When was the last time a volcanic cloud disrupted your caravanning? It’s hard to believe sitting here in Lincolnshire on a glorious day that the atmosphere is so potentially dangerous that planes still can’t fly.
It is fair to say that this is an unprecedented World event and seeing the Dunkirk spirit of people does restore a bit of faith in humanity.
My son is stuck in Australia and it could be at least another 12 days before we have any chance of getting him home. Is he bothered? Not a jot! I’ve asked his school to email homework for him – that went down well!
It’s interesting that the ash is actually having an effect on people going caravanning and some of my caravan insurance customers are having the odd problem. For example, the no-fly zone has packed more traffic onto ferries. People who didn’t make bookings, thinking that there’s always space at this time of year, are now struggling.
One customer I spoke to yesterday decided to abort his flight-based holiday to Spain and take the caravan across to France… instead only to discover half way to Dover that his car didn’t have European cover. Fortunately because he insures with Shield his caravan was covered and we were able to help him with his car insurance too. Lucky he remembered!
With the growing threat of terrorism, airline disruption caused by strike action and now a cloud residue from an Icelandic volcano, the airline industry is being dealt a blow from which it will struggle to recover. Sadly there will be casualties from this and I fear that more airlines will go to the wall impacting on many summer holidays.
This may be very good news for caravanning however, and dealers are reporting growing interest in caravan sales. If your summer holidays plans are changing, you should all check that your caravan insurance covers you for the time you will need abroad.
This Friday I am off to Peterborough for the National Park & Holiday Homes Show being run by Warners. You’ll find me on the Shield stand no.28. Come and have a chat.