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Category: Travel
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Building a minimal VW T6 campervan (twice)
A while ago, I wrote about minimal campervan conversions – i.e. what is the least you can do to call your van a campervan? In 2023,…
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How to live in a van and travel – new book from Vandogtraveller
I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy of Mike Hudson’s (AKA Vandogtraveller) new book How to live in a van and travel”. I’ve…
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Cool runnings – France 2014
There’s a saying that people use after a successful trip in an old vehicle, something like: “I just did a 1000 mile trip and it didn’t…
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Surviving a rainy campervan trip
I’m sat writing this in deepest Norfolk, using the passenger swivel seat as my office chair, while on the other side of the curtain (seperating the…
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Overland dreaming
As you may have guessed from the lack of recent updates, we haven’t been able to use Rocky much over the winter, and he is currently…
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European holiday road trip 2013
At the end of July, we headed off in an unprecedented UK heatwave to Portsmouth to catch a ferry to Santander in the north of Spain.…
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Turn up, Pop up and Cider I up
Last weekend we decided we should absolutely not go away camping, as we have loads of life admin to sort out at home. But then some…
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Bristol Volksfest 2013
A couple of weekends ago we headed over to Bristol Volksfest as it was on our doorstep and the weather was good, so it seemed rude…
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Another sunny North Devon weekend (well, mostly..)
We lucked out again with a sunny bank holiday weekend in North Devon, chilling out with friends in a field and on the beach for a…
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A windswept Vanwest 2013
Last weekend we went to our second Vanwest event at Brean sands. Unfortunately we didn’t get the previous weekends amazing weather and it was ridiculously windy,…
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Idyllic bank holiday weekend
This is exactly what I had in mind when we decided to buy a camper van. A rare coincidence of fantastic weather and bank holiday weekend…
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Gone with the Wynns
Nikki and Jason Wynn sold it all, packed up their 2 cats, bought an RV, and hit the road! Another inspirational travel blog by a young…