This year, Wendy’s Biological Parents are flying over from Australia to join us for our Summer trip across Europe. We have decided on 3 places that we will definitely stop at, Paris, Venice and Pisa. Keeping these in mind, we planned a rough route for this years trip. Having a route is all fine and […]
During the trip last year into the Balkan states, we had a slight issue that the split charge contactor started failing to close. At first this was intermittent, then it became permanent in the heat. I was sometimes able to get it to close by tapping the contactor with a fair force. Eventually that did
If you read our blog regularly, you may have noticed that I am new to video editing stuff and that I have recently discovered the fun of the iMovie app for the iPad. Consquentially there are a few video clips starting to appear. We are armed with extra SD cards to allow more of this
Just been playing with the iPad iMovie app. Last year when we were passing through Serbia on our overlanding trip, we were following the GPS to go from the Studenica monastery to Durmitor, in Montenegro and ended up going along an unpaved gravel road. This as it turned out, was the foundation for a section
After 14 years, the Defender doors had started to droop! It is widely known that Defender hinges wear, they wear at the interface between the pin and the body which is fixed to the door. Mine had so much play my door leaked. In addition to the wear, they also start to corrode from the
The binnacle on the Defender is the part that surrounds the instruments in front of the driver, it secures to the underside of the dashboard top surface. The binnacle is also known as the instrument cowl. Item 1 In the picture on the left. The binnacle provides a frame to mount the instrument panel and
If you have read about our trip last year, you will know that we locked the keys in the Landy in Croatia. We normally have at least a door key on us each, in order to try and prevent this situation. However it was quite late in the holiday and the inevitable happened. Both doors
Over the years we have used various travel related books, which we view as essential for both overland and road trips. Here are some of our favourites. Some of these books have been good, some have been great and some we just did not get on with. This may not mean they are bad, it
FTP8030 Land Rover Defender 300TDI This is how to check and test for intercooler leaks, the simple way. My Defender has had what I think is a typical intercooler leak for quite some time, which leads to some power loss often notable on hills. I attempted to sort it out last summer prior to our
After two years of road trips into Europe and the prospect of more lengthy and exotic trips in the future, the struggle with not having enough cold beer got too much. We decided to look at our options for a portable travel car fridge. In the land of 12 volt fridges all is not equal.