Van Turismo Diary

Pack down day today and guess what? When we woke it wasn’t raining! Result! So the slow pack down process started and how it works is basically a slow pack down is double the time of a normal pack down. So a pack down should take 1 hour but a slow one is 2. I […]

Woke up with a bit of a sore head today, the first ever gathering of the official Morocco Red Wine club went well and we stayed up until 10ish trading Tavel stories and that was good. We had a pretty decent day for weather today as well. There wasn’t any rain at all which makes

Woke up this morning feeling a little more upbeat, but a bit tired as Rory was having bonus milk at 2am and then again at 6am. But the weather was warm, it wasn’t raining, it has rained over night as there was a puddle on the carpet but i was hopeful that we were over

Its a bit surreal to think i have been doing these diary entries once a day now since the beginning of December. Almost 3 months and still going strong, i do worry that it does get a bit repetitive. That also got me thinking i wonder who read the first ever one? And if there

What a very very peculiar day i have had. We opted to head south today and get some more sunshine and leave Assileh. The plan was simple. Walk around the harbour, walk around the medina and get in the camper and boom. Off we go! Well, that was the plan at least. Harbour done, we

Today was the day we finally went to Africa! We had an alarm set for 6:30am but Rory woke at 5am for his bottle so we ended up going back to bed and set the alarm for 8! Given we had to be at the port for 8:45am I was feeling a bit apprehensive about

I was like a child this morning as today we were going to explore The Rock! I was waxing lyrical yesterday about how amazing it was. Today didn’t disappoint the only thing being Iv done 30k steps and it’s very hilly indeed. But it was worth every step! I alway find that with places of

What a difference the sun makes to VanLife. The previous few days had been so so so windy, but different the sky was blue and there was little wind so it meant we could get the chairs out, the Cadac out etc. we had bacon sandwich’s which was a nice little treat. We had a

In a couple of days time I will be really annoyed that I have wasted the last couple of days. I say wasted but Iv relaxed and chilled. However doing any of the tasks I wanted to do whilst on this site Iv not managed to do. IE empty the cupboards wipe the floor, wipe

I think Chicago is called the Windy City but i bet Tarifa would beat it, easy. It is still blowing an absolute hooley. We have decided that we are going to go into the town of Tarifa today and see what is about and go to the supermarket. So we packed down the pop top,