A rare 1965 Lynton Majorca holiday home spotted near Dundee.

Over the Christmas and New Year period I was up in Scotland. I couldn’t resist showing this 1960’s rare holiday caravan. It was behind a deserted house in the back garden.

As soon as I saw it I knew it was a rare Lynton Majorca from 1965.

Its many years since I saw one of these and although still intact it was looking worse for wear plus I reckon it had been in that spot for many a year too! It’s still good to see these old holiday homes still surviving.

New Caravan and Motorhome Show venue proved a roaring success and deservedly so.

I am just back from the new Manchester Caravan and Motorhome Show venue – the new Event City was simply brilliant!

This new venue (replacing G.Mex) has made it so much easier to view tourers, holiday homes, park homes and motorhomes. I did all but one G.Mex show (that was the first in 1986) but it had outgrown its venue. The move to Trafford Park Event City has been a big success, no doubt helped by the axed Birmingham NEC show (a great loss I think).

I was there for three days out of the four and I was very encouraged with the vast amount of interest in caravanning and motorhome usage too.

The interior of the Elddis Avante 574 caravan feels modern and easy to live with.

I drove over to Consett to see Elddis Caravans – and checked out four tourers including the brand new Elddis Avante 574 a twin bed end washroom layout. Priced below £16k and weighing just over 1,400 kgs it’s the lightest and cheapest of its kind in the market-for now anyhow!

The Elddis Crusader Shamal, again in the same layout, is a big chunk of tourer but well specified and less than £21k. Checked out the Elddis Xplore too, they are great value and well finished but I reckon there going to have to be given a facelift soon.

Camping and Caravanning Club's site at Delamere Forest is well situated. We can't wait to get back.

Just before Christmas I had a rather busy schedule to get through, but one of my first jobs was to get a Sprite Musketeer EB and take it away for a weekend.

Skoda UK, as helpful as ever, loaned me a new Octavia SE-Plus petrol engine estate. It was going to have its work cut out as I used it to tow another five caravans!!

Anyhow, some months earlier I had driven past the Camping and Caravanning Club’s Delamere Forest site and was impressed by its surroundings.