Welcome Steve and

It has taken me 2 years to convince my other half to consider an Eriba and at last it happened by chance, not by me, but a couple of nice Eriba Triton 420GT owners that were pitched up next to us recently at the Caravan Club Centenary site. A few minutes chatting, without me present, did the job no why but I'm delighted. It may be a strategy worth considering?

Thank you all for your very warm welcome.
An update of where I am regards the Eriba purchase...
We, that being the wife and I, duly attended the Caravan Salon Dusseldorf and what a sight it was! There were halls and halls full of motorhomes (mainly) and caravans. Plus a couple of halls dedicated to accessories and technical bits of interest only to the actual manufacturers.
I started off by taking my dear wife to inspect the Adria 4Four go-signature as I wanted her to see a small but contemporary 2 berth conventional caravan. We then went straight to the LMC stand to have a look round the LMC Musica 470E for her to review a larger, but less contemporary conventional van, but with fixed beds. Finally, with fingers crossed, I dragged her all the way to the furthest hall to try out the Eriba Troll 540. Alas! On arrival there was no 540 on display! So we had a look around a 530 which, incidentally, had the locker doors finished in high-gloss cream/ivory and absolutely gorgeous it looked too. Hmmm, she liked the Eriba concept but not that fixed bed in the 530. I knew that would be the case and I was so disappointed that there was no 540 to show her. Then the brain wave hit me when I remembered that there is another Eriba (a Triton 420 or 430 I think) which has the two large single beds which convert to a huge double. If we were to look at one of these it would at least show her the 'front end' of a 540. Alas! there wasn't a 420/430 either! There was the new 425 with a weird split front bed but we didn't like that one little bit...
but no matter...she LOVED the look of the Eriba's as they didn't look like, wait for it, caravans! In fact she just loved them generally and thought them to be a very cool looking bit of camping kit. Sort of thing a grown-up surfer dude might go camping in. So we are all systems go, the green light has been given!
So now I have an appointment at a Hymer dealer in Dusselorf on 6/10/15 to place the order for a 2016 Troll 540. Why am I going to Dusseldorf? Well, I made my Troll 540 purchase enquiries of AL and they offered me their 2015 demonstrator 540GT for £20.800. Now I have been looking/researching Eriba prices across Europe for about the past 2 years, ever since I thought that a Troll 540 might hopefully fit the bill, and I had a hope that I might be able to get a 540 from Europe for less money than at AL plus load it with the extras we wanted. So this is the deal I have negotiated:
A 2016 model Troll 540
GT package
Delivery & documentation
Al-Ko Mammut (integrated chassis) mover
Leisure battery & charger
Multifunction bed with cabinet
Truma electric ultraheat add-on
Truma 10 litre gas/electric boiler
Truma outside water inlet (for aquaroll/mains water)
Shower curtain
Extending shower hose
Al-Ko noseweight jockey wheel
All for under £19,800. The same-day flights, (and BHX) parking, on 6/10 have just cost me £144, so that still leaves £800 for the diesel and Eurotunnel when I go out to collect in March. I think I will have enough money from that £800 to have the dealer change the sockets to UK ones and add me 3 more electric sockets in various locations.
Yippee ai ehh!!!
The only disappointment is that we have to wait until March :-(