Thanks to everyone who has replied, maybe I should have given a bit more detail in my original post.....
We are looking to buy early next year (January) with the intention of frequent weekend and a couple of week / fortnight long trips in the UK to iron out any wrinkles and get familiar with the 'van then in autumn 2014 travel round Europe for about a year.
Intention is to have a relaxing holiday, improve our language skills, meet people & learn more about the culture of the various areas we visit.
Based on the way we live when we camp We think we'll probably settle in an area (based in a small town (15-20k population)) for 7-14 days and travel around by push bike or public transport, with the occasional stay in or near a city or remote (isolated) location for 1-3 days.
So far....
We
NEED 1 double bed but because we DEFINITELY don't want to make the bed every night we've being looking at 4 & 6 berths
a
full size shower,
a reasonable sized lounge,
decent storage is obviously a pre-requisite so a rear bed with a garage underneath sound ideal but....we don't want to be looking at the bed all day if the weather is wet and we can't get out.
We've seen a Autosleeper Wilton which has nearly everything we want (we think we're agile enough to use the over cab bed and the romantic in me particularly liked the U lounge with 3 big windows - I immediately had a vision of being parked in NW Scotland surrounded by panoramic views of hills and lochs) and is in the right (£30k ish) price range but it only has 2 travelling seats. I'm concerned that this will affect re-sale value and limit the market if we want to sell it. We have 2 grandchildren so it would also prevent us taking them away in the 'van.
Finally we live in Aberdeen (Scotland) so purchase / viewing options are a bit limited.
Europe = France, Spain, Portugal, Andorra (for cheap diesel
) Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium & The Netherlands possibly some of the mid European countries too.