Beiträge von Rover

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Zitat von Linus

    Hey Rover 😃 welcome in this forum from Luxemburg !

    Also i suggest you to take the Phoenix brand in consideration. Quality no nonsense "Reisemobile" without the "bling bling" of the other competitors. Needless to say that i am a happy Phoenix owner 😆😉

    You already know you get access to the whole forum after you have posted 15 posts ? Well this took me two years and now i see your method answering every single welcomepost 😄, clever 😉

    I have replied to your message above, but somehow not quoted yours!

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Hi Linus and thank for your welcome!

    Noted that you are a happy Phoenix owner! I have only stood in one, in Belgium. It was not a very "loved" example I think, so it did not seduce me at all. Though I retain an open mind.

    I think that it is good manners and friendly to acknowledge and to reply in some form to a post that is directed to me......certainly it is my experience and also my reading from others on another forum that a reply and acknowledgement is always welcome.

    And apart from that, I also try to include some content which directly relates to the content of the message received.

    You are right, a bonus is that the quota of 15 is achieved, but now I also reply to you in the same spirit, even if the number is now 19, and so not simply reductable to a formula of "clever" ;)

    Warm regards!

    Timothy

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Hello to The Waiby's

    and thank you for your welcome and for the translation app.

    I will look into it as I have never heard about it. Meanwhile, excuse any unreadable crap from this side!:-))

    I have visited your part of Germany in the past, and like the food there!

    warm regards

    Timothy

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Hi Georgio

    Thanks for your message.

    I also remember 1981...it seems half a lifetime ago!

    I think that even if your memories are still of 1981, you will find that Ireland has changed hugely since that time.

    You will find that with either of your two described vehicles you will be very comfortable with our roads here. Even the west coast roads now are traveled by many such cars, including The Wild Atlantic Way which is now quite popular. Just a little forward planning about direction of travel especially on the Ring of Kerry should help you to avoid any difficulty.

    With a car more than 8.5 meters the route planning becomes more important and maybe not all mountain roads will be suitable.

    Thanks for your message & welcome

    Good luck!

    Timothy

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Many thanks Thomas for your welcome, and for the warning!

    Yes, clearly it is easy to say yes to many options and to have a moment of weak knees when you see the bottom line!

    Timothy

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Hi Martin

    and thank you for the welcome and feedback. I am using google chrome with translate function which seems to work quite well most of the time. My first impressions are that this works a little better than the english interface on the site does, but I will explore further.

    When your sister lives near Cork, then she will be familiar with my grey skies!...and today with the beginnings of an Atlantic weather system!

    Best regards

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Thank you for the welcome and feedback. I could also have included Phoenix in my list of possibilities. I'm open to this model as well of course. Apologies but I could not see your name!

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Thanks Wolfgang. Unless the seas rise faster than we think, Ireland will still be here if you decide later! ;)

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Thank you Axel, and happy that you have a nice connection with Ireland.

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Hi Ralph

    thank you for your words and encouragement......and also for the little laugh from your comment about natives having problems with their own language! :-)) this is so true...and not only in Germany!

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Zitat von x-file (Frank)

    Hello Timothy and welcome to the LinerTreff. Here you can get information and know-how about larger vehicles. For us (come from the caravan) it was a process in which direction it would go. So we informed and searched for a long time. Only through this forum did it become concrete relatively quickly and we decided on a Concorde, actually 2 sizes larger than planned. We have not regretted it for a minute after 2 years. You grow with your tasks. We wish you every success in your search. Here in the forum there is one or the other from UK.


    Greetings Karin and Frank

    Thank you Karin & Frank for your reply, and indeed for your encouragement!. which is especially welcome as sometimes I can lose confidence ! and wonder if I am having a crazy moment with this project!! :/

    I too am now looking at a car much larger than I first imagined. I have already made two trips to Germany to look at cars (in the south at Schmidtmeir, and also at Engel near Frankfurt) and the result is that I only begin to feel comfortable at the size of Charisma 8.9m plus. Fortunately I have a full C license, though driving a truck "on the wrong side of the road for me" will be a challenge. Anyway, that is a question for later!

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Thank you for your welcome Bertolt :thumbup:

  • Preisentwicklung der Hersteller

    Fascinating discussion!

    I am finding this discussion very interesting. I am looking every day on mobile.de as I am searching for a camping car!

    Of course I hope that the prices will decrease so I can find one at a good price.......although of course, if I buy one, then I will be hoping for prices to move again in the positive direction! :D

  • Greetings from Ireland.

    Hello from the grey and rainy south of Ireland..

    First, I must say that it feels a little strange to be here posting a message in English on a German speaking forum. I apologise if this is inappropriate, but I speak German not at all.

    Of course I can manage to follow a good enough amount of the content of the forum with the help of Google-translate, but of course there is the constant possibility of idiocies and misunderstandings of context on the part of mr google, and myself.

    Second I must also say that I am not yet the owner of a liner!

    I have put Concorde Charisma in my description as this is the one that I would like to have, but also possibly a Liner, and also it could be

    a Morelo. The point is that I am searching for a used vehicle, so I spend a lot of time looking on mobile.de and hopefully I will find a vehicle that suits my idea of what will suit me best.

    I have not owned a camping car previously. So it is all new.

    In this case also I regret that I will not have any technical knowledge to offer. But I will be happy to offer local knowledge about Ireland if someone has a question about travelling here :-)) .

    for those who have already been to Ireland, you will not have seen many large local motorhomes, if any at all. There are many reasons: roads and facilities are limited in many places for

    large vehicles; local taxes for importing of vehicles is 13% on top of the full value, and finally, it is extremely difficult to find an insurance product for a leisure vehicle in excess of 3.5 tons

    Or a value more than €130k. This being the case, I have been a long time trying to find a solution to this apparent impasse. Because of this challenge, and the delays caused by Covid

    I am 3 years older than I had hoped to be when I finally arrive at getting "on the road".!!

    (My current solution envisages using a french company structure to own the car,!! complicated

    for sure! ) :P

    Some personal info:

    I am a retired Business owner and Academic.

    I live in Southern Ireland.

    I am interested in visiting particular, great gardens whether public or private. Cathedrals or great churches, also monasteries, are places that I organise my travels around, as I enjoy the architecture, history and ambience of such places. I read a lot and enjoy visiting places associated with writers. I prefer to remain in Europe for my travels at this point though I have traveled in Asia/India when younger.

    I particularly like the French Pyrenees and have also done some trekking there over the years.

    For the most part I travel solo, though sometimes share a trip with my 'travel buddy'.

    Thank you for this forum!