/ 22 July 2020 Looking back at lockdown in a van – 2 adults + 2 dogs in a box 6m by 2m – at times strange, intense and worrying! But in many ways we count ourselves lucky.
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/ 17 May 2020 Here’s my 2nd live streaming gig, beamed live from our van, Stargazer!
Some original songs and a few covers to close the first virtual Camp Quirky festival…
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/ 15 May 2020 We’ve really put our van through its paces in terms of winter camping this year, and it’s been great! It’s a Benimar Mileo motorhome, model 201. Ours is from late 2015 and includes…
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/ 3 March 2020 We loved our first full season of winter camping… Christmas and New Year on the Costa Brava, northern Spain – winter sun, medieval villages, catching up with our pals Tom and Zoe, paddleboarding on boxing day, midnight grapes in Girona, the Dali museum in Figueres… After that, we trundled across the south of France, through
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/ 15 January 2020 Two of the most read posts on the blog are “How much does it cost to run a campervan?” and the update I did after a few months in the newer, bigger motorhome, “75 days into our van life and European adventure – progress and costs”. I promised another update – so here’s the fun
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/ 18 September 2019 Part of van life is to try to make it feel like a home from home, especially if you’re using it as a long term base. For me, this means eating as healthily as we did at home, and to trying to ensure a varied diet. So, I’ve been out foraging – trying to find
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/ 6 May 2019 I guess we did have a plan to start with. We fancied a change. Bev would finish work, we’d sell the house in Newcastle and move to Northumberland, get some chickens or alpacas and set up a music studio in the garage. But our house didn’t sell – buyers being cautious with Brexit maybe, or
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/ 5 May 2019 Fixed bed? Transverse? French Bed? Fuel efficiency? Length? Weight? Extra kit for wild camping? Fully winterised for year round adventure? All the things we pondered when we upgraded from a VW campervan to a motorhome.
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/ 24 April 2019 Mixed feelings as I dropped off ‘Voyager’, our trusty VW campervan, a few weekends ago, in part-ex for the new motorhome. On the train home, I got to pondering. We’d had the van a touch under 3 years, say 35 months, and the difference between what we paid and what we got in part-ex was
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/ 20 January 2019 So, I mentioned some big changes for 2019… Well the balls are definitely rolling now! I’m finishing work at the end of March, we’ve got the house up for sale and I put down the deposit on a motorhome yesterday! Our current plan is to tour Europe for a few months and see where things
