We had a nice lay in this morning, and a quick look out of the window showed that it was going to be another beautiful day –  the sun was shining and the sky was a lovely blue with hardly any clouds. Last night we stepped outside the van to look at the night sky … 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

A lot has happened since the last update.  We spent a week away touring Norfolk in a rented motorhome (Sunlight T68) – more on that here – and the day after we got back we drove up to Nottingham with the intention of buying a brand new Sunlight T69, but came away with a (slightly) … Read more

Things have been moving on slowly since my last update. We had been planning to import our own motorhome from Germany, but since the Brexit vote sterling has fallen significantly against the Euro, making an imported vehicle a lot more expensive.  In addition, the 2016 models I’d been tracking have mostly now sold and the … Read more

I’ve spent the past few weeks at work managing a project which went live successfully over the past weekend.  It’s been a long hard slog, working with a difficult client and their service provider, and this has meant lots of stress and working long hours.  I haven’t really been able to do any planning for … Read more

Current planning is that I’m going to hand in my notice at the end of October, work three months’ notice, and set off on our travels in February.  This assumes that I won’t get made redundant before then.  I work as a project manager in the financial services industry, and the Brexit vote a couple … Read more

One of the most important decisions when planning to go fulltiming, if not the most important decision, is the layout of the motorhome.  Since we made our minds up more than a year ago to go off travelling, we’ve been looking at all the different makes and models of motorhome and their layouts.  We’ve been … Read more