Loving Life on the Road
We left what turned out to be the last beach in Spain we’ll be visiting this trip and set co-ordinates for France. We knew we’d have to have another stop somewhere as it was quite a way away still so we had a lovely drive in the sunshine. En route we found a lovely Aire […]
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We left our little park up and headed north again, we wanted to get up to the Luna bar that Greg and Lou has told us so much about so plotted a stop off at Nazaré so we could see if the surf was up and hopefully, as it was Valentine’s Day, we could find […]
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After spending the night at the lighthouse we headed down to Sagres Fortress where we all had arranged an impromptu meet up for anyone who “followed” the 3 channels to come and join us for a night or two. Missy, Dom and co had stayed there the previous night as it was a little too […]
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We stayed for 4 nights and 5 days in the beautiful Quarteira whiling away our days while sat by the vans, dipping in the sea and walking into the town for water and supplies. The sea here was something else, calm looking on the surface but when those waves hit the shore it was like […]
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Tarifa was lovely, well what we could see of it through the torrential downpours and thundering. It seemed like Storm Gloria had well and truly found us..! We had offered to help Eamon and Bec with their solar as well as Nick and Sarah with their electrics and as it turns out, Missy and Dom […]
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It was with heavy hearts that we left the beach (and the bar) and continued our journey along the coast. We usually have something that spurs us on some and this time it was clean undercrackers!!! haha.. So we’d found a Speed Queen Launderette a couple of miles away in Motril so off we went. […]
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We spent a lovely few days at that beach park up then decided after topping up and emptying out at the local fuel station, that we were going to do something a little different 😁 We headed up into the mountains, feeling the air cool as we drove through some amazing scenery – even being […]
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So here we are, sat on the south coast of Spain, watching the waves hit the sea and thinking “we really did it..!” We’ve had our full first month in the ‘van now and was it what we expected..? Let’s see shall we.. With all the faffing about the house we decided to see if […]
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The following day Greg and I had decided we were going to have a little jog to try out all his new gear, we didn’t do too badly really, 3.75K in 28 mins which was a nice little starter circuit. We had our next stop plotted in, full water tanks, empty toilet cassettes so off […]
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Before we moved into our van I wanted to equip us with the best WiFi setup and to give the WiFi the best internet speed. We use an EE sim card as this allows us to get the best coverage in the UK and we used to use a huawei e5577 with a “puk” antenna […]
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So I need to get used to this blogging business it seems – especially with starting on day two and ignoring the Channel Tunnel and our night in Dijon! So.. please excuse any repetitiveness.. The full story from last time will commence. We woke up nice and early on the Saturday to make sure we […]
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We left Wales and headed up Yorkshire way, not full on Yorkshire like but a little on the outskirts – Holmfirth/Huddersfield way 🙂 Up to The Huntsman Inn (What three words location anode.stores.bookshop) We were going to find somewhere different to stay as we’d booked in for the Saturday night for a meal with Dave, […]
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With a humongous sigh of relief we left our hometown knowing that the house finally belonged to someone else and we headed down to Wales. We had this trip pencilled in so we could get to see Johns mum and Dad and possibly catch a couple of Christmas markets before Christmas came along like a […]
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We’ve left the house and are on our way, off to visit some friends and family to help slide into this winter van life. The van is packed up with all of our stuff and all the leftover food from the kitchen (so now have all the herbs, spices, flour and tinned food but not […]
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So we did it – we have left the house and are now living in the van.. which is weird and cool and a bit scary and a LOT exciting.. We have started by popping down the road and are in a pub stop in Crewe for our first night away from the house (we […]
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Thanks for your feedback on the new VanTek Tuesday feature, something I copied from The Urban Motorhome as Darran has Motorhome Mondays. For the Water tank heaters, click this link https://www.johnandmandy.uk/water-tank-heaters-more-campervan-changes-ep-7/ For more info about services for full time vanlife click this link https://www.johnandmandy.uk/services-costs-for-full-time-vanlife/ Folding solar panel info can be found here https://www.johnandmandy.uk/lithium-battery-solar-upgrades/ Buy the […]
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It’s all getting very real right now, not only have we got to be cleared out of our house we’ve lived in for 12 years but we also have to get our van packed and ready to live in full time. With just 12 days to do until we have to be out of the […]
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Upgrading the security of the van is one of the final steps before moving into it and travelling full time around Europe. The first upgrade was to install CCTV, 4 cameras and a screen that can display and record the cameras, it even records audio from each camera too. The Haloview system is the best […]
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I wanted to make changes to the control panel in our campervan, where the light switches are and so on over the sliding door. There’s plenty of space there and our other switches and controls are dotted around the van, making them really not easy to see all the info at a glance. So in […]
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