TPMS is Tyre Pressure Management System – and it is a system that monitors your tyres. Last week, the wife was driving the car that is equipped with TPMS, and for the first time ever the alarm went off. She called me (hands free!) and I said it could be…
Our NV200 has 2x “100AH” leisure batteries, and these are maintained via a 120W solar charger and CTEK D250S MPPT & B2B smart charger, and generally are maintained to a high voltage all the time and never flat. In the summer, the batteries are full by 9/10am from the solar…
We’ve been chatting, and are having thoughts about building another campervan/motorhome more suited to longer adventure trips. We’re talking late 2020 early 2021, so just ideas phase for now, but if all goes to plan we’ll have more time and can plan longer trips 🙂 Watch this space. However, we’ve not…
Sweden was another new country to us, and one that we’d heard mixed things about, generally that there is not a huge amount to see and we should spend more time in Norway! So our expectations were low. But due to the weather being crap in northern Norway, and Sweden…
We didn’t know much about Norway, and we didn’t really have many expectations. We’ve known enough people doing similar trips to know it isn’t that tough, but still didn’t know many answers before we left. So some of our thoughts:- Food and entertainment is very expensive. Think 2-3x UK prices…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Week 5 started with us waking up in the very quiet Skuleskoggen national park after a good walk and nights sleep the day before. A few other vans were parked overnight around the corner, but felt like we…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Our fourth week started with the same dreary cold, wet and windy weather. Not overly wet but buffeting winds and chillingly cold with low clouds, sort of makes looking at the Lofotens a bit pointless. The weather was…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Our third week starts by leaving Trondheim and continuing northward, but the journey out for the first hour or so is fast and dull – really quite uninspiring and quite tiring. The countryside has been a lot less…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE We hit Bergen on the Sunday which meant we were able to finda small pay & display area right in the centre that was free! Phew – otherwise £3/h. Bergen was very very touristy, full of cruise ship…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Seems an age since we talked about getting up to the arctic circle, but at last, we’re on our way! Many things delayed this trip but as its such a long drive, we’re glad we’re now in a…