Category: General Posts
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gearbox progress
A little progress on the gearbox…Due to issues with a batch of faulty parts, the gearbox wasn’t ready for my September holiday. As has been covered in a previous post we managed to get away thanks to a friend lending me a box. Ironically, I received an email stating my gearbox was ready the first…
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Thermal Screens
I have had a couple of people ask me about the thermal screens I use on my van (seen above on both the window and pop top). Both of these get used on almost every camp over oblivious to the time of year or temperature for reasons explained below. The pop top roof canvas was…
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New Forest – Hollands Wood & Round Hill
We arrived at the previous camp over (Blackpool Sands) with no definite plan for the third and final week of our September break. The location in Dartmouth left a few options available of which one of the more considered was Isle Of White for four or five days. However, for some time I had heard…
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Vans In the Sands 2017
Dartmouth was the destination for the ninth camp over of our three week break. It was a brilliant location for a camp over which happened to be at the very edge of the privately owned blue flag beach of Blackpool Sands. We had done this event the previous two years, and we really enjoyed the…
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Charlestown – Broadmeadow house
11th September started by visiting Truro. We had skirted around the town the previous year, but felt as the weather was a little unsettled, it may be the ideal time to do a little shopping and have a meal before we headed to our final destination in Charlestown near St Austell. We had seen Broadmeadow…