Camp, Cook, Dine
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…
2019
Glawning Owners Group Meet at Ettie’s Field
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
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
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.…
Outsidegang Freebird Outdoor Cooler Table
If you’re a regular to this Blog, you’ll have seen us singing the praises of one of our newest pieces of kit, the Outsidegang Freebird Outdoor Cooler Table, and I’m pleased to let you know that you can now get…
Edinburgh Festival
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
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)
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.…
North East is Best…
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
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…
Glampfest 2019
Glampfest 2019 Those lovely people from Glawning had organised their wonderful festival, Glampfest, for May, in the usual venue of Ivy Bank Campsite in the beautiful village of Kirkby Malzeard between Masham* and Ripon and we were really looking forward…
The Show that’s not a Show
The Show that’s not a Show This was our first VW event with Dubs in Law VW Club, who describe their Group as: Dubs in Law VW Club: Launched a long, long time ago Dubs in Law is for drivers,…
Ella’s 18th Birthday
Ella’s 18th Birthday Amid brilliant warm sunshine, we set off down the M6 to Leicestershire, where we’d booked a couple of nights at Kendeline Fields Farm campsite on the outskirts of a small village called Claybrooke Parva. For once the…
Good Friday Picnic
Good Friday Picnic The forecast was for sunshine and high temperatures so we quickly put a plan together to have a family picnic with one of our many daughters and her family. So where to go? A quick search for…
Eskdale Dubfest 2019
Eskdale Dubfest 2019 I’m starting this Blog with a philosophical question. “Can you run a VW Festival when you know nothing about VeeDubs?” No, I havent got an answer, but I’ll come back to the question later. This was our…
Bring me sunshine…
Bring me sunshine The forecast had been for a dry, sunny week which always makes everyone feel better, so we planned to take Absinthe out for the day on Friday. But where to go? We were keen to use the…
CamperMart 2019
CamperMart 2019 Despite having our Brazilian T2c, Absinthe, for nearly 8 years, we’d never got around to visiting CamperMart at the Telford International Centre, so, when we got the opportunity to display our van, along with those of some other…