Using your motorhome through the winter

Last year in La Rosier snowed for 2 days non stop!

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Just gone over to motorhoming 'proper like'. Like the caravan we will use it all the year round, though probably more in the Winter than the caravan.
Off to Cheltenham with friends celebrating New Dawn birthday. Then Aylesbury to the Grandkids, then somewhere maybe over the New Year. Who knows.....
 
Trying out the new van in Dorset for a few days. Staying at Ulwell Cottage campsite, Swanage. It's got everything we want here, really good walks, nice site. It's also got a pub, restaurant and swimming pool, so added bonus for us. We're booked in for Christmas before we go off down to Cornwall to see in the New Year. New van living up to expectations, so two very happy Spritleys at the moment with plans to be off to Europe next March.
 
Ha, you guys don't know how to motorhome....
Spent last night in Tesco car park Rickmansworth. With a day out in London. Quality!!!

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Then a nice Sunday morning walk around the aqua - drome (lakes) which our little pooch loved.

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Kim H said:
We use ours all year round. We’re setting off soon for the Cotswolds and then Cornwall. We always like to be away for New Year too. Last year, we had a New Years Day dip in the sea at Luce Bay Scotland, bracing but wonderful ?
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Mad! Mad!Mad! only whales with plenty of blubber should be in the sea at that time of year you could freeze your gonads off!!!!! then what will SWMBO do.
 
Off to BATH for week in December 150 market chalets set up. Staying at site by canel
Will take photos ?
 
We are WINTER WIMPS, but still manage to use the van all year...

During the colder months the van lives in a nice dry storage hall at Alicante, and we commute regularly by air from Blighty to enjoy the warmer climate. On average, 2 weeks in Spain and 2 weeks in UK, from October to April.

And with sensible planning, surprisingly reasonable cost.

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We're just back from fossil hunting on the north Norfolk coast sharing daughter's VW campervan for lunch. IF she'd told us it didn't have gas heating we'd have taken our Rapido!

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Giving the van a run after getting it back from France and repairs completed. Just arrived at Forest Campsite in Beddgelert, Snowdonia for a few days hillwalking and mountain biking. Very quiet on the site and now pitch black outside but with snow on the peaks prospect looks quite good.
 
This will be our first year using a MOHO in winter so planning to spend Christmas in North Norfolk on a CL site. I am just working out how to lag pipes and the water tanks
 
Southdowners said:
We’re in northern Norway at the moment in -16c daytime temps. We were in Sweden a week or so ago where the temperature in Sweden went down to -22c

We’ve had a few issues. The first was the water pump freezing... I wrote about it on the forum the other day. Concorde have been informed and will make alterations to the heating route to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Yesterday we had another issue... we couldn’t get the flap on the fuel filling cap open as it was frozen solid. We also couldn’t get the LPG locker door open. We poured copious amounts of hot water on them but ended up loosing the barrel of the lock in the fuel flap. We managed to get the lpg flap open after half an hour or so.

All the outside lockers and the garage have locks with flap type opening mechanisms. You insert key, turn then open using the flap. The fuel and lpg have the different opening mechanisms that you turn the key and the inner piece pops out, you then rotate to open. In these temperatures they just didn’t work. In future we won’t lock them.
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Brrrrrrrrrr sod that
5° here in belgium and I'm cold lol
 
Liverpoollass said:
Wow!! Was that what you could see with the naked eye?
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Yes, we saw them with the naked eye.

Often we saw wisps of grey but we didn't bother with them. If you were to photograph those feint wisps they would show up but not in a spectacular way. The really spectacular ones can be seen with the naked eye.

One night we had green, orange, purple, yellow blue. They were forming ribbons and swirls across the sky, moving constantly... they were mesmerising!

The spectacle brings tears to your eyes.
 
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Had our Adria Izola for 3 three years now. Wouldn't think of laying it up for the winter. With the boiler under the bed there's nothing better than laying in a nice warm bed listening to the wind and rain battering the moho. Off to Minehead in a few weeks for the Christmas Fayre at Dunster and then off to Scotland for a week or so. ?
 

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