Our motorhome blog contains over a decade of blog posts. Starting when we quit work for our once in a lifetime tour of Europe.

We returned after two years and transformed our lives, achieving financial freedom, which enables us to travel whenever we want.

Yes, that lock took 3 hours to fit. Turns out it's 1.5" thick door in a door frame and not for a loft hatch. Some 'alterations' were necessary!

I’ll never make a carpenter…

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We're planning to leave some of our belongings in the loft of…

Free Power, Nearly… Solar PV Panel has arrived

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The solar panels for our Hymer B544 motorhome have arrived. We open the box and see what is inside and what else we'll need to fit them.
Dave's LPG tank, before being repainted

LPG tank rubbin’!

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Dave came with a rather handy LPG tank; not for the engine but…

Amateurs!

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We had a shakedown van test for a couple of days in Derbyshire…

Decluttering Continues…

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We continue with the decluttering. Sorting what we want to keep/store/send to charity shops/throw away/recycle while we're away in our motorhome for a year.

Waxoyl, everywhere…!

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Spent a lovely couple of hours today under the back of the van…
Dave the motorhome

Why wait? We Bring Our Motorhome Tour Forward

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We decide to bring forward depature for our year-long motorhome tour. Problem one, we don't have a motorhome - time to hit eBay!
J and new gates

Drives and vans part II

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Hymer motorhomes are wide, so before we buy one for our year-long tour of Europe, we have to widen our drive to fit it on!
Widening the drive

Drives and vans.

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Having decided that we wanted to buy a Hymer B544 motorhome, we set about widening our driveway at home to accommodate it.