There is nothing better than a glass of Scrumpy cider after a long day of surfing in Cornwall or Devon but there is nothing worse than trying to get dry and warm in an already damp tent. That’s why I no longer camp on my annual pilgrimage to the beach. This summer many hundreds of surfing amateurs and pros alike will be headed for British and European seas, and more of them than ever are going by caravan.

Caravans are by far the best choice for a surfing holiday; there is countless space for wet suits, towels and surfboards. I don’t have my own board but it’s much less expensive to engage one for the week as opposed to each day. It is not just less expensive but you have the opportunity to really get the experience of the board. Hiring a board for the week is pretty challenging without a caravan; even a short board would be hard to squeeze in a tent. That’s why I feel like a pro every year, despite sitting on my board in the green waves and searching for seals for most of the day.

The problem with caravans is the insurance. It is easy to forget to check if their insurance can give them the cover they require. If travelling to Europe then you have to make sure you have the right European caravan insurance or else you maybe left less mellow than the average surfer when something goes wrong! Don’t let some uninsured driver make you miss the surf this year, get caravan insurance!

Surfing all day means leaving the caravan unattended. Any true surfing lover will realize that the early surf is the better. When all said and done who would like to share the waves with the foam board tourists? That’s why you ought to ensure that your caravan insurance safeguards your contents. Particularly if you have any second boards left in it! A great specialist caravan insurance broker will be in a position to talk you through exactly what your policy includes.

Surfers are meant to be worry free so let someone else do the worrying! Don’t leave anything to chance this summer and get the right insurance for your caravan. Don’t forget that mileage, overseas travel and what you require to protect can all have a bearing on your cover so chat with an agent that can find the correct policy for you. Enjoy the surf!

It’s sometimes difficult to get caravan insurance to cover exactly what you want it to. If you want to ensure that you don’t get swindled by your insurers it’s best to use a broker that has good relationships with insurance brokers and who know their field inside out. Click on caravan insurance to go to Coversure’s website.

It was five years ago, on my yearly trip to Leeds Festival that I became a caravan lover. That year I didn’t have an early pass and was eager to find a place to camp before there was no space left when the strap on my main rucksack broke. I balanced it on my tent bag and trudged on through the, now fluid, mud. Subsequently this additional weight then broke the strap on my tent bag, leaving me stranded.

Fortunately some friends of mine were nearby in the caravan section and helped me carry my things to their caravan. What luxury! It was only a cheap caravan but when equated with my one-man tent in which I couldn’t lie down straight, even without my bag, it was brilliant. How jealous I was of their luxury caravan when I opened my bag to find half of my things broken and damaged by the fall in the mud.

The next year I was of course in one of those dry, warm caravans and happily watched the other festivalgoers struggle with their bags. Evidently my luck hadn’t improved and the caravan flooded. Again my new Top Shop inspired festival wardrobe was destroyed together with the majority of the caravan.

Thankfully I’d thought to make sure contents were included on my caravan insurance. We didn’t have to worry about the harm to the caravan and I would even say we enjoyed living in the damp for three days. When all said and done, it is all part of the festival experience.

Now we have annual caravan holidays abroad, which are ideal for a cheap holiday with friends. I wouldn’t stop my caravan holidays for anything and definitely wouldn’t risk an uninsured driver crashing into us and spoiling our tradition. Since the flood incident I always ensure we have the right insurance cover for whatever country we happen to journey to, it’s so critical to have the right cover for European travel.

If you have an RV then you have good taste, and really know how to have fun. Enjoy your motor caravan and go on holiday. But don’t forget that holidays are meant to be stress free; with our less than reliable weather this isn’t forever the situation. Get the right cover for your trip and have a good time!

You will need to make sure that when you go to your festival or off on your vacation that you have the correct caravan insurance to cover everything that could go wrong. Coversure are a trusted insurance broker with strong relationships with insurance providers. They will be able to secure you the best deal on your caravan insurance.

Driving up the M6 a few days ago I was taken aback by the amount of trucks and lorries on the motorway, not just the small ones but the big ones too. Here is a lorry carrying furniture, here’s another with a milk container on the back, another one with nothing on at all and naturally the supermarket one offering cheap insurance deals. I don’t think the insurance deals on the back of his truck were all that cheap but he did appear to be advertising their availability above everything else that his employer had to offer.

At least this sort of advertising is completely restricted to when we see the outside trucks and lorries at this time. I wonder what it will be like in future? Will we see cheap truck insurance advertised on the side of aeroplanes, will our commuter trains be liveried with the logos of insurance brokers offering cheap insurance?

What is this obsession with cheap insurance anyway? Everywhere you appear they are offering us cheap insurance aren’t they? On TV, on the tube, on our petrol pumps, even when we’re having a pee at the service station there is the advert staring us in the face. “Aim higher for cheap truck insurance!”

Is it me or does it seem that simply insurance is sold with such intensity? You don’t very often see adverts for chocolate biscuits or the latest sofa sale at DFS in motorway service station toilets do you? Is the little puppy with the toilet paper staring out at us from the rear of a (cheaply insured) truck? No, I’m pretty sure he’s not.

Perhaps it is the very fact that these advertisements for insurance are focused towards us when we feel at our most vulnerable that makes the people in insurance advertising consider that they will work. The poor guy in his little car, overshadowed by a huge great beast of a lorry and its insurance ads might be more receptive to a cheap deal.

Next time you are out and about on the motorway, have a look and discover how many cheap insurance deals are being offered to you. You will have adverts on the sides of trucks, in fields, in toilets, on petrol pumps, bins and magazines. There will be adverts for cheap insurance on the radio and on the TV screens in the service stations. There might even be a cheap truck insurance sales person sitting beside you now as you sip your well earned cuppa in the Watford Gap services. Cheap insurance is all around, let’s hope in the interest of our youngsters that the idea doesn’t catch on!

If you really are interested in some sort of insurance at the moment, then it would be well worth getting an experienced broker on your side like the guys at Coversure. Whether you’re looking for truck insurance or caravan insurance Coversure have great relationships with countless insurance providers and can secure you a great deal.

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Something about the nature of insurance seems to make people want to pay as little as possible for it. Cars on the other hand, people seem to be willing to pay through the nose for, but when it comes to insurance, everyone wants the cheapest. The latest way of doing this is by grouping everyone that lives in the same house under a policy called family fleet insurance.

So fleet insurance sounds ideal for families who are all careful drivers (yeah right). What about people living with a boy racer? It sounds possible that they could end up paying more with all family members on the same policy.

The traditional look of a fleet for insurance purpose is about 100 Vauxhall Cavaliers insured by a firm for their sales reps. This isn’t actually how most fleets are made up. Many vehicle fleets are made of mixed vehicles. Tractors, Cars, HGVs, Minibuses, Lorries and even Motorbikes can end up insured under a fleet insurance policy.

If you’re really, really bored on a long journey a cheap (very cheap!) way of amusing yourself is to look at each vehicle that you pass (or passes you) and trying to work out whether they are insured under a fleet insurance policy or not. The good news is that this is a game you can’t lose (unless you’re planning to stop each of them and actually ask whether they are insured with a cheap fleet insurance) but to help make sure you win you might like to consider these tips;

Sign written vehicles have a good chance of being insured under a cheap fleet insurance policy. Cheap looking cars or vans are probably insured on their own or not at all! Young men driving fast are a no-no, middle aged men driving fast are a racing certainty, in more ways than one! Lady drivers? Probably not! Policemen? Almost certainly! Butchers, Bakers, Candlestick makers with fleet insurance- maybe! It’s a good game isn’t it?

So should you insure your vehicle on with fleet insurance? Well, it sounds obvious but first find out it it’d be cheaper that way, and if it would, go for it! It’s probably best not to ask a Meerkat or an overly large opera singer, the chances are they won’t be able to help you with fleet insurance. It’s best to ask a real live person who specialises in insurance to advise you on the best policy to suit your unique requirements.

If you think that you could benefit from fleet insurance then you should give Coversure a call. They are specialist insurance brokers with long-standing relationships with some of the country’s top insurance providers so they can make sure you get the best deals on anything from fleet insurance to caravan insurance.

This Easter saw caravan holidays rise to the status of “most convenient” after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano saw most aeroplanes around the world either completely grounded or at least disrupted.

It was truly a great feeling, pulling my caravan home whilst air-traffic had ground to a halt and not even having to concern myself with whether or not my insurance covered volcanic eruptions covered happening in a distant country. It suddenly feels as if caravan lovers everywhere have been vindicated. Next time someone says something along the lines of “cars towing caravans are slow and only get in the way” you could remind them that there was a period around Easter 2010 in which a caravan could get from anywhere in Europe to almost anywhere else in Europe faster than the average plane.

Also, the “cramped and claustrophobic” conditions that so many people associate caravans with seemed like the most luxurious and spacious of interiors compared to a hotel lobby or a space on an airport floor.

Between those who love the freedom offered by caravan holidays, this is all, of course irrelevant. We like our thing, and you like yours. How tedious the world would be if we all liked the same thing. The reason for the gloat is that the uninitiated often see fit to poke fun at our choice, while we rarely do the opposite.

So, although I didn’t incur any of the costs and inconveniences that the aeroplane fan-club did this Easter, I did have some additional costs, and not the kind that you can insure against either.

I took a copy of Caravan Magazine with me because we are thinking of buying a new one (caravan that is, not magazine). We planned to read all about the cost and proportions of our next purchase, but ended up reading their insurance survey. It looks like, because I couldn’t be bothered to call a broker, I have overpaid on my own caravan insurance – by quite a lot. If you are looking for cheap caravan insurance, you ought to shop around, because the Caravan Magazine Insurance Survey had loads of comparisons, and I was surprised by the results.

If you are looking to take out caravan insurance, but want to make sure you get the best deal possible, you should arrange it through Coversure. They are an insurance broker with long-standing relationships with providers and can always secure a great deal on static caravan insurance or touring caravan insurance.