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  4. Glad your home safe, I popped into el pino to say hello but unfortunately you were out, thanks for the most detailed and informative travel blogs ever, I hope your already planning next winter at Torrox.

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  5. I have only just found your blog after being recommended by someone on the UK campsite website. I can only say that even after the quick look through I have found answers to a lot of questions.
    Thankyou very much for a very informative blog.
    Les

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  6. Hi! I’m at work browsing your blog from my new
    apple iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading
    your blog and look forward to all your posts!
    Carry on the outstanding work!

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  8. Hello John I have just discovered your wonderful blog and hope you are still caravanning. I am doing some research on my family and childhood. My grandfather Ronald Rogers and my father Philip, along with his two brothers had the campsite at Hookhills Farm, Paignton during the 1960s and early 1970s. I remember going there as a child. Did you ever stay there? If so do you have any memories you can share? I hope to hear from you sometime.
    Take good care
    Susan Rogers

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    1. Hello Sue, Thank you for your kind comments. Although my wife and girls have caravanned in Devon & Cornwall since the mid-60s, we never got to the site you mention. One of our favourite sites was a little way along the coast at Dawlish. We stayed at the site just this last Christmas and were surprised to find that, although it covered a much larger area, it was still being run by the same family as it was more than 50 years ago.

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      1. Good Morning John,
        Thank you for your reply regarding my enquiry for a door lock for a Pegasus 534,and I will follow your advice and contact Fiamma for the lock. Only just found your blog site,which is excellent and much appreciated I’m sure by all! We’re heading to France via Poole and Cherbourg,and am a little apprehensive about what we will find at Cherbourg,hostilty perhaps,aggression from people trying to get to England?… so would appreciate your comments if you have travelled this route during the past few years<… we intend going down to the Loire valley,so any tips you have would be much appreciated…. take care,
        Cedric and Dorothy

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      2. Hello to you both. Thank you for your comments. It’s many years since I – we as a family travelled via Cherbourg. In recent years most of my foreign travel has been between Portsmouth and the Northern Spain ports. Just prior to Covid I did travel via Calais and there were groups of refugees gathering together however, a police presence was never too far away. I don’t think you need to have worries.
        The Loire Valley is beautiful with several fine Chateaus to visit and campsites set out along the river banks. I have some lovely memories of our visits. But sadly that was when my two girls were teenagers. Just now they are talking about early retirement. My best regards, John.

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      3. Thank you for your reply John re Cherbourg…. you also replied in Caravan Chat,to my request for a door lock for my 534,and suggested the Fiamma can you recall how you installed it? was it on a 534?…my concern is how to fit the bottom fixing screws,as I have a heater and cupboard in the way on the inside,and cannot see how they can be removed? Any advice would be much appreciated..take care,Cedric

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      4. Hello again. You appear to have quite a problem with fitting a Fiamma lock. Where the screws come through the sidewall, a square steel plate fits close to the inside panel. After the four nuts are tightened, a plastic cover clips over. Full access is required. Is it possible for you to reach inside the heater cupboard to fit the nuts? Or to fit the handle so that the bottom fixing screws clear the height of the cupboard? J

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      5. Thanks for your reply John,it seems impossible to get behind the heater and cupboard,so will have to see what other options are available,if any…but thanks John

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