I must be the saddest of all the members here, as I have already posted about taking our breadmaker and nespresso coffee machine touring, but having had several long stints in Europe in the T5 (longest almost 5 months) we did really miss some 'appliances'. Now we'll have all the extra room in our Triton I got to thinking if there was anything else (although I had never even considered a freezer Randa!!).

Washing clothes we have found a real pain. The machines on sites can be up to €6 a wash and they are never free when you want to use them. I usually wash all our clothes by hand, but it's a bit of a chore and a hand wringing and cloudy skies combo means you often have to move on with a pile of wet or damp washing. Also, although I do my best, sometimes things don't always come up 'clean' (you girls will know what I mean lol). Anyhoo, I have been looking at a few mini washing machines and am quite tempted. Anyone tried one? Admittedly, with a T5 to tow with, we will have more storage room than most but these things aren't huge. Some are like a mini twin tub http://www.campingworld.co.uk/Models.aspx?ModelID=1171 but the things that cause the biggest probs for us like sheets and towels wouldn't fit in those. Others are like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Caravan...e/dp/B004L55CGW but have no spin facility. I hope those links come out right on here?

Maybe I should just buy a bigger bucket

Edited to add: I just looked at a you tube video of a homemade portable washing machine using two large buckets and a sink plunger after drilling some strategically placed drill holes!

I'd rather have a dishwasher

Seriously though I've mainly lived in Rohan clothing of various sorts for the last eight years. They're made to be hand washed and not ironed and pack down small. They are expensive but last and last. I've got a series of seven of their polo shirts which I wear virtually all the time, if I wanted they can be washed, hung overnight and they're dry with no creasing the next morning. Those seven shirts are at least eight years old and are just starting to fade a bit, but the shape and finish is still fine. As a comparison M&S polo shirts at half the price last a year or so. Those Rohan shirts have cost me a fiver a year each, so far. The rest of their wide range is just as good.

I hear ya Andy but I do the laundry and he does the dishes otherwise there WOULD be a dishwasher built in the Triton

We wear 'technical' clothing most of the time, well in the summer we do as we are avid hikers/bikers, so this stuff is fine to get dry, as it's designed to dry quickly. The problem is sheets, towels, outerwear when chilly and SOCKS! he likes his 'just so' socks and they take forever to dry.

To be honest, its really just the spin dryer that I could use! Also, these are the limits of a T5. With the Triton on the back we can leave stuff hung up in the bathroom whilst on the road. We're gonna be really spoilt from this weekend!!

if its just smalls you need to wring out what about a salad spinner?

think this is the other type

Using the washroom as a drying cabinet works well, with all the other heating vents shut and the door canvas rolled down you can get a really good temperature going in there. Even with the fan turned down to reduce noise overnight it works well.