{"id":28196,"date":"2017-07-24T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=28196"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:20:18","slug":"european-motorhome-touring-kit-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/european-motorhome-touring-kit-review\/","title":{"rendered":"European Motorhome Tour – Kit Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"motorhomeAdding it up, our 2001 Hymer B544 Fiat Ducato motorhome<\/a>‘s been our home on wheels across 25(ish) European and North African countries for an 18 month all-season motorhome tour. This blog post aims to give an update on our experience of using this motorhome and the main items of additional equipment we installed.<\/p>\n

We’ve only looked at the bigger stuff here, for a list of all the equipment we pack for touring, here’s our essential packing list<\/a>. There’s also posts about general preparation we did while\u00a0gearing up for a tour<\/a>\u00a0and sorting out van insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The blog post waffles\u00a0on a bit<\/del> is a bit long, so this is a list of the items covered so you can just skim through to find what you’re interested in:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Motorhome Itself<\/li>\n
  2. The GasIT Self-Refillable LPG System<\/li>\n
  3. The 4G LTE Internet Antenna and MiFi<\/li>\n
  4. The Chemical-Free Cassette\u00a0Toilet SOG Unit<\/li>\n
  5. The Solar Panel and Leisure Batteries<\/li>\n
  6. The Michelin Agelis Camper Tyres<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1: The Motorhome Itself<\/h2>\n

    We are very happy with our Hymer B544 motorhome, the second one we’ve had. It took us into the Alps in winter<\/a>, as far north as Nordkapp<\/a> in the Norwegian Arctic in summer, and back south as far as the northern edge of the Sahara in Morocco<\/a>. The weather’s ranged from -10\u00baC (with parts of the van caked in a thick layer of ice<\/a>) to +36\u00baC in Andalusia in Spain<\/a>. The van’s had torrential rain, snow, ice, hail, fog, wind, a golf ball<\/a> and even a one-day dust storm thrown at it<\/a>. The road surfaces have have ranged from brand new motorway (in Morocco, oddly) to dried up river bed<\/a> (again in Morocco, not so oddly). All-in-all, the van’s done us proud. You can have a look around the van using the videos below.<\/p>\n