Category: travel

Viva la highlands!

On By MashleyIn Scotland, T4 Camper, The Lake District, travel, VW CampervanLeave a comment

 

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We’ve returned from our trip to the Lake District and Scotland, the eagle eyed amongst will have noticed there has been little activity on the blog front.

Unfortunately the internet or mobile internet was a bit of a mystery item in all the locations we visited plus we were having so much fun I didn’t really fancy sitting down in front of a computer as I do every working day!

The trip was great and i’ve spent a bit of time writing up our adventures, i’ve broken the report up into three sections based on where we were staying, click on each link for a report.

Ullswater

Glentrool

Loch Lomond

We’ve also had a chance to road test two of the items we bought for the van, the Cobb bbq and a Duvalay mattress, click here for the Cobb and here for the Duvalay reviews.

The van ran like a dream (aside from a leakjy sunroof) and our round trip total was 1090 miles on 2 tanks of diesel.

I hope you enjoy the reports and any feedback would be great.

Nice one!

Scotland here we come !

On By MashleyIn Scotland, T4 Camper, travel, VW Campervan2 Comments

We have booked up our first proper road trip in the van, 7 nights camping around the lake district and Scotland.

We’ll be going to:

Ullswater

Galloway Forest

Loch lomond

Each of these locations offers some awesome walks, mountain bike rides, stunning views and hopefully some astro photography as at least one place we are staying at has been designated a dark sky park, can’t do much about clouds though.

We are really excited (me especially) and I will be spending my 40th tearing about on my bike if it’s not chucking it down, amazing!

As always I’ll write up a report of each place we visit and we’ll also have a chance to test out our Cobb BBQ and Duvalay, check out the goodies section for a write up on each.

Good news for the stray cats of Ibiza!

On By MashleyIn Cats, Ibiza, travelLeave a comment

Good news for cats, the mayor has seen sense !

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For the last few days, all of the cat-lovers (indeed, all of the compassionate people) of Ibiza have been on tenterhooks.

We got word that the Mayor of San Juan, in the north of Ibiza, had given permission for a cat-cull (a “trap and kill” initiative) to take place in the areas of San Juan, San Miguel, San Lorenzo and San Vicente, due to commence in the next few days.

My good friend and editor, Cat Milton, broke the news to me during a business lunch in San Juan as we both fussed over the sweet-looking fella pictured above. He posed perfectly for Cat to photograph him as the awful realisation dawned that, should this cull go ahead, he would be one of many to lose his life. He may not have a home, but he is well-loved by the locals, who feed him and look out for him. He…

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Updates February 2015

On By MashleyIn T4 Camper, travel, VW CampervanLeave a comment

Hello faithful followers !

Whilst not much has been happening on the blog lots of things have been going on in the background and i’ve now had a chance to update and add what we’ve been up to.

There’s been some fairly extensive work been done on the van, if you are interested check out the sticky clutch and bike rack posts.

On the travel front we haven’t really been too far but we have had a day out at Bedgebury Forest on our new bikes, full report of the days escapdes can be found here.

I’ve just booked three weeks holiday so we’ll be starting to plan our trip to Ibiza very soon, proper excited about that.

Also this Friday 20th February i’m playing b2b with K-Complex at I Love Hard Beats 3rd birthday bash in London with Kevin Energy heading back to the wheels of steel after some time away from the scene, you can find all the info about the even by heading to facebook via this link, it’s gonna be an awesome night out !

Thats all for now !

Updates

On By MashleyIn Faults, national trust, T4 Camper, travel, VW CampervanLeave a comment

Over the last couple of weeks i’ve been adding some content to the site, mainly things that we have done to fix up Bumblebee and a write up of some of our travels.

In the not too distant future I will be migrating the site to a hosted solution so I can add, amongst other things gallery functionality to our posts.

I hope you enjoy reading as I enjoy writing about our exploits and we’re looking forward to great year ahead of camping, adventures, photography and blogging !