Finally, I am the proud owner of a 2008 Airstream 532 International!
It's been a long, exhausting, and exhilerating week.
It was an eight hour drive from home to Airstream Europe HQ with an overnight stop in a hotel that was so awful it was the best advert for RVs ever!
I got to Airstream but my trailer was still undergoing final checks:
So I was taken to lunch, hung out a bit, and by the end of the day we arrived at this happy moment:
I'm the bald guy on the left. If anyone thinks I look familiar, that's because I'm the RV magazine journalist who wrote the article that appears earlier on this thread. Yup, the man who tests caravans for a living has bought an Airstream...
... But I digress. My tow vehicle is a Renault Trafic long wheel base low-roof van, 2.5 common rail turbo diesel with an output of 140bhp. It's great for me as I can throw my kitesurfing gear and Triumph motorbike in the back. This is my outfit together for the first time:
First night was spent on a nearby Caravan Club Site. Look at the size of the pitch, now you see why we have smaller models than you guys!
A close up of the badge:
Next morning I went back to Airstream HQ where I met up with a family who have a 684 that they tow with a Nissan Navara:
And finally, just to reassure us all that we are the sane ones and it is everyone else who is mad, this is a picture of my room in a FOUR STAR hotel the night before I picked up my 'Stream:
...and this is a picture of my bedroom the next evening:
...mouldy milk cartons in the hotel:
... and breakfast in the Airstream:
More pix, especially internal I guess, as I get the time to do them. Hope you like the above!
