by Fi | 28 Dec, 2019 | Nomad Life, Scotland
A Very Vanlife Christmas – Leith to Penicuik It’s Friday the 27th December and the gentle patter of rain wakes me in Iggy’s drop down bed. It is still dark, and the early morning fog in my brain swirls clear both as slowly, and as suddenly, as a real...
by Fi | 24 Dec, 2019 | Nomad Life
Changes – A Normal Modern Nomad It’s four in the morning of Monday the 23rd of December 2019 and I am lying, wide awake, in my comfy drop down bed in Iggy the Hymer. Jay is off working a twelve hour nightshift, and Marley is dreaming doggy dreams beneath...
by Fi | 30 Nov, 2019 | Nomad Life
It’s Friday the 29th of November 2019, and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is parked up on a quiet side street in the town of Forfar, North East Scotland. It is a month since we returned from our last tour around the Balkans. And in that month I have mostly been ill....
by Fi | 15 Nov, 2019 | Mishaps & Misadventures, Nomad Life, Scotland
The day is Friday the 15th of November, and I’m sitting typing at the viewing window in Stainless Creations, Falkirk, Scotland. Stainless Creations, as some of you may remember, is the workshop we found to make us a brand new, custom, stainless steel exhaust for...
by Fi | 11 Oct, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Germany
The first thing that struck me about Buchenwald was the sheer ordinariness of it. No medieval castle dungeons here. Dripping dank water, atmospherically, down ancient stone walls. Just some squat, grey, featurless walls, a long wire fence, and a big open space dotted...
