Travels

Dreamy little caravan for sale, said my ad on Trade me. The title came from my heart, as it was a dream of ours right from the start. The dream to get away for little breaks.   To re-energise when my parents were both unwell, and I was working full-time, and we just needed to […]

We upgraded out caravanning gear this trip with three simple items… Firstly a bright green door mat.  I spotted the 4 giant rubber jigsaw pieces at the Lions Garage sale in Cambridge. Not sure what its original purpose was, maybe under a child’s swing, but 1500 square centimeters  of green rubber makes a much softer […]

All summer our caravan has sat in the drive, while we travelled in in southern Thailand and Vietnam. The lovely spa town of Te Aroha  enticed us back into our caravan after far too long away. It was a perfect, calm, warm weekend of late summer. In spite of months of neglect, the caravan was up […]

I am now ‘the lady in the van’. I am not parked next to Alan  Bennett, but to Alex the handyman. I am not in a driveway in North London but on the edge of Lake Rotorua, Aotearoa , New Zealand. There the comparison must end, as I would hate to turn out like the […]

The simpler we want the caravan to be, the more equipment it seems to need. We have an awning, poles, footing, a fresh water container, a grey water container, plus two bright pink outdoor chairs. All this needs to be stored. We needed a small shed. But sheds come in flat packs, and someone has […]