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Hitting the Road...


I've never liked B&B's or guest houses and prefer to be independent on my travels so youth hostelling and camping has always had much more appeal.  However, youth hostels are geared up for a younger market and are not always in the areas I wish to visit while campsites have very short seasons and the weather is too unreliable for tenting for much of the year so - car or van-camping became the next obvious step.

In 2004, I purchased a 2002 Renault Kangoo panel van which we fitted out very basically so that it would still function as a van for carrying animal feed, hay bales and 'cash&carry' loads while, the inclusion of a sink unit (ie manual pump tap, jerrican and plastic washing up bowl) together with rearranging the fitted wooden cupboards and stretching a sheet of ply across, allowed a rudimentary bed to be formed.   

With an airbed in place and navy drapes across the windows, I now had my very own low-cost and highly improvised 'campervan' for short trips away, discreetly wildcamping usually at the roadside in quiet country lanes, remote harbours and nestled between where I led my own secret life.   What I never imagined was that I would become so hooked on my trips and these soon extended from short trips to the Brecon Beacons to more major expeditions covering most of the UK from Lands End to John O'Groats with tentative plans to cross the Channel to the continent.

With a Renault Kangoo ....
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