Caravan to Turkey

Well, it's off for a three month caravan tour to Turkey (and hopefully back) on May the first.

After the similar length trip to Morocco 18 months ago, the preparations, if no less thorough, are a bit less frantic as there are fewer unknowns....er, I think. Sue has been very busy planning the campsites along the route to meet up with the seven other adventurers in San Marino. We've decided to travel through Switzerland and now have a plan that has a maximum travel of 250ish miles in a day. Unlike Morocco, we will not stay on after the guided part of the tour in Turkey itself - it's 5 guided weeks, so should be enough time to absorb the culture. We've purchased the Swiss motorway vignettes on the 'net for the car and van..they will get here in time...


I've added a rear view camera to the caravan, which works a treat. This should make the tricky manoeuvring exercises a little less so as the van is 1cm under 8m long. A bargain priced new Garmin Nuvi sat nav off Ebay with Greece and Turkey maps looks to be a good tool...fingers crossed - I've loaded the GPS coordinates for all the campsites onto it and treated it to a SD card to hold all the data. It's much easier to use than Esmirelda (the Treg's sat nav)..it's so difficult to get the Treg into the study. As before, we'll take a full sized spare wheel for the Treg and two spares for the 'van.

Still not sure how to communicate on the tour as there are problems with Turkish SIM cards. I might just rely on WiFi as and when.We'll see. Taking the satellite dish...can't miss F1. I still remember watching it in Agadir on RTL while listening to radio 5 live over 3G (can be done on Morocco!) with 20 seconds delay. 

Anyway...we're now getting into planning mode and really looking forward to this. Next blog when we're underway.

Car:         VW Touareg 3.0 TDI
Caravan:  Sterling Elite Searcher Twin Axle