Miles: 396 Total mileage: 2248 Weasel sightings: 1 Fish caught: 1 (Pollock) Wing mirrors smashed: 1 Highest altitude: 4750 ft Vague Route Bergen Somewhere on the Fv55 in Jotunheimen National Park Geiranger Farstadssanden This is the first section of our route taking us to the beginning of ‘the slow road to the North’, the Kystriksveien, or […]
Read More Bergen to the Atlantic Ocean RoadDays: 5 Miles: 883 Total mileage: 1852 Moose sightings: 1 Deer sightings: 2 Weasel sightings: 1 Vague route: Copenhagen – over the Øresund Bridge to Malmö, Sweden Tvetervann lake (Norway) Oslo Flatsjå fjord Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) Bergen For those familiar with ‘The Bridge’, the Scandinavian television murder mystery, I paid homage to the show by […]
Read More Copenhagen to BergenWhy do people live in vans? The reasons that come to my mind first are vaguely the same as those that pop up on Google after a quick search: freedom, simplicity, to save money, to travel, and pure enjoyment. Why do I live in van? Well, mainly to travel, to be with my boyfriend and […]
Read More #ProjectVanLifeDays: 9 Miles: 969 Hitch hikers: 1, Jim ‘Melonsmasher’ Edwards 60 amp fuses broken: 2 Stroopwafels consumed: too many to count Vague route: Tewkesbury to London, UK Harwich ferry crossing to Rotterdam, Holland Westzaan, Amsterdam, Holland Fedderwardsiel, Germany Hamburg, Germnay Ronaes Strand, Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Holland – Our pal Jimmy, who we worked with on […]
Read More Tewkesbury to CopenhagenAnd were outta here!!! We are currently waiting in the local tyre shop to get a new car battery and then out onto the open road, the dusty highway. The last two weeks have been full steam ahead with the final adjustments. The V5C arrived back at HQ far sooner than we had expected. We […]
Read More Van Conversion: Weeks 9 and 10For someone who doesn’t like reading it’s strange that I actually really enjoy writing. Technically I am not the best but I will try. Full disclosures now, if you hate bad punctuation and grammar, do not bother reading this. Most people love adventure if you do I think you will enjoy following Susannah and […]
Read More Why!!I was beginning to lose track of time on this project. The setting off date was being pushed back later and later, everyday was basically the same consisting of wake up, convert van, spend a lot of money, go to bed worrying, along with a piling up of unfinished jobs and people constantly asking when […]
Read More Van Conversion: Weeks 6, 7, and 8
