An ominous looking sky on Friday evening (courtesy of Liz [Roobarb]) After a stressful week that involved suspending two of our senior members of staff, I was ready for a relaxing break. This weekend brought the Northern Meet…
Absinthe was due her 12 month major service so we’d booked to take her to Danbury in Yate, north of Bristol on Friday, 21st September. We set off after a Board Meeting on the Thursday evening to head to Gloucester…
Alison took Absinthe up to our static van at Sedbergh with 3 of her friends for the weekend. I wasn’t there so can’t do much of a report except to say that there was drink involved and late nights –…
A chance to escape back to Shropshire took us to Small Batch campsite in Little Stretton (just down the road from Church Stretton). We’d found the site in the Cool Camping guide and when I rang to book on Thursday…
I thought it might be useful putting up a post letting people know where you can hire a Brazilian Bay like Absinthe, so here are some links: Tallulah Rudi Lulu Mushroom & Pumpkin http://www.vankampers.co.uk/ http://www.danburymotorcaravans.com/ These are people who are…
Hoddom Castle, Ecclefechan, Aug 2012 For a change, instead of heading south down the M6 we decided to go north and over the border into Scotland. The decision was partly made because we couldn’t get into any of the sites…
We’ve heard a lot about a new Electronic Power Steering system called Litesteer, developed by Oakley Innovations and decided to have it fitted to Absinthe along with an Empi gear shifter to make gear selection easier. Having spoken to Neil…
The last week in July and our biggest Absinthe adventure so far as we set off for three weeks in France. We drove down to Portsmouth for the Ferry to St Malo in typical 2012 UK summer weather i.e sunshine,…
Camperjam arrived at last, but we nearly didn’t go. We woke to torrential rain at home on Friday (as forecast) and despite being almost packed and ready to go, were in two minds as to whether to risk it. I…
We’re just back from The BrazilianVwBay Forum Sleepover at Anita’s Camp Site in Mollington, near Banbury and what a weekend it was. The drive down the M6 on Friday was horrendous – we started in torrential rain, which petered out…
We’ve bought a new awning and wanted to have a trial run of putting it up ahead of next week’s Kombi Sleepover in Banbury, so we ignored the weather forecast and set off for County Durham. We stopped at North…
Out first proper trip of 2012 and we’d planned to stay at a pub near Leominster which has a camping field behind. We stopped at the services near Shrewsbury but parking wasn’t easy with…
6th April, 2012 We took Absinthe up to our static van in Sedbergh on Thursday night for a few days away (being joined by the family on Saturday with us sleeping in the Camper to give us enough room). On…
24th March 2012 Our first camping trip of the year this weekend. We left home on Thursday afternoon to go to Danbury for a service and to spend Saturday at Volksworld which is being held at Sandown park, Esther in…
8th January, 2012 First trip out in C13MPR in 2012 was to the National Trust’s Dunham Massey estate in Cheshire. Mrs B had promised my a dry day in Cheshire (I’m sick of the wind and rain). No such luck…
