For the 4th year we’d booked into Masons Campsite at Appletreewick for the Craven Arms Beer Festival, an annual battle of the beers between Yorkshire brews and (this year) breweries from Northumberland*. We arrived on Thursday, to a wet and…
The 27th September is officially #BraziBayPride Day; a day to celebrate our Brazilian made, T2c Kombis. This is a Blog with few words but, instead, photos of Forum members vans on this special day. …
To the Glamping Show This was trip with a difference because we had our Craftcover.com hats on, so technically it was work, although to be honest it was fun too. Craftcover is very much Alison’s baby and provides…
Waterside House – What a site! The weathermen were promising a heat wave in mid-September, so it seemed crazy not to take advantage, with an impromptu trip, but where to go? We’d been talking about fitting a trip to the…
Dufton Good, Duff Weather; Not so Good… Our friend, Simon, occasionally abandons work for a while and takes off in his van, Skooby, on a UK adventure, so we were very lucky to join him in Absinthe for a…
The Brecon Beacons beckoned… We’d been due to go to Camper Calling in Warwickshire over the August Bank Holiday but personal stuff got in the way and we had to give it a miss, which was a shame because apparently…
BraziBays at Beadnell Bay After Edinburgh, we headed to Northumberland to visit our friends Tony and Penny, who work on the Camping and Caravan Club site at Beadnell Bay. They also happen to own a beautiful Brazilian T2c called, Lily.…
The Fringe (and beyond…) We’d been to the Edinburgh Fringe before but only for one day and we’d not had chance to take in more than one show before. We’re often away in August, but this year we booked…
Pitched in the Park – 2016 Tatton Park VW Show We’d attended the Tatton Park VW Show once before as visitors, but usually we’re on holiday in early August, so can’t make it. This year was an exception, made all…
Bitton Again – July 2016 Knights Folly Camp Site, Bitton This is the 3rd year that we’ve stayed at this small Caravan and Camping Club site between Bath and Bristol. It’s ideally placed, so that we can take Absinthe…
A One Night Stand in the Ribble Valley Our friends, Geoff & Dave were staying at the Camping and Caravanning Club site in Clitheroe, a mere 30 minutes from our home, so it seemed like a great idea to…
Herd ‘Em Up There’s a festival in The Ribble Valley called Beatherder and it’s only 30 minutes from home, so it seems churlish that we’ve never been. It does have a certain reputation – mainly from people who haven’t been,…
The Haworths at Hulme End We try and gather with Alison’s family once a year for a weekend break and in 2016 we’d chosen Hulme End in Derbyshire. The plan was for us to use Absinthe, Richard and Mandy to…
Absinthe says No to Europe All packed and ready to go… This year’s holiday trip to Spain and France got off to a bad start, when Absinthe decided she’d have an early Brexit and broke down after 9 miles…
Wet, Wet, Wet in Bakewell… …not the Marti Pellow fronted band of course, simply a description of the weather for this year’s Northern Chapter Meet. We arrived at the Greenhills Site just outside Bakewell in the early afternoon,…
Brazilian VW Bay Sleepover – May 2016 The Brazilianvwbay.com Forum has held an annual get together since 2011, organised and co-ordinated by the Club’s founder, Tim Votier and his gang of able volunteers. The event has grown year on year and…
The Cud Life: Close Encounters of a Bovine Kind When we’d travelled to York recently, we’d spotted an ad for The Decorative Home and Salvage Show being held at Ripley on the weekend of 14th/15th/16th May and, given that…
Ee, boy, ‘ow come, you’re in York? We’d planned to go to Shropshire for the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, but a still-poorly dog and even poorer weather forecasts, meant that we cancelled our plans. We were prepared to…
Lights, camera, action… Prologue August 2015: We’re on holiday on the Ile de Re in France with the Brazilian Kombi Krew, when I’m tagged in a Facebook post by Martin Dorey. Apparently, he’s been appointed as a judge by the…
Eskdale Dubfest 2016 We missed last year’s event because Alison and I both had ‘flu and, typically, they had glorious sunshine. In 2014 when we last went it was one of the wettest weekends of the year, so…
