LoveBirds_1964
Hello fellow motor home owners!
We are Petra & Gerrit, 50-ish, and fervent campers for years. We live in Leiden, the most beautiful university city in the Netherlands ;-). We camped with our motorbike (Ducati Multistrada Enduro 1200) + tent, car + larger tent, car + motorbike + tent. Because we want to have the ability to go out year round, and avoid as many hordes of people as possible (airports), we thought about owning a camper. To find out if it would fill our needs we decided to rent a camper in April 2019 (Possl). We then visited Wales for a good week. What happened was, which we always had comments on before (look, all those camper people are standing on the most beautiful places, and with the curtains closed they are watching TV!), happened to us too! Screeching winds and pouring rain around our Possl van, and we stayed cosy inside with the heater on, Ipad on my lap, a hot cup of coffee in front of our noses and reading the newspaper, delicious!). All that luxury gets used to quickly! Based on our positive experiences, we decided to purchase a Tonke bus camper on a new Volkswagen Transporter T6.1 base (low emissions was one of the requirements). Equipped with a solar panel, a towbar for our motor trailer and a bicycle carrier will be part of our palace on wheels. The camper will be delivered in April 2020.
As we are both as handy as a bunch of onions, and after seeing 10 kilometers of traffic jams behind a stranded "romantic" T2 camper in Andorra on the winding road through the mountains to the Pas de la Casa, we decided to go for a new one.
Originally the idea was to start looking for a motorhome around our retirement date, but because of our work in acute healthcare (nursing specialists), we know from our experience that every day can be the last one, so we have decided to go for it now under the motto: "All we have is now!"
Well, we hope to be able to exchange a lot of travel pleasure and tips&tricks with you here!
We hope to meet you on the road!
Happy miles!
We are Petra & Gerrit, 50-ish, and fervent campers for years. We live in Leiden, the most beautiful university city in the Netherlands ;-). We camped with our motorbike (Ducati Multistrada Enduro 1200) + tent, car + larger tent, car + motorbike + tent. Because we want to have the ability to go out year round, and avoid as many hordes of people as possible (airports), we thought about owning a camper. To find out if it would fill our needs we decided to rent a camper in April 2019 (Possl). We then visited Wales for a good week. What happened was, which we always had comments on before (look, all those camper people are standing on the most beautiful places, and with the curtains closed they are watching TV!), happened to us too! Screeching winds and pouring rain around our Possl van, and we stayed cosy inside with the heater on, Ipad on my lap, a hot cup of coffee in front of our noses and reading the newspaper, delicious!). All that luxury gets used to quickly! Based on our positive experiences, we decided to purchase a Tonke bus camper on a new Volkswagen Transporter T6.1 base (low emissions was one of the requirements). Equipped with a solar panel, a towbar for our motor trailer and a bicycle carrier will be part of our palace on wheels. The camper will be delivered in April 2020.
As we are both as handy as a bunch of onions, and after seeing 10 kilometers of traffic jams behind a stranded "romantic" T2 camper in Andorra on the winding road through the mountains to the Pas de la Casa, we decided to go for a new one.
Originally the idea was to start looking for a motorhome around our retirement date, but because of our work in acute healthcare (nursing specialists), we know from our experience that every day can be the last one, so we have decided to go for it now under the motto: "All we have is now!"
Well, we hope to be able to exchange a lot of travel pleasure and tips&tricks with you here!
We hope to meet you on the road!
Happy miles!
