rach82
Guest
This is our van - just spent a week touring Scotland
lenny
Guest
Good on ya Rach82, how was your trip.
Deleted member 5816
Guest
We all started somewhere !!!
looks Brill Rachel
come in 82
Alf
looks Brill Rachel
come in 82
Alf
Jacques le foot
Guest
You look sooooo cosy in there. You will NEVER have as much fun as you do with your first van, and you'll always remember it ..no matter what you eventually aspire to..this one will be 'special'.
We are now 'oldies' but still smile when we think about our first van
Enjoy !!!!
Jackie
We are now 'oldies' but still smile when we think about our first van
Enjoy !!!!
Jackie
cipro
Guest
Could not agree more
getting out there is the answer but that WORKthing keeps getting in the way
lenny
Guest
Memories
I remember our first tour of Scotland about 30 years ago
, I had an old Austin 1100 (Lime Green)
with a DIY Wooden roof rack and our canvas tent and belongings stacked on top.
Those were the days
I remember our first tour of Scotland about 30 years ago
, I had an old Austin 1100 (Lime Green) with a DIY Wooden roof rack and our canvas tent and belongings stacked on top.Those were the days
burpysmurf
Guest
Looks fab - we used to have an old Escort Van till some git nicked it - found at Holyhead and written off a very sad day for us: Many good memories!
Many good memories!rach82
Guest
Hi everyone
Had a great trip thanks.. think i'm kind of hooked on this wild camping malarky...
and even more in love with Scotland than I was before
Had a great trip thanks.. think i'm kind of hooked on this wild camping malarky...
and even more in love with Scotland than I was before
Boxerman
Guest
There seemed to be rather a dearth of the wee beasties this year, apart from one night by the side of Loch Maree we found very few - or to be more precise, very few found us.
Frank
derekfaeberwick
Guest
Only way to go Rach. Especially Scotland.
rach82
Guest
midges
Well .. I was pretty prepared....
I took vit B1 tablets, citronella insence sticks, mosquito coils, avon skin so soft, citronella candles, midge spray & repellent
but... they were still a pain in the evening if you stayed still for too long, but I dont mind walking up and down in such wonderful scenery with a glass of wine
Didnt get bitten at all, they just annoyed a bit
Well .. I was pretty prepared....
I took vit B1 tablets, citronella insence sticks, mosquito coils, avon skin so soft, citronella candles, midge spray & repellent
but... they were still a pain in the evening if you stayed still for too long, but I dont mind walking up and down in such wonderful scenery with a glass of wine
Didnt get bitten at all, they just annoyed a bit
Boxerman
Guest
Didnt get bitten at all, they just annoyed a bit
That will have been the boy midges then - it's only the girls that bite
Frank
shawbags
Guest
small cosey and cheap.
Hi there,i have owned many campers, aprox 12 VW's as my hobbie was restoring them and various other campers including an elddiss autostratus coachbuit.The best fun was in the basic vans,cheap,cosey and normaly more ecanomical.With your van you don't have the expence of a coachbuilt spending more time on your drive than on the road,if you bump it on a sainsburys car park post you shrug your sholders and carry on without a thought,you can use it as your car and being small you can hide away in those little wild camping spots.Sod the expence of having a fiited bog and shower and looking the part keep it cheap and cheerfull you will have more fun as you are. I sold a mercedes 308D that cost me £150 to buy and after a bit of welding shot through the mot and averaged 40 MPG so i could buy a coachbuilt to tour spain,big mistake.The coachbuilt was great if you where actualy in it but found we only actualy slept in it,i should have kept the mercedes,hope you get my drift,all the best, Shawbags. P.S excuse my grammer
Hi there,i have owned many campers, aprox 12 VW's as my hobbie was restoring them and various other campers including an elddiss autostratus coachbuit.The best fun was in the basic vans,cheap,cosey and normaly more ecanomical.With your van you don't have the expence of a coachbuilt spending more time on your drive than on the road,if you bump it on a sainsburys car park post you shrug your sholders and carry on without a thought,you can use it as your car and being small you can hide away in those little wild camping spots.Sod the expence of having a fiited bog and shower and looking the part keep it cheap and cheerfull you will have more fun as you are. I sold a mercedes 308D that cost me £150 to buy and after a bit of welding shot through the mot and averaged 40 MPG so i could buy a coachbuilt to tour spain,big mistake.The coachbuilt was great if you where actualy in it but found we only actualy slept in it,i should have kept the mercedes,hope you get my drift,all the best, Shawbags. P.S excuse my grammer