Re: Re: 2010 wandering
Hi All,
Just had a fab 2-week trip to Venice driving the 110 and free camping all the way (apart from Venice where we stayed just outside the city at a campsite for security)
We left Dover and landed in Calais, (which was a steal at £60 return!) Headed north to avoid the French tolls and then across to Belgium and into Luxembourg (where fuel was really cheep!) then over to Switzerland, and then down into Italy picking up the cheaper toll roads to Venice, where we had a romatic meal and tangoed in St Marks square !
On the way back we took a slower route though Switzerland playing over several mountain passes and back roads, lots of snow on the ground, but still very warm.
Camping was awesome, waking up to mountain views at 2000mtrs + was a real treat!
The whole trip was about 2900 miles and the 110 performed faultlessly. We did a little bit of ‘Soft off roading’ on some washed out tracks to find suitable camping areas, and met some wonderful people on the way…
Pros for the 110 – Air-con – first time I’ve had aircon in anger (it was 30’+) and its fab!,
MPG – with the speed on the roads being mainly 50mph the wagon gave a good 30mpg with us getting over 400miles from each tank.
6th gear meant the wagon was quiet and just toddling along at below 2000 rpm most of the time
The Dormobile fittings all worked really well, the seats were good for lond distance driving and comfortable for the 10 night camping. The cooker and sink were great and were well used on the trip.
Cons – having to come back to go to work!
We made a couple of wee modifications for the trip – adding some mozzy net over the sliding back window and fitting net over ‘dog guards’ for the 2nd row windows to let a breeze through to keep uo cool over night that was really sucsessful.
we also added some pillows in the space between the beds on top of our storage boxes to give us a bit more bed area that was also a sucsess.
‘The Really Useful Boxes’ were really useful! (http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/) we used them for all our storage throughout the waggon and they suited our needs totaly!
So having never taken the wagon overseas before I found getting to Europe was so easy, It’s just on the doorstep and so varied. (mind you the fab weather probably helped as well !)
Pre planning included talking out an AA European rescue service, chatting to our insurance company, and fitting the beam adjusters to the lights.
Many thanks to everyone who gave us advice – it was really helpful .. so – Next trip planned for Denmark and all points north!
(I Did try to upload some photos but my work computer isnt playing …. so maybe post some next month when I get home)
