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 | 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 | 23 Aug, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, England, Scotland
The time is eight a.m. on Saturday the 24th of August, and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is snoozing peacefully in a corner of the motorhome friendly carpark in Ripon, North Yorkshire. ( 54.136200,-1.52054 ) Just round the corner the bells are ringing out at Ripon...
by Fi | 24 Feb, 2019 | Nomad Life, Scotland, Winter Tour 2017-2018
Eighteen days to ferry time and those infamous, cliched butterflies are having a fiesta in my stomach. A rowdy one. With bells and whistles. And mucho, molto enthusiastic dancing! I like butterflies as well as the next crazy nomad. But those wee guys are starting...
by Fi | 02 Jan, 2019 | England, Mishaps & Misadventures, Nomad Life, Scotland, Spring Tour 2017
On 23rd April 2017 Jay, DM and I woke up to the second morning of our own, personal, awfully big adventure. Life in a motorhome! Iggy the Hymer was slumbering peacefully in the Sunday morning quiet outside the Scottish Government building in Edinburgh. Considering...
by Fi | 01 Jan, 2019 | Mishaps & Misadventures, Nomad Life, Scotland, Spring Tour 2017
,,I used to dream I would turn a corner in the road one day and there it would be. Nestled, half hidden by wood and scented shrubs. Bees buzzing busily in the rose bushes. The sea waiting, just out of sight, down the twisting, turning, garden path. My dream house. My...
