As life under lockdown becomes the new norm, thoughts of driving across borders, exploring foreign cities and soaking up the freedom of life on the road can feel like an all too distant memory. It may be some time before the adventures can continue in real life but we can still dream and escape to exciting new places through the […]
Van Life
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How we transformed a Nissan e-NV200 Combi van into the perfect tiny home on wheels… Buying a campervan can be a life changing decision, giving you the possibility to take off and hit the road at the drop of a hat without having to do any packing or meticulous planning. You can make the most of your free time, exploring […]
Here are our tips for keeping warm and looking after your campervan during the winter months… As the nights draw in, leaves fall from trees and the first shimmers of frost dust the ground we are starting to prepare our van for winter. With this being our fourth year living in the van we’ve already experienced the discomfort and inconvenience […]
Our van life adventure started four years ago when we gave up our house and moved into our van full-time, taking on a nomadic way of life. When we first moved in to our van we had no idea where it would lead, we just knew we wanted something different from the routine nine to five; spending most of our […]
We left Gorlitz in Germany and headed south for the Czech Replublic… One of the things we love about van life is how you can temporarily move to a place based purely on your mood at the time…if we feel like finding some peace and quiet we can drive out to a woodland or park up on the edge of […]
For a few days we lived on the edge of Berlin’s former military airfield and explored the amazing culture and history of the city… We first visited Berlin with Jess & Freddy for New Years Eve in 2016 (read more in our previous post here). We are all quite smitten with the city, admiring its progressive political policies on housing […]
We were in need of an adventure and a break from our everyday routines so we set off for Europe in our self-converted camper. We finished converting a full-time live in motorhome for Dee’s sister Jess and her partner Freddy last year and in June they packed up and set off on the adventure of a lifetime, travelling all across […]
We’ve now been living full-time in our self-built motorhome for over two years! On 14th October 2015, we packed up our tools after spending an evening working on our van’s kitchen and started driving away from our workshop along the A36 towards Salisbury, as we had been doing pretty much every day, only on this day we didn’t have a […]
After a couple of months of living without a draining rack and unable to find want we wanted we decided to spend a bit of time building the draining rack of our dreams! To save on precious worktop space we made a wall mounted, folding draining rack with removable trays to catch drips of water. As with most things in […]