We’ve owned a Glawning since they were first produced by those two lovely Yorkshire entrepreneurs, James and Sarah. We bought one of the first types in 2014 and spent over an hour erecting it for the first time at the…
This was our first trip to Dubs in t’Dales, although the show has been running for 6 years. It’s held at Camp Katur near Bedale in North Yorkshire and was much bigger than we’d anticipated. We’d booked a Club…
We’d only booked one Festival this year: {No6} in the village of Portmeirion. Built in an Italianate style by Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis over the period from 1954 until 1976, the village is best known as the setting for The Prisoner,…
We’d been planning our trip to the Ile de Re for months – not only would we get two weeks with our extended family on the island but also two weeks with the Brazilianvwbay crew as they met in the…
Absinthe is due an MOT and service before we head to France so we’d once again booked into Knight’s Folly at Bitton for a few days. First, though, was a trip to Huddersfield to finally take advantage of a Sleepover…
This was our 5th Camperjam (we missed last year) and it was probably the best, through a combination of good weather, a good state of mind and good friends from the Brazilianvwbay Forum. It was the first time we’d camped…
It’s the mid-summer solstice so it must be time for the Northern Chapter of the Brazilianvwbay Forum to hold their annual event. It fell to Alison and I to organise the event this year and it’s been in the planning…
A photo filled Blog this time, including lots “borrowed” from other visitors to the Festival. Thanks to everyone who contributed their pics. What a fantastic weekend we had at Glampfest, the inaugural Festival organised by James and Sarah, those lovely…
Another year, another Brazilian VW Bay Sleepover, this year with 38 vans and a Space theme. We left home around 10.30am (in the rain – the first we’ve seen for two weeks) to grace the M6 with our presence yet…
We’d planned a couple of things for the early May Bank Holiday – we were due to go to The Cross Keys at Cautley Spout with friends on Saturday to do some walking and then have a meal, before moving…
The season is now properly underway, so it would have been rude not to book somewhere for Easter. It’s always tricky knowing where to head – the sites get full quite early before Bank Holidays and certainly before the weather…
At last the season has started properly with our annual trip to West Cumbria for the Eskdale Dubfest held at the campsite in Boot, run so brilliantly by Martyn Merckel and his team. The site has recently left the Camping…
Absinthe’s first outing of 2017 was a trip to Danbury, in Yate, for her Minor Service and to have a new aerial fitted. We didn’t have Boris with us, so we opted to stay two nights at the Cross…
