End of an Era It’s with a bit of heavy heart that I’ve got to announce that, after a long trip to VW Kampers in West Sussex, we’ve now sold Absinthe. We’ve had her for ten years and the time…

A Reminder of What We’ve Missed I’ve not exactly fallen out of love with Absinthe, but my passion for her has possibly waned since the pandemic hit and we’ve not been able to use her very much. Today was a…

Look What’s Been Bubbling Under… The first Blog of 2021 and I’m not even involved! Our youngest daughter, Gabrielle gave birth to a beautiful baby girl earlier this month but, because of lockdown, we’ve only been able to meet her…

The First Campsite of 2020 It’s amazing that our first campsite sleepover of 2020 didn’t happen until 18th and 19th August, but, when it finally happened, it was a great trip. Equally surprising was that the site; Wilcock’s Farm Campsite…

Free at last… Finally, we managed our first nights away in Absinthe, albeit not to a campsite, but to our daughter’s house, in the village of Roy Bridge in the Highlands of Scotland. We set off on Tuesday morning at…

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve not been able to see all of our children, so we’re trying to make up for their absence by having some time with the most distant ones by using Absinthe. Fortunately, two…

Hugs in Rawtenstall Apart from a short trip by our neighbour to get an up to date MOT, Absinthe hasn’t left our drive since 13th March (pre-lockdown), so it was great to blow the cobwebs off her by driving to…

Ralf’s First Absinthe Adventure It seems like forever since we’ve been out in Absinthe, partly because the weather has been so bad, but also because Ralf arrived with us in January and we’ve been waiting for him to grow a…

Camp, Cook, Dine Occasionally, I come across products that I think are so good that I have to share them on the Blog so that other van owners can get access to them. So it’s proved with two items from…

Glawning Owners Group Meet at Ettie’s Field The Glawning Owners Facebook Group has almost 2,000 members now, so it seemed high time that we should have our first low key camp out. Earlier in the year, Alison and I had…

Dubs in t’Dales 2019 This was our second visit to DITD (we went in 2017 too) which is held on the Camp Hill Estate in North Yorkshire. As regular readers will know, I’m a regular critic of our Lancashire climate,…

A Long Weekend in Leyburn We’d arranged to meet some of the family and their children at The Forbidden Corner near Leyburn on Tuesday, so decided to make a long weekend of it at the lovely Cow Close Farm campsite.…

Edinburgh Festival 2019 It’s a couple of years since we last visited the Edinburgh Fringe, so on Friday we set off to the Ninja Pop Up Site, close to Edinburgh Airport. It’s on the Showground and the facilities are excellent.…

Llamas, Lions and Lederhosen Larmer Tree Festival We’ve not been to Larmer Tree Festival since 2014, so it was high time to head that way again. The venue is on the Wiltshire/Dorset border near Salisbury so it’s quite a trek…

Putting the Cart(mel) before the Horse(s) We’d been invited by family to share a Party Tent at the June Cartmel Race Meeting, which is sited just outside the beautiful village of Cartmel on the edge of the English Lake District.…

Mighty Dub Fest – Alnwick   We’ve booked quite a few Festivals this year – some we’ve been to before and some, like Mighty Dub Fest, where we’ll be first timers. It’ll come as no surprise to anyone who knows…

 A Little Gem of a Site – Ettie’s Field Alison and I had a discussion recently about which were our favourite camp sites in the UK. The list was always going to be subjective, but we did agree on some…