Some friends of ours, Wal and Daph Pearce, were spending the week at the Caravan Club site situated on the Blenheim Palace Estate. Knowing that they were very interested in seeing what we had chosen and needing a short familiarisation trip, we joined them and had a delightful couple of days seeing an area of England that I had driven by many times but never visited. The weather continued to be fine, so we didn’t test the weatherproofness of the van. Blenheim Palace and the surrounding park are most impressive and well the visit. We also walked to Winston Churchill’s grave at Bladon church. The Morello worked well and after a few hours reading instruction manuals, I was able to operate most of the facilities. We christened it with a bottle of champagne kindly donated by ... read more

We have been tent campers all our lives, but during a trip to New Zealand in 2006 we hired a motorhome to tour the Southern Alps. We soon realised that for us this would be the ideal form of transport and accommodation for the extensive European travelling we intend to do during our retirement. When we got home to the U.K., we visited an exhibition to find out what was on offer and after a fair amount of soul searching we settled on a Murvi Morello based on the latest model Fiat Ducato. Why did we choose a Morello? It soon became apparent that from the myriad of choices we had, there were two main considerations. Firstly size and secondly practicability. The Morello is a panel van conversion and we preferred this to coach built type ... read more