Land Rover Defender Corrosion issues I promised to do some posts about our planned trip, which we are due to depart on in 11 days. As of now we have not even booked the channel tunnel crossing or got our international driving permits. We are cutting it fine this year. Every Defender 110 owner knows […]
Needed a lightweight stove for a micro adventure On Friday, I needed to get a lightweight stove for a quick camping microadventure on Saturday night. I did not want to buy one and was considering self heating meals and no coffee in the morning. Until I found inspiration from a post on twitter to a video by
Last weekend we got lucky with the weather, mostly. We spent a couple of nights camping in Wales. On the way we decided we’d break the journey, by stopping the night at a pub that allows camping in their garden. So we stopped in Wiltshire at The Parish Lantern, highly recommended. The whole journey avoided
Well as I mentioned earlier in this post, we have been thinking about what we might do this summer. Actually we have been thinking since last summer. I guess we are probably not alone on this, we tend to think from trip to trip, from day to day, even during a trip. I guess most people who
As I mentioned in this post, we had some issues with the MyWay Serengeti tent, but we loved it. But we need to get the niggles sorted. Luckily Paul was on hand with advice and apologies. After a few nights in the tent, we did discover the first issue with the tent, which we now have
With the weather getting better and a short camping trip planned for next weekend, we decided this weekend was probably the most sensible time to get the tent on the Landy and the awning set up, ready for opportunities to go camping and the summer trip. The other good thing given that this weekend is
Reprint of a book no longer published. Luckily someone took time to preserve it. “Two-Up” By Scooter to Australia. Link was posted on Horizons Unlimited. Enjoy!
With the weather forecast looking good, we decided that today we were going for a walk, a walk with criteria. The criteria was that it had to have a start and finish at a railway station and that we wanted to say away from crowds. It also had to have locations that would be suitable
We found ourselves at a loose end this morning, the weather was iffy. So we took a pleasant train ride into London for a wonder. We had the forthcoming road trip on our minds. We are considering are plans for the summer trip, so we spontaneously decided we’d pop to the Stanfords map shop in
In starting to consider this year’s (2013) plan, i thought i would post some recorded figures from last summer road trip. Some stats from our last trip from 27th July to the 26th August 2012. Which do you want to know more about!