21st February 2025

This Friday we took a trip to the NEC to visit the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show. No intention of buying, but to look around and see if there were any good ideas we could add to our VW campervan.

One noticeable change this year was the number of stands selling Lithium batteries. Only a few years ago they were virtually unrepresented at the show. Now everyone was selling them, and their price has plummeted. Still the cost of upgrading probably not worth it, but if I were getting a new van, it would be all electric Lithium powered and no gas.

Some van convertors were having a laugh, more than £100,000 for a VW converted van, and so badly fitted out, no storage, designed for a night away for someone with more money than sense. We did find one company in Shrewsbury, Rolling Homes, who did good conversions of VWs and Fords, in a similar layout style to ours at a reasonable cost. The cabinets were beautiful, all wood. Was rather tempted, but there are years left in our Morrison, our VW. Will keep in mind for the future. Be it a Ford van or a VW T7 van, they are the same and built at a Ford factory. Well we hope there is years left in Morrison. We did have an issue with the ABS sensors which took some time to sort out.

We saw Hamza Yassin a couple of times, briefly at a talk about camping, and then later we watched Hamza participate in a cookery show & chat at the C&CC stand. Looking forward to his new wildlife series on the BBC later this year.