Category: journals

25th June 2024

The Kombi Chronicles – Live From Panamerica!

English couple Lee and Willow (and cats Aimee and Lexi) are currently on the Panamerican highway in their 1976 VW Kombi, and have been creating such great video and photography that I decided to...

journals / trips

29th August 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 7 – Bosnia to Brighton

*Click here for parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. Read on or click straight down to this episodes video here. So the garage came good on their promises… 3 days later than...

journals / trips

22nd August 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 6 – Montenegro to Bosnia

*Click here for parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. Read on or click straight down to this episodes video here. We were off early to try and spend at least some of the...

journals / trips

12th August 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 5 – Albania & the coast to Montenegro

*Click here for parts 1, 2, 3 & 4. Read on or click straight down to this episodes video here. Archie and I returned to Preveza 2 days later. We drove straight back to...

journals / trips

9th August 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 4 – Vassilki, Lefkada

*Click here for parts 1, 2 & 3. Read on or click straight down to this episodes video here. It was time to head south. This time to collect an old friend from Aktion...

journals / trips

28th July 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 3 – Beaches of Northern Greece

*For the first & second instalments click here. Read on or click straight down to the video here. It was a good nights sleep lulled off by the sound of the ship’s engines and...

journals / trips

26th July 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 2 – Camp on board Anek Ferries

*Read the first instalment or click straight to the video here. It was Monday and we drove on into heavy traffic around Milan and along the motorways of the low lands of the north...

journals / trips

18th July 2019

Greece & the Adriatic coast 2019 part 1 – Brighton to Lake Como

*Read the first instalment or click straight to the video here. I set off optimistically early on a Friday afternoon in late June. 3 hours is usually a silly amount of extra time to...

journals / reviews / trips

11th July 2018

Brittany 2018 Camper Van Trip

At the last minute thanks to impending snow in April we decided to drive south instead of north to the Lake District & the Isle of Skye as planned. Being based in Brighton for...

journals / magazines

25th November 2016

The great folks over at overlandjournal.com publish a lovely monthly magazine and they’re giving away a free one this month. You can download yours here. There’s some wonderful imagery and long well thought through...

journals / movies / trips / vanlife

22nd September 2016

Awesome New Campervan & Overlander Video

I couldn’t embed it and it’s only on the Italian TV website RAI at the moment so it may not be viewable for ever but there’s the 3rd episode of a wonderful series of...

events / journals / movies / trips

14th June 2016

VW Campers Do Scotland’s NC500 – VW Route 67

[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogERS5DFxiI[/fve] When the Scottish Tourist Board threw down the gauntlet by rebranding their north-coast coast road as the alternative to Northern America’s Route 66 – the NC500 – it captured the imagination of many....

journals

1st September 2010

France Camping Cariste Summer Tour 2010

View France 2010 in a larger map 19/07 Monday Drove 295 miles from Hove today. Crossed the channel on the Eurotunnel. Arrived early and were waved straight on. Their numberplate recognition system rocks. Stopped...

journals

6th November 1994

1994 European Road Trip in JJ the Hanomag Henschel Camper

Having finished converting my beloved Hanomag Henschel from it’s motor-cross van status to a live in vehicle complete with fridge, cooker, shower, double bed and twin swivelling aircraft seats in the front my girlfriend...