If anyone's heading as far east in France as the Alsace region (wine, Great War history, the Vosges mountains and nature reserve, and wine), I can recommend the above municipal site in Obernai - clean, friendy and not too packed in even over a public holiday (French) weekend during August. Less tha...

I had a similar problem with removing some very rusted bolts holding the rack on to the roof, to the extent that I managed to loosen and lose the metal retainers and shear the bolts inside what looks very much like the "A". I therefore now have two very useless holes in the roof, which I ...

We had a similar problem with our car's towbar electrics - same side indicator in fact!! I know you wrote that you'd checked the wiring, but if you haven't opened up the socket it's worth a look there; on ours there was so much corrosion on the connectors side it was a little surprising anything wo...

Hi all, With winter coming, my mind has moved to jobs to do on Bertie before next season, so first question coming up!! Our conversion has CBE units managing the electrickery (hookup, split charging etc), but I like the way that the Willinton split charger units seems to include wiring to reroute t...

Having just spent a successful if darned hot three days Bongoing in the Black Forest, MrsSniff and I have come to the conclusion that an awning is required. I am looking at the F35 Pro 250 in Titanium (silver over green Bongo - colour co-ordination is so important!!) which seems to be a nice lightw...

Hello, hope this is the right forum for this question. I bought a set of the roof rails from the online shop and noticed that the foot has a lip which is clearly meant to fit the roof profile. Unfortunately out AFT doesn't have the same profile (checking the photos of the side rails in situ shows a...

Hello. We are doing some Bongoing around Europe (France, German and Luxembourg) and on our first French site I found to my surprise (although on hindsight perhaps not) that it didn't have the "European standard" hookup points but what looked very much like ordinary indoor sockets. Having ...