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Norway nostalgia
We have been avid readers of MMM for a number of years, but have never responded to any editorial in the magazine. This is our first time.
It was very interesting to read Vicki and Nick’s article about Norway (Sept, p62 and Oct, p64). We are great lovers of that country and have made a number of visits, both in winter and summer. Our most recent road trip was via Harwich, into Holland, then Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and then finally into Norway. We worked our way down the country to Kristiansand and then took the ferry back to Holland. Eight weeks in all.
It was a spectacular trip, on which we not only met some wonderful people but also saw awesome scenery, including the midnight sun at Bleik on the Vesterålen Islands.
Anyway, the point of this narrative is that we did this by paying for everything with our Halifax Clarity credit card (no exchange rate charge), mostly on our phones.
This might be a good tip for anyone doing multi-country trips.
On another point, MMM recently reviewed portable bbqs without mentioning the LotusGrill. I have had a number of different ones over many years and consider this to be the best we have ever cooked on.
We have had our current one at least five years and use it all the time, both at home and on road trips.
Please give it a mention if you review such things again.
Mike Ayres
Another way to buy
In MMM’s Buying Advice feature (August, p136), one aspect that has been overlooked is to buy through a broker. This is how we purchased our latest motorhome, an Elddis Autoquest, which we bought through Motorhome Depot.
The process works that the seller agrees to have the brokerage handle the selling, and the buyer turns up at a designated place to inspect the motorhome or campervan, decide on the deal and hand over the agreed amount.
Of course, this is a different way of doing a private deal as you generally get to meet the seller who gives the final nod to the deal.
The broker is often backed by a financier so that you get the motorhome on completion and drive it home if you have handed over enough, either by bank transfer (preferred) or cash in hand and, of course, you have arranged insurance cover to drive it once you have bought your new model.
We did that precisely only recently on buying an Elddis and part-exchanged our older ’van, something that most p
