Jenny Jones is searching for the perfect motor caravan

I took advantage of the gap between Christmas and the New Year to go back through my brochures from the NEC. I’m still on the island bed trail.

All the beds seem to be roughly the same size with just enough room to walk round the ends of them, but as for the rest of the layouts the choice is varied. Showers on the right of the bed, showers on the left, basins and cupboards.

The Pilote was almost perfect but had a wobbly plastic loo door that had to be left open to get round the bed! Adria had a great layout with extra wash basin, whilst the Esterel had well designed seating. The Chausson had a transverse bed one could walk around - an innovative design that I wish I’d paid more attention to and Auto Trail had a useable bed with solid wood quality. But, on balance, the Rapido 7090 came out favourite in addressing our needs. It has an L- shaped kitchen, spare seat on right as one entered (over which Michael could put up more hooks for bag and coats) and a full- length fly screen door – as well as a useable bed. And it solved this year’s hobby horse - when I enter a motor home, having come in from the rain, where do I hang my coat without affecting all those smart interiors? An anorak question maybe, but I have noticed that it does, on occasion, rain in England!