Life in Fifi le Van(1)

Following are some pictures to explain the details of life in a motorhome. Motorhomes these days come fitted with many modern day necessities, and many more can be fitted as after market accessories if your payload and budget allows.
Let's take a closer look at our Chausson Flash 30 from the outside:-

The right side. Large garage door at the rear, bedroom window, washroom window, habitation door, dinette/lounge window, cab. Awning at the top.

Large garage door and a smaller door at the far side. Bicycles, chairs, stools, camp table, luggage and storage boxes, and whatever you don't want inside, is stored here. Access can also be had from inside the 'van by lifting the doublebed which is then kept open by gas filled struts.

Beneath the washroom window is the toilet casette. The loo flushes much the same as your home loo. This casette (box) gets a dosage of 'loo blue' a liquid which acts as a solvent and disinfectant, and takes four days to fill when used by two people. All campsites have ablutions and we use them in the main, but rain or middle-of-the-night needs, means you use the fitted loo. As a rule I empty and service it every four days regardless. For the record, you are unaware of its prescence from inside the motorhome - no odours!

The left side. Bedroom window at the back, kitchen window in the middle and dinette/lounge window in the front behind the cab.

Beneath the kitchen window is the 11kg gas bottle containing 22 litres of LPG. This costs around 50 cents (Euro) a litre on the continent and we have only topped up the bottle twice since leaving the UK costing around 5 Euros each time. The gas bottle is filled in a similar way to filling a car with petrol. No hauling it out and carting it around. Wonderfully easy! To the left of the open hatch is the fresh water filler cap.

The grids or vents are top left the toaster/grill above the cooker, the fridge vent, the hot water cylinder vent and on the right the gas flue.

Fresh water tank holds 130 liters and waste water 110 liters. So even if the warning lights fail you will know when the waste is full you are very low on fresh. Used carefully fresh water can last a week. Steady with the showering! Once again, I mainly use the camp ablutions, Joan sometimes uses 'her own' shower.