Hi Wayne
I got a C rail from a local caravan shop £10 or so, glued it in the roof gutter with tiger seal ( a good thread on here about attaching awnings) awning is a vango sapera air beam which is expensive but amazing - Up in 15 mins and has an internal bedroom - no poles, has a sewn in kador strip, I got 3 x 1 metre figure 8 strips and another length of kador strip and jobs a good un. Easy to drive away and reattached (mark the ground where the driver side front wheel is before you drive off).
Off to France this weekend for 2 weeks to give it some proper use

 

Enjoy your trip to France and stay safe
Ron.

 

Usually there is a pole that comes along with the awning. The pocket has a hole in the middle, so I just put a line through it ant tie it on the roof racks...

 

Hi Wayne, I'm looking into this too. There's a handy thread just posted yesterday here: http://www.vwt4forum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=311376
For economy option, a few people are happy with the Hi Gear Mojave Porch (once attachments sorted) and they seem to fly out of Go Outdoors quickly whenever in stock.

 

Thanks everyone for your advice - I have decided on a Vango Kela drive-away awning with the throw-over straps as, with a toddler, it looks like the most easiest non-time-consuming option (after trying to set up just a windbreak at the weekend I've realised that poles and toddlers do not go well together). First use will be at Dubs in The Forest at the end of the month so fingers crossed

Wayne