Court: Placing mobile homes in protected areas has strict limits

In Vilnius, a Mobili House mobile home was stolen from a parking lot on Trenapolė (Trinapolis) Street on Sunday between 3:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Damage estimated at €24,000; police have launched an investigation.

On May 4 at 4:25 PM, a homemade trailer caught fire in Smėlynė village, Troškūnai eldership. The fire destroyed two tires and about 2 square meters of the trailer's wooden planks.

Bürstner has halted caravan production as demand fell 13%. Poland is proposing to scrap road tolls for campervans, while Liguria counts the cost of 8,000 motorhomes descending on the region. Tom Hanks' son has swapped Hollywood for a trailer in pursuit of a music career, and a French couple has driven 100,000 km from the North Cape to Senegal — and that's not even the whole story. All this in this issue.

On April 28, a man tried to register a Hymer Tramp camper at a Regitra office in Jurbarkai village. Inspectors found forged identification markings, suggesting the vehicle may have been illegally acquired. A pre-trial investigation has been launched under Article 189 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code (legalization of illegally acquired property).

Greece has cancelled its own camper van ban — a year and a half on, as if it got cold feet. In Tenerife, 500 motorhomes blocked a motorway demanding the same — pitches and dump stations. In Miami, 200 families are being evicted from a motorhome park by September, while Córdoba is only just applying for permission for a new overnight area. Plus 21 kg of cocaine in a motorhome in Lanzarote, a fake eight-wheeled Mercedes-AMG G63 and a Starbucks coffee trailer in Seoul — in this issue.

Almería is putting up physical barriers to keep motorhomers off its former fairground — while Turkey simply evicts them from the beach. Lightship is quadrupling its electric-caravan factory in Colorado, even as 50% of Italian motorhome renters turn out to be under 35. Plus 800 kg of hashish in a motorhome at the Spanish border, Anker's 800 W charger running off the alternator, and Carstay as the mobile HQ of a Tokyo festival — all in this issue.