Last Saturday we attended the Annual Social Event put on by Automotive Leisure the suppliers of Eva the Eriba....
It is always good to pop along and meet up with other owners and also see the latest models and gadgets for the Eriba range of touring vans.....
We have attended the last three events in order to keep us up todate with everything Eriba....
This year my main interest was in a prototype of a new inflatable awning that is based on the awning that was destroyed in the recent storms.....
This new awning is made from the same material that our previous awning was made from... this was a material that we really liked as it was easy to keep clean with just a quick wipe over with a damp cloth and it also didn't fade.
Our current summer awning made by Kampa fades really badly and it is also not very easy to keep clean.....
The roof being made from a white material shows every mark .... it looks fine from the outside but from the inside you can see every mark....not really a very sensible colour when you think about it.....
The protoype awning which we viewed at Automotive Leisure seems to tick all the boxes for us and it also seems to have avoided a number of the errors in design that Kampa made with our current awning......
Unfortunately the new awning won't be available until after June this year.....
Our plan is to continue with the Kampa awning for this summer season and then buy one of these new awnings in September/October......
One interesting thing to be found in the village of Moreton is the grave of T.E.Lawrence known as Lawrence of Arabia......
His cottage 'Clouds Hill' is just a couple of miles away from the village and is well woth a visit if you are ever in the area.....
Lawrence once described Clouds Hill as his 'Earthly Paradise'.
He finished writing his account of the Arab Revolt 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'here, and he made friends with Thomas Hardy who was then living at Max Gate in Dorchester......
Another thing to be seen in the village is something that will be of interest to all you Post Box enthusiasts out there.....
This post box can be found on the outside of the old post office.....
It has been a while since I have posted an image of a post box so I thought that I would share this one with you....
Something else of interest in the village are the Moreton Gardens.... more or less opposite the Moreton Tea Rooms... but you will have to wait until my next post to see a few images of that......
It is always good to pop along and meet up with other owners and also see the latest models and gadgets for the Eriba range of touring vans.....
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| Eriba Owners at the Social Event.... |
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| Another view at the Social Event..... |
This year my main interest was in a prototype of a new inflatable awning that is based on the awning that was destroyed in the recent storms.....
This new awning is made from the same material that our previous awning was made from... this was a material that we really liked as it was easy to keep clean with just a quick wipe over with a damp cloth and it also didn't fade.
Our current summer awning made by Kampa fades really badly and it is also not very easy to keep clean.....
The roof being made from a white material shows every mark .... it looks fine from the outside but from the inside you can see every mark....not really a very sensible colour when you think about it.....
The protoype awning which we viewed at Automotive Leisure seems to tick all the boxes for us and it also seems to have avoided a number of the errors in design that Kampa made with our current awning......
Unfortunately the new awning won't be available until after June this year.....
Our plan is to continue with the Kampa awning for this summer season and then buy one of these new awnings in September/October......
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| The Grave of T.E.Lawrence |
His cottage 'Clouds Hill' is just a couple of miles away from the village and is well woth a visit if you are ever in the area.....
Lawrence once described Clouds Hill as his 'Earthly Paradise'.
He finished writing his account of the Arab Revolt 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'here, and he made friends with Thomas Hardy who was then living at Max Gate in Dorchester......
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| For all you Post Box fans...... |
This post box can be found on the outside of the old post office.....
It has been a while since I have posted an image of a post box so I thought that I would share this one with you....
Something else of interest in the village are the Moreton Gardens.... more or less opposite the Moreton Tea Rooms... but you will have to wait until my next post to see a few images of that......
We visited Automotive Leisure when we thought of changing to a caravan, they were very helpful and if we had gone down this route we would have bought an Eriba. They are so well made and easy to tow. Just back from a couple of days in Cirencester and we were lucky with the weather.
ReplyDeletePost boxes are gradually disappearing as Royal Mail monitors each ones usage and if its small they remove it. I didn't realise this until our Postie told me.
@Dave
ReplyDeleteGlad that you had good weather for your trip to Cirencester...the weather has been brilliant over this past week. It's quite amazing to think that just over a month ago we were struggling with the weather that the mini beast gave us....
The disappearing post box situation makes spotting the older and/or rarer boxes that much more difficult.....
Sadly, letter boxes are gradually going the way of public telephone booths.
ReplyDelete@Steve A
ReplyDeleteI'm told that it is called progress Steve.... Everything seems to become obsolete as time marches on.... Even we will probably become obsolete eventually Lol....