Category: General Posts
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Stand Up Paddle Boarding
I took up this pastime as a distraction from my campervan when things weren’t going so well after the campervan brokedown on the way to what should have been a month long trip to Europe . It proved a great therapy, and one of my long standing best friends took up the sport at the…
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Big Mirror refurb
The Atlantic was one of the few vans that came with big mirrors as standard. These were always colour coded from factory in one of three available colours. White, calypso green or red. My van on the other hand came with mat black mirrors. This didn’t particularly bother me as I always knew I would…
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Start at the start…where it ended!
Leading on from the last BLOG entry the replacement gearbox was fitted and we focused our attention on contacting campsites and making sure everything was checked and packed. We would need to run the van with the storage box on the back to give us extra capacity for the outdoor equipment. This has become known as the…
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Joys, trials, tribulations..
I don’t think people realize just how emotional owning a campervan can be. You have to live it to really understand the ups and downs. I’ve become sentimentally attached to my van as times passed, and this last month has been a roller coaster ride with highs one minute, and lows the next. This has been…
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Seeing Red
So my van has gearbox issues! But no reason to stop chipping away at the things that have annoyed me until that can be fixed. Basically, the gaps in my wheels aren’t massive because of the style of alloy, but annoying all the same to see the rusty drum behind. So yesterday / today I jacked…