to escape in a motorhome' guide, based on our experience of serial motorhome escapism over the past 6 years.
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European Motorhome Tour – Kit Review

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Adding it up, our 2001 Hymer B544 Fiat Ducato motorhome's been…

10 Top Tips for Motorhome Travel in Europe

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After several awesome years travelling Europe by motorhome, we've picked up a few tips. Here are our top ten tips for Motorhome Travel in Europe.

Always-On Internet, Everywhere: The MiFi

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We like having Internet access in our motorhome. We use a a MiFi device which gives us access everywhere we go. We're impressed enough to recommend it.

Handy Free Websites and Apps for Motorhome Travel

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We've revealed our treasure trove of handy free websites and apps that we use to make our lives easier while we tour Europe in our motorhome.

Become fluent in any language – sort of! Google Translate.

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We've a fantastic tip - Google Translate. Did you know you can now use it on your phone, offline and with images? Perfect for the motorhomer abroad.

Insurance, breakdown cover and other stuff

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On a regular basis we get asked who we use for our various insurances.…

Winterisation – Living in a Motorhome in Winter

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OK, I'll fess up here: although we've lived in a motorhome through…

In Between Motorhome Tours – Costs to Prepare

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As we prepare for our next long-term motorhome tour, we run through the costs we've incurred so far.
Graphic showing preparation of a motorhome for a tour of Europe. Includes internet antenna/MiFi/SIM, refillable LPG gas, SOG Thetford Cassette, Tyres, Legal, Satnav and Solar Panel.

Infographic: Preparing a Motorhome for Long Term Travel

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Inforgraphic outling the main areas to consider when preparing a motorhome for a long-term trip.

Our Thoughts on Off Grid Motorhome Life

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I’ve just finished reading 'How to Live Off-grid' and thought I'd write about our experience of living in a motorhome, without permanent grid connections.
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Installing a GasIT Self-Refillable LPG System

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How I installed a GasIT Self-Refillable LPG System to our 2001 Hymer B544 motorhome. I'm not a gas professional, but a competent DIY installer.

Zagan’s Connected! Our new 4G Internet System

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Our step by step guide to installing a roof-mounted antenna and Huawei MiFi on our Hymer B544 motorhome for internet access on the road.

Installing a SOG Unit on a Thetford Chemical Toilet

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Instructions and videos of how we installed a motorhome toilet SOG unit onto the Thetford cassette toilet of our 2001 Hymer B544 motorhome.

How did we afford two years on the road? Total tour costs.

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A breakdown of our costs for preparing and undertaking a two year motorhome tour around Europe (including a nip home for an MOT!).
Motorhome Morocco - out now as a printed book!

Motorhome Morocco – An OurTour Guide

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Following independent motorhome tours of Morocco, we've written and comprehensively updated our book to help you do the same. Motorhome Morocco, An OurTour Guide will help you take your motorhome, campervan or RV to this fascinating country.
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Motorhome Packing Tips

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Packing for any trip can be tricky, but packing a small(ish) motorhome for a year-long trip is particularly troublesome. Here are our top packing tips.
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200 Days in, Our Top Ten Things For a Motorhome Tour

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On day 100 we wrote about our top then things in Dave our motorhome…

Review – Caxton FX Prepaid Euro Credit Card

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Description of It The Caxton FX credit card is a pre-paid…

Motorhome Review – 100W Solar Panel Kit

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Description of It We self-installed a 100W 12V solar panel…

Ten Fears – Why You Shouldn’t Take that Trip

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After six months full time touring in our motorhome, we outline the fears which might hold back UK-based motorhomers from making a trip around Europe.
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Planning to drive in Portugal? My experience

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Various sources of information about road safety in Portugal…
Motorhome Costs by Country Spreadsheet Comparison Tour

Financial Preparations for a Motorhome Tour

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While we're touring Europe in a motorhome, we have to budget carefully. This is how we financially prepared for our tour and how we track what we've spent.
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10 Things We Wish We’d Packed In Our Motorhome

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Weight in a motorhome is limited, after months travelling we review - what we wished we hadn't brought, wished we had brought and are glad we did bring.

Taking our Motorhome to the Weighbridge

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Like the ultimate weigh-in at the airport check-in desk, we take our motorhome to the weighbridge ahead of a year-long trip, to check we are legal.
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Motorhome Preparation – The Money Bit

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As our one year motorhome trip preparation continues, thought you might be interested in the costs we've incurred so far.

Motorhome solar, security and shelving

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Work continues to prepare our motorhome for a year-long trip in Europe. We've shelved the wardrobe, fitted a solar panel and security for the back door.

How to Calculate Your Budget For A Long-Term Motorhome Tour

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We're planning to tour Europe for a year in a motorhome. How do you calculate a budget for a motorhome tour? We've given it our best shot.

Solar panel Considerations

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We discuss all the things things we need to consider consider before we commit to buy and install solar panels on our motorhome.
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Pooch Chariot

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We decided to get our dog Charlie a bicycle trailer, which we've named his pooch chariot. We got a child bike trailer on eBay and removed the seat.