Peter Baber

2 weeks ago | practicalmotorhome.com | Peter Baber

Just our luck. Our long-term Bailey Adamo 75-4I was weeks away from being returned when we had a minor incident in a narrow lane, with a gentle nudge to both rear corners knocking off the GRP fairings. It wasn’t me, but I volunteered to get the damage repaired, because I thought it would be a great opportunity to squeeze in one more weekend with the ’van before it went back.

1 month ago | practicalcaravan.com | Peter Baber

Durham Caravans, one of the North-East of England’s biggest leisure vehicle dealerships, is hoping to get business back to normal as quickly as possible this month, after a fire at their premises which police are treating as suspicious. The dealership sells new and used tourers from some of the best makes of caravan, including Bailey, Elddis, Swift and Coachman.

1 month ago | practicalmotorhome.com | Peter Baber

It is often assumed that models in a brand’s budget range will be the same layouts as the main line-up, just stripped of some spec. But that isn’t always the case. When Adria relaunched Sun Living in the UK this season, it included one layout in its campervan range that you can’t get in mainstream Adrias. I checked out the new ’van, the Sun Living V65 SL, at the brand’s season launch.

1 month ago | practicalcaravan.com | Peter Baber

Xplore reappears for the 2025 season as a separate brand within Erwin Hymer and with a radical new look, designed to attract a much younger audience. None of the three vans launched as part of the range have strikingly new caravan layouts, so are the changes worth it? To find out, I took a look at the Xplore XC Quad, with the ever-popular transverse-bed and end-washroom layout, at Whitfords Caravan Centre in Burnley, Lancashire.

1 month ago | practicalmotorhome.com | Peter Baber

A couple of years ago, when EHG UK announced that it was giving its Xplore caravan brand a major upgrade, it also revealed plans to bring out the first-ever Xplore campervan. Thanks partly to the fallout from lockdown, it took a while to arrive. The four-berth, rear-lounge Xplore CV X8 was launched at the start of the 2025 season, and has now been joined by two more models, the three-berth CV X5, with more storage at the back, and the CV X9, like the X5 but with a pop-top roof like the X8.