Progress Report

Hello everyone, Im back ! March was a bad month for me for a few reasons.Firstly I had no spare cash to spend on materials as work was quiet in Jan and Feb.I have to cut all the boards and wood outside and the weather has been crap!
Things have changed for the better now though! Work has picked up and the weather seems to be as well! So after finally deciding the choice of wall covering I placed an order with Magnums.4 sheets of 3mm light oak boards ,knock in edging and radius corner strip.Also bought a router bit to cut out the slot for the knock in edging.
I can't praise the service of Magnums enough,being as they are in Grimsby and I'm in the Deep South of England.I ordered the bits and they arrived next day,fully intact and the boards were very well packaged so all the corners of the boards were intact!
I have enough materials for a big push now, so should be posting more progress soon.
Happy building

Stephen.

Wildcamping.

Hello!
We found a new spot on the way back from Brighton last night.Its in West Sussex and right next to the beach.Another van joined us later on in the evening.It was quite cold and only 4.5* inside the van this morning.Brrr need to get the heater working! A loverly spot though and we will probably stay again.

FREE Motorhoming UK

Hello! If like us you like Wildcamping and feel that you would be a captive audience if you stayed on sites all the time,then this is a forum that's well worth a look.Its a new site which is growing every week and offers lots of information on all types of Wilding ,Stealth camping and Boondocking.
At the moment a map of free stop overs and Wildcamping sites is being compiled. This site is Free to join and use its infomation.There is a link to Free Motorhoming UK in my links section.

1'st Wildcamp Of The Year.

Hello! We finally managed to get our first camp of the year in.We had to make a trip to North Devon and on the way back we stopped off at a nice spot in West Dorset,by the sea.
This picture was taken with my new phone which has a flash!

Looking at the stats for this blog I can see that the audience is very varied and I receive a lot of page views from Denmark,so I'd like to say to my Danish viewers. Hej til alle de danske campingvogn!

Happy travelling !

Stephen.

Jobs On Another Van

I havn't done anything on the van lately because Ive been fitting some goodies to my Brothers van.he full times in his van so wants to be as self sufficient as possible as he's off grid.

He's gone for a twin 6kg refillable system with an auto changeover valve.The whole kit was bought from FES Autogas.The system was quite easy to fit and needed a 70mm hole cut in the side of the van for the filling point ( the black circle in the bottom left of the first picture ). Both bottles took £18 to fill which is roughly what you pay for an exchange calor of the same size,so he's saving money already.The heating is blown air Truma and with the fridge and hot water he should need to refill once a week.

Next job was to fit two 100 watt solar panels on the roof. There was enough room for them side by side in the middle.Panels glued on and hole drilled for cables,it was all finished in a couple of hours.They started working straight away,even though its been quite cloudy today.He just needs to add another battery and his system is complete .

Gas Tank Filling Point.

As requested here is a pic of the van showing the gas tank filler point.They didn't come in white,so its the black circle behind the drivers door.

Stephen.

New Year!

Hello! What a great start to the year it's been,dry and sunny.We loaded up the van with food and headed for Bournemouth pier.The undercliff is a good place to park up as you are right next to the beach and a short walk from town.

Happy New Year to all you campers and Travellers.