My Travelog

Morning has broken, the sun has risen and the birds are in full chorus! Day one of your caravan holiday is about to begin at long last! What better feeling is there than setting off on the open road, not knowing where you are headed, your bed for the night and a few other necessities all tidily stacked away in your brilliant holiday home. It provides a sense of freedom! But sadly, freedom comes at a cost according to the article “Towing the line when it comes to caravan security!”

It is all too easy to settle into the holiday frame of mind and to lighten up over your security measures but there is one thing that stops you completely losing your head in ‘Carry On Camping’ world, the opportunistic thief! He is on the prowl and you never know when he’s going to strike, so beware! Lock up your caravan at all times, take out some caravan insurance, immobilise your vehicle and place a wheel clamp over a wheel. All it takes is this and one or two more common sense security practices and you should satisfyingly put paid to any inclination from our criminal fraternity to make off with your beloved prize possession brilliant home on wheels!

You might as well put a big bulls-eye on the outer walls of your caravan for the lack of attention van owners pay to the issue of security! According to the article “Towing the line when it comes to caravan security!” if we all paid more attention to commonsense security measures, we would prevent the theft of our caravans by up to ten times!

With vehicle crime amounting to a staggering nineteen per cent of all crime recorded in England and Wales, we need to address without fail some simple crime prevention measures into our mobile holiday homes! All we need to do is give consideration to a number of simple security issues such as locking our vans and securing windows and hatches ever time we leave and investing in a wheel clamp for times when we are asleep or on a trip out and about on foot.

All this and a few basic maintenance activities (such as checks on our heating equipment and turning of fuel supply when not in use) will not only keep our caravans safe, they will keep our insurance premiums delightfully low!