So, this is Alice...

So this is Alice. She's four years old tomorrow and she's a Cocker Spaniel. Alice is part of our inspiration to get a caravan, so she could come on holiday with us. Then in June this year, we went on a mini version of our dream holiday and we travelled around Northern France. I say mini version because the dream is to travel around Europe, but we do not yet have the funds! Also, to make the trip affordable, we camped. I hadn't been camping since I was about ten years old (that's fifteen years ago) and I really hate insects. I managed five nights, 2 nights in Rouen and 3 nights in Paris, but we had a huge earwig problem when we came to pack up in Paris and one earwig managed to make it all the way to the next site, but we didn't discover it until we laid down to go to sleep and it was stationed right above my face on the ceiling of the tent. This was after I'd battled all the mosquitoes and hornets at the wooded site near Lille and had spent most of my time in the car. We left the tent and drove 25 minutes to the nearest Ibis!

Back home, going through our holiday pics and reminiscing, we decided we wanted to do it again - but in a caravan. We'd met loads of English people at all of the sites with caravans - mostly retired people who were spending 5-6 weeks there at a time, a dream - and it had left us hungry for new adventures and experiences. Nick, my husband, had already been doing his favourite thing, which is scouring the internet on forums, Ebay, Gumtree and everywhere else, reading up on advice and tips on buying a caravan...