I arrived at Belvoir Castle yesterday around 13:30 and promptly got on with installing my 2 new 80Watt solar panels. Pretty straight forward job and took just under 2 hours including time to make the brackets. Its a result. At 10am this morning my batteries were back up to full charge. With the fridge [...]
Cheyne did a fantastic job on my rear rack. I now have a smell free van again and don’t have to keep shifting the waste hog around. The rack on the right has 2 parts to it. The top bar can be unlocked to allow access to the fuel tank. The whole of the to [...]
We have a range of people arriving on site now, some are fulltimers (about half) and the rest are interested in fulltiming I think. Looks like there will be 12 units with maybe 22 people in total. The event tents are up now so a nice central meeting place for those who don’t want to [...]
Living in a small panel van has many upsides but one of the downsides is a serious lack of storage space. As mentioned in a previous post I now have a generator. The big problem with these apart from guzzling petrol and making lots of noise is that they smell really bad for hours after [...]
What a great night I have just had. I was relaxing in my van and I heard a band doing Freebird in the pub. I had a wander across and the band was amazing. I couldn’t see them fully but it looked like a 7 person band and the sound was incredible. They were practicing [...]