And don't forget you can use an Eriba for other things as well as touring.

Ours has been used as an extra bedroom on our drive over Christmas.

And probably the most innovative was during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012. We'd arranged for a street party on the grass open space outside our house. The weather forecast was dire so we emptied our double garage and put tables and chairs inside, moved the Troll onto the grass and erected the Caravanstore with Zip sides and front, put the NL full awning up on the front lawn as it was freestanding and several other lightweight awnings from neighbours.

Despite the cold and awful rain everyone had good time and the Eriba seated 6 plus 4 under the Caravanstore whilst the NL awning had about 12 in it.

You can't kid me I've still got the pdf of Pew Towers from when you bought it https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/1915161/doc_1_1.pdf

possibly but automotive leisure have a Pan 2 years older than ours for £8.5k!
who knows until you go to sell. No doubt should ours get written off, that we would struggle to buy another

That to me hits the nail on the head Lesley. The beauty of the Eriba is we are independent. We go where we want, we can cater for ourselves at a fraction of the cost of eating out. Get up late or early and have breakfast when we want, in our dressing gowns, not having to get washed and dressed to appear in a dining room for breakfast. We can go out for the day or sit around reading a book or people watching.
As Del boy once said "the world's our lobster".

There's no going back know. A new 530GT (with dinette at the back) is coming in about 8 weeks...