Unusual theft in Vilnius: mobile home stolen, €24,000 damage

The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (LVAT) upheld an order by the Environmental Protection Department to remove a mobile trailer from a plot in the Šaipiai landscape reserve. The court ruled that the law prohibits keeping and using trailers in nature reserves for any purpose, including as auxiliary facilities for beekeeping, except for explicitly listed exceptions. The claimant failed to prove the trailer was actually used as a beehive rather than for temporary accommodation.

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.