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Category: Travel
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Dreaming of road trips
So Rocky is currently having an engine transplant down in Devon (expect a blog post about that very soon), and meanwhile i’m fuelling my dreams of…
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Campervan Culture
One website that keeps popping up on my radar is Campervanculture.com. It’s mainly about T25/ T3/ Vanagon Syncros, but campervan owners (or aspiring campervan owners) of…
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February in the Forest
(First guest post by Jo!) I’ve never been camping in February before, but with the sun shining and an electric heater promising to blow warm air…
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Drive Nacho Drive!
I found this travel blog about a couple from Freemantle, US travelling the world in their Vanagon (T3/T25 to us europeans):- At the end of 2011…
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A Restless Transplant
This guy left his design job in New York in August 2011 and bought a VW Vanagon Syncro (basically a 4×4 T25). Since then, he has…
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The one that got away – my old VW T25 Panel Van
I found some pictures of my old VW T25 camper, “The strawberry van” – a 1983 1.9 water-cooled panel van. I bought it off some clown.…
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Keep calm and carry some tools
A few days before christmas we headed off on the first long trip in Rocky since buying him. The cross-country trip from our home town of…
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Worliday? I think I need a holiday
I read this article by Lucy Kellaway on the BBC news site – she invented the term “worliday” for a working holiday and is very enthusiastic…
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Six weeks on the road – lessons learned
I’ve just returned from a six week working holiday, touring france (and a bit of spain) with my wife and kid, in a beetle, living in…
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Work/loaf balance
Sometimes I get bullied and cajoled by my family and friends into doing social and exciting stuff, just as I need to do some work, or…
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One night in Spain
It’s seven o’clock in the evening and i’m being led on a wild goose chase round Santander in the north of Spain, by the very out-of-date…
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Three days of cloud and rain = back to mains
I had been doing really well keeping stuff charged by solar power alone in the good weather, but three days of cloud and torrential rain resulted…