Our Motorhome
This is our third motorhome, having first started out with a Compass Drifter, which really gave us the ‘bug’. We came to motorhoming after many years of camping, and our only regret is that we didn’t have a VW camper much earlier in our lives! The Drifter was a huge success but we wanted more space and also needed a ’van that would allow us to put daughter to bed at her normal bedtime, but not to then have to be quiet as mice for the next few hours so as not to disturb her. We moved on to an Auto-Trail Apache, which had an overcab bed, dinette and rear lounge before getting this lovely ’van.
THE RIGHT DECADE
We’ve owned her for 10 years, which says a lot about the build quality and just how right the ’van has been. She was a chance find, having just been taken in part-exchange by the dealer when we turned up.
The ’van immediately sold itself to us. Just four years old and in lovely condition. Our experience had really helped shape our must-have list – we needed an oven, we wanted a fixed bed as we’d got tired of making up our bed each night, and we had to have a decent shower and toilet. Our daughter no longer needed a bed away from social
