Hiking has been a hobby of mine for about a decade and early on I bought a GPS which I used in conjunction with a paper map and compass. My first GPS was a Garmin Etrex Summit which I still use today. It’s suffered a few heavy knocks, scrapes and soakings but still works as…
A group of 9 of us left the London area on Friday evening headed for a camping weekend in Dorset staying at Durdle Door Holiday Park. Ellie, Lucy, Martina and I would stay in my motorhome whilst Jo, Elizabeth, May, Tracey and Leo had booked tent pitches. By the time we had all arrived, had…
For the early May bank holiday I decided to head to Cornwall with a small group of friends from my hiking group. Fiona, Nicole, Roy and myself would stay in the motorhome whilst May and her little dog would be camping in her tent. Our accommodation was SeaView International who claim to be the only…
When I bought the motorhome it came with a single 75Ah leisure battery which is very limiting when you do as much wild camping as I do. Whilst I’ve upgraded some of the interior lights to LED, the ones above the dinette which are the ones I use the most are still halogen. Using these…
Four of us met up for this weekend to do the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge. I’d done the challenge twice before and was delighted to see a weather forecast that seemed to promise bright sunshine. We got up early on Saturday morning to drive to the start point, Pen y Ghent cafe in Horton in…
Well I’ve tried to come up with more ‘downsides’ to motorhome life but still could not make 10 so here is my list of the 5 worst things about living in a motorhome. 1. Grass pitches. Not an issue when I’m wild camping and most of the time on campsites I’ve had hardstanding. However twice…