Preparing Your Caravan For The Trip Abroad

So here's part two. Preparing your caravan is like preparing your vehicle. First of all I'd advise something to make certain things are functional particularly the 4 most significant working areas of your caravan.

Because the above will be probably the most strained elements in your travels. I'd always recommend you ought to have your caravan serviced with a professional!! Besides this make sure that jobs are transported out by properly trained technicians but when something does fail you've something to select from for insurance purposes, which lead me onto my next part.

Make certain you've insurance for the caravan again who knows what could happen, I'm able to hear all of you saying well that's apparent which idiot wouldn't have valid insurance? Well You can be assured it most definitely does happen and individuals do sometimes forget or even the policy has run out of date over here.

This in my experience is an essential task of and it is truly undervalued by individuals. The number of individuals has forgotten to consider something along with you on vacation? I bet the majority of you're saying me!!

My advice here's to begin several weeks ahead of time. I normally begin by thinking what clothes I will take with i and me ask them to washed and set directly into the wardrobes from the caravan. After they have been in the van that's where they'll stay until I recieve to my destination.

My next strategy would be to make certain I've all of the right equipment. The majority of you'll take a look but the number of individuals makes sure that your equipment really works correctly? Very few I believe.

I make certain I've got a spare of the most basic items as an example the leg winder!! I've really finished up the legs of my van hitched up and hang off completely failing to remember to place the winder back. Fortunately I've got a spare thank heavens for that you could see where I'm going here.

Have you got enough Gas? Have you got a spare battery? Have you got a charger? Is the electric cable working? Have you got a spare just in situation it will get broken? There are lots of issues that can arise so why wouldn't you have a couple of extra days to completely prepare.

The following component of my military-style packing is always to create a list from the food I will take, just how much must be within the fridge etc. How good can i pack my food more often than not for lengthy journeys you need to virtually wedge your cupboards as you wouldn't want items to be bouncing around. Would you make sure that all of your cupboard doorways are shut correctly before leaving? Again this can be a must and that i recommend you need to do this if you do not already.

The golden rule here s to spread it, an excessive amount of in front your van will dip in front this really is harmful to towing and puts way too much pressure around the towing equipment particularly in warm weather!! An excessive amount of behind again just like above an excessive amount of pressure is inflicted around the towing equipment.