We've decided that this is the life for us, get away from the UK winter - although it's apparently not been so bad this year - and enjoy the warmth that southern Europe, and North Africa, enjoys. We've also saved money of course on energy costs at home.
Morocco was so enjoyable that we intend to return next year and stay longer, not that we didn't enjoy Spain and Portugal as well. Having planned to be away for longer, we had more time to do "touristy" things, as well as just laze about when we felt like it. We didn't do everything we would have liked, but agreed that it was nice to save it up for another visit.
As last year, we kept an accurate record of our expenditure and are delighted to find that taking everything, including fuel, ferries, food and personal spending money into account (but excluding, of course, the indirect van costs, tax, insurance etc) we spent less than £40 per day for both of us. That's a pretty reasonably priced holiday! We covered just over 7000 miles in the 3 months.
The real life-changer though was the decision to go as part of a group, the crowd from MotorhomeFun who we met through their internet forum. Such a great crowd with similar outlooks to ourselves, we have already been to another "meet" at the Peterborough show, where we had a great time, and have booked two more later in the year.
Bertie performed faultlessly, apart from the minor hiccup right at the beginning of the trip, although we're still screwing bits back together after the Morocco roads. We had a solar panel fitted at Peterborough to take care of battery charging whilst parked up, and have bought some kit from Gaslow to enable us to use an external gas bottle so that we're not dependent on the two smaller refillables.
So now we're getting ready for our next trip - to Provence in SE France. The blog is at:-
www.terryandbren5.blogspot.co.uk
See you there!
