New season preparation 10-point checklist
With spring just around the corner, make sure your motorhome is in tip-top shape for the touring season with our practical checklist
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With spring just around the corner, make sure your motorhome is in tip-top shape for the touring season with our practical checklist
Caravan and motorhome owners who like to catch up on a bit of sailing when they’re on holiday are a bit stuck if they...
Android smartphone owners are now longer stuck with browsing for new apps on the small screen of their device — Google has just launched...
There are quite a few shopping comparison apps for the iPhone (Amazon’s is excellent) — the idea being that if you’re shopping on the...
Staying within your motorhome’s weight limits is critically important. If your vehicle is overloaded, you can be prosecuted and fined, but more importantly (and...
Our Gentleman Jack Bancroft is an irredeemable motorcaravaning enthusiast. His family have been camping, caravanning and motorcaravanning since 1928. Jack and his wife Flora...
There’s nothing like being prepared for an emergency, but we’ll leave it to you to figure out what circumstances the Premier Inn Mobile app...
There’s been some discussion in the Practical Caravan forums about the Amazon Kindle 3, along with ebook readers in general and the thread has...
If your preferred pitched tend to be off the beaten track, but you get a bit twitchy when there’s no mobile phone signal, the...
The problem with most motorhomes is that while they free you from the confines of urban living to a certain extent, they’re still reliant...
BT Broadband subscribers get free and unlimited roaming Wi-Fi access via its commercial Openzone and residential FON hotspots, and while it’s relatively easy to...
We’re not quite sure of the origins of this YouTube video dating from 2008, but we stumbled across it the other day and thought...
Another week, another new Google app for smartphone owners. Google Places is a free app for iPhone and Android that uses your location to...
Our Gentleman Jack Bancroft is an irredeemable motorcaravaning enthusiast. His family have been camping, caravanning and motorcaravanning since 1928. Jack and his wife Flora...
It’s always worth carrying a basic toolkit in your ’van. It’s handy for fixing annoying problems such as leaky pipes and broken window latches,...
There’s little doubt that the smartphone is going to be the one gadget that we’ll all be carrying in our pockets before too long...
Here are a couple of useful mobile apps for anyone planning on a trip to France in the near future.
Battery-powered portable vacuum cleaners usually suck — and not in a good way. The problem is usually that the power source is insufficient to...
Our Gentleman Jack Bancroft is an irredeemable motorcaravaning enthusiast. His family have been camping, caravanning and motorcaravanning since 1928. Jack and his wife Flora...
Our Gentleman Jack Bancroft is an irredeemable motorcaravaning enthusiast. His family have been camping, caravanning and motorcaravanning since 1928. Jack and his wife Flora...
iPhone alarm clock bug leaves users of the UK has yet to return to work after the Xmas break, which is just as...
Judging by our Forum string, I’m not the only one whose thoughts turned to their pride and joy as the snow kept falling and...
We’re still some way off from the kind of ‘universal translator’ that kept episodes of Star Trek free from subtitles, but the technology to...
Google has updated its Maps application for Android smartphones to add two major new features. Google Maps 5.0 not only brings offline access to...
iPhone and iPad users looking for a low-cost sat-nav app to see them through the Xmas period would do well to check out new...
As anyone who’s had a laptop stolen or damaged will know, as frustrating as the material loss is, it’s the data that goes with...
Speed cameras have long been criticised as being little more than a way for regional police forces to raise revenue, while doing little to...
Our Gentleman Jack Bancroft is an irredeemable motorcaravaning enthusiast. His family have been camping, caravanning and motorcaravanning since 1928. Jack and his wife Flora...
It goes without saying that you should never leave a dog locked in any vehicle in hot weather, but this video shows a good...
Timed perfectly to coincide with the Xmas shopping spree, Halfords has rolled out a new mobile version of its web site for shopping on...
Whether you want to tour in the UK or on the Continent, satellite TV is a great way of keeping up with your favourite...
You don’t need electric hook-up to enjoy a good holiday. In fact, equipping your van to survive without it gives you greater freedom and...
We’re pretty sure that Superman had a Supervan at some point in his comics crime-fighting career (though it’s anyone’s guess what he needed one...
As anyone who’s wintering in a ’van knows, the weather has taken a turn for the worst just lately. And, when it’s well below...
I've just returned from a tour of Bouches-du-Rhône and the Southern Var, in Provence, and was surprised to see how motorhome-unfriendly it is down...
I was watching Countryfile a few weeks back, and up popped John Craven in an Ace motorhome. I remember coming across an interview John...
Hopefully, most Practical Motorhome readers are now comfortable with the new forum system, but posting images still seems to be an area for some...
It’s one thing to think about altering the interior of your motorhome to add a personal touch or two, but customising the exterior is...
Motorhome and caravan security is a perennial problem and few anti-theft measures will deter a determined thief. That certainly seems to be the case...
If you thought changing the clocks from BST to GMT at the weekend was confusing, spare a thought for the poor iPhone. Like many smartphones,...
Wireless charging pads are the current big must-have amongst gadget fans - instead of having to plug your phone, laptop, etc. into a charger,...
OK, so it’s not strictly a motorhome, but it’s easy to see the possibilities offered by the Dymaxion concept car that dates from 1933. Designed...