In the nine months of living in our Demountable Truck Camper I’ve made a few changes to the interior to make it feel more homely, and to give it a much more personal individual look about it. My old Ford Campervan was a homebuilt affair and...
I’ve Got an Omnia Oven! It’s an oven that sits on the hob and it looks like a cross between a lidded saucepan and a bundt cake tin. When I ‘moved in’ to the Thundertruck I had to concede that I wouldn’t be able to...
Adventure Overland Show 2015 There were so many amazing trucks: trucks that looked virtually indestructible and ready to take on the world! The sun was beating down temptingly, what a day to set off on an overland adventure across Europe, over to Morocco or head...
Homes with Wheels: my life in camper vans. It’s been six months now that we have been living in our truck camper. Our adventure in Shetland last month set me thinking about my previous campers: how those different vehicles have shaped my travels and my...
Our Demountable Camper Home So, here is our new nomadic home: it’s tiny but it is everything we want from life! If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll have seen my old home on wheels, well this is something very different indeed! This...
Late last week we said goodbye to our sweet home on wheels: Juan the Van. Time, and rust, had caught up with him and we took the decision to scrap him as there were to many niggling and costly problems. We have been living nomadically...
I’ve blogged Welsh Cakes before but I’m including them again as I made these to serve as a Welsh cream tea. Proving that all you need is a frying pan to make that quintessentially British treat, the cream tea. I had bought a tub of...
A gap in our house-sitting bookings gave us some summery freedom to roam Wales. I haven’t even crossed the Welsh border since the late 90’s, before that we used to holiday here throughout my childhood, it was good to be back. I’d arrange to meet...
I’d like to tell you a little story. It involves two British vagabonds in New Zealand, a tiny camper van and a sparrow called Jack {what else could we possibly call it? although it did turn out to be a girl!}. One of the greatest...
