2017 Plans: Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Sweden! 2017 is a bit of new experience for me, for the first time in a long time, the year has already been loosely mapped out! I can’t remember the last start to a new year where I’ve been able...
When I fell in love with Lapland over the summer, little did I know that I would be moving there the coming winter! A whole winter under the Northern Lights; a whole winter of frozen beauty and polar night. I’m ridiculously excited: it’s like...
The North is calling again! On 27th April we are embarking on an adventure I’ve dreamed of for a few years. We are heading to Denmark and Norway for a three-month trip where we hope to drive up to the Arctic Circle then down into...
Unexpected things I love about living in a van. I’ve been living in a van for 5 years now, and there are some unexpected things that I’ve come to love about this way of life. The smell of the gas hob first thing in the...
Snowlife Vanlife It snowed last night. This overwhelmed me with childish glee, those first flakes of winter are so magical aren’t they? The snow falls and you remember the fun, the beauty, the romance of a white winter. But the grown-up you crushes the glee...
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...
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...
