Busy and holidays

[pvaneynd]

I've been very very busy at $work. It is interesting, but the learning curve is very steep. But I'm having fun being able to break stuff and opening bugs for them. The team is also terribly smart and has a good atmosphere.

In other news we are looking at possible holiday destinations. The prime candidate is some coastal resort in the UK. Mostly because the UK is good for people with allergies and to visit Legoland Windsor.

For future holidays we are considering again the mobile option, but this time we are thinking of a caravan. First investigations show it is rather difficult to hire one to try it out, and that having a place to put it at the Belgian coast would cost around 2000 € a year. I still need to look at the Dutch coast and investigate hiring one there. But for this year it seems the UK will be without one.

Damn I really have to go to work. Sorry about this stream of conscience mess.

Comments

[bramsmits.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking caravan as in "tow behind a car" or the kind that stays in the same spot for years?
Renting is quite possible (at least here in the Netherlands) but pretty expensive. If you want a new one (1-2 years old) renting can work, but if you don't mind it being a bit older you can often buy a used one for less than it would cost to rent plus recoup most of your money flogging it on marktplaats (or kapaza in your case...). Around here, fairly expensive part of .nl, storage is about 50 euros per meter length. In other words my folks pay about 250 euros to store their 4.20m (plus about a meter hitch) caravan. Lots of farmers converting old (and sometimes quite new) barns into caravan storage.

[pvaneynd]

caravan as in tow-behind-car :-)

Interesting ideas. We were thinking to leave it somewhere and use it as a weekend-house. Is this a bad idea?

[bramsmits.livejournal.com]

Depends on your intended usage. If you're planning to be there regularly (as in couple of weekends per month) it's a good idea. If you're going to be there maybe 5 or 6 times per year, it's a bit more work but a lot easier to find a storage (perhaps close to the camping) and take it to the camping when you use it.
Advantage of leaving it at the camping is that you don't have to pack stuff away nor haul the caravan around. Advantage of storing it is that it's cheaper, and easier to explore a little and find a place you really like, or go to different places each time.