Van Turismo Diary

After a lovely couple of days it was decided that we were to move on, we needed to do a wash ASAP. There is a song from a band called ‘The View’ and it was called “Same Jeans”. The lyrics essentially start like this “iv had the same jeans on for 4 days now” and […]

Had another one of those really amazing days today, the sort that make you feel all fuzzy and gooey inside. Before I get started happy birthday to my Nan who has had a little birthday party this afternoon, us 3 here love you lots x Today started like many others in Portugal which is about

Woke up this morning about 7am to have a nice hot shower, the first one in about 6 days. I think I have mentioned before the frustration of staying on a site and the showers being cold. It is so so frustrating so it was nice today to get 3rd degrees burns for a change.

A very welcome boring day!! Rory has somehow found himself in a routine where he is waking up around 5am so by the time he has his first bottle and his first nap he is awake by p9am. That last week was about 11am. Especially in the chilly mornings here pushing him around the town

Woke up at 3am by the Wee man I instantly worried thinking it was the cold but he was hungry so scoffed a bonus bottle! The camper was actually really warm we have a really good electric heater from Outdoor Revolution do we had no issues with heat which was a relief. It was wild

God. Today was a day of 2 halves. First half was lovely, well actually annoying as hell, had spent the previous day editing a video only for the software to not save it for some reason so I spent 2 hours moping around and packing the awning away etc. Apart from that a nice day,

I am a lucky man today i have pretty much been left to me own devices editing and doing other social work whilst Lisa has been in charge of the Wee Man. My legs don’t hurt from yesterday yet which i find strange but it is normally 2 days when it gets you so tomorrow

Certainly getting into a rhythm with this Vanlife stuff, it does certainly get easier as you get used to it. I started the morning at about 09:30 taking the Wee Man for a 1.5 mile walk as he woke way way too early from his nap. So as soon as i heard him stir and

You would not believe what a difference the nice weather makes, well, that’s a stupid thing to say as in theory it is obvious what a difference it makes. It was still drizzling about 4 this morning and i was starting to question the decision to move further south early, questioning whether i should get

We have a confession to make, where the camper van should have sat had absolutely no shelter and was in some kind of a wind tunnel, there was no way i could risk putting the pop top up in that, it either would lifted the camper off the floor or ripped the pop top off