First of all, a warm welcome to all of our friends from Facebookland who are reading our blog for the first time! If you’d like to keep up with our adventures, then enter your email address in the ‘keep in touch’ section. We’ll also be updating Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as we go – links … Read more
The new gas system has at last been installed. Here are the before and after pics. The new (yellow) tanks hold loads more gas and can be filled with LPG from outside the van, just like you would fill your car up with petrol at the petrol station. Whilst the drive down to Portsmouth was … Read more
I finally finished work on 30th December so I’m now free to go off travelling 🙂 We’re now a week into 2017. All we need to do now is get a new gas system installed on the van (booked in for 18th January), and find a tenant for our house. The gas system we have currently … Read more
2016 was the year in which our dream of travelling around Europe in a motorhome turned into a reality. At the beginning of the year our plan was for me to quit my job and head off in June 2017, but my mid-2016 our thinking changed and we decided to bring that forward. We had been … Read more
Last night we played Upwords again. We were 1-1 on Friday evening and 1-1 again last night so we made it a ‘best of 5’ only for us to draw the 5th game on points. We’ll have to continue another time! This morning we woke up at about 8am. After showers and breakfast it was … Read more
Since we bought the van, we’ve only overnighted in it at Colchester, so we were long overdue a long weekend away. I’d booked today off work some time ago, and earlier in the week we booked up to come to stay on a site in Dunwich, on the Suffolk coast. We’ve gradually been taking stuff … Read more
It’s been a while since I last posted, but there isn’t really that much to report. We’ve now spent a couple of weekends in the van, getting used to how everything works. We’ve just stayed at the camp site which is attached to the storage place in Colchester, though we have been taking it out … Read more
We picked up our new motorhome from Lowdhams in Nottingham just over a week ago. The handover was booked for first thing on Friday morning so we took the train up there on the Thursday, kipping at the Holiday Inn in town, and then took the short train ride to Lowdhams early the next morning. … Read more
Well it’s all happening now, the countdown is on! Yesterday I handed in my notice at work, and will quit my job at the end of December. I’ve only told a few colleagues and they were all surprised/shocked! I’ll let the grapevine do its job for others to find out. I also told everyone in … Read more