Hi, and welcome back to my travel journal. Today I will go through the primary cooking equipment we use in our campervan, alongside a few of the go-to dishes we make. There has been a lot of trial and error in creating the perfect cooking setup for the camper. We...
Hi, and welcome to another instalment of my Travel Journal. This one is going to be a little different in tone. When I think of Valentia Island, I see it as a place I feel rather than a series of boxes I tick. In this week's post, I want to capture the essence of the...
Hi, and welcome back to my travel journal. This week I will do a cost breakdown of a twelve-day / eleven nights trip we took around Ireland in our campervan at the end of April. Previously on short trips or holidays, I never tracked finances. But, our plan for the...
Van conversion from a minibus to a campervan New website/new name Welcome back to my travel journal. Earlier this year, I migrated all of my content from the various websites I ran into one, mainly because I wanted to streamline all of my writing in one place and not...
Hi, before I even start this latest blog post, I have to apologise. My last post here was way back in April, just after we finished our van conversion, and somewhere along the way, we got so busy campervanning I couldn't find the time to sit down and get my thoughts...
Campervan Conversion Alice, yep, we finally named our campervan only a year after buying her as a nine-seater minibus. Officially she is an Opel Vivaro, and we finished the final conversion to a camper a week ago. Last year we did a temporary conversion to see what...
So week one in Spain, and it was definitely a long week of traveling. After looking at all our options to travel here, because we wanted to bring our dog with us, we finally settled on a newly inaugurated Brittany ferry service taking us directly from Cork/Ringaskiddy...
Note: Camping is not allowed on Aillebrack by order. Please take note of the sign. Thank you to John for contacting me with the updated information and sending the image. I originally wrote this post in August 2017, and many things have changed since then. Including a...
The village of Cong is just a short forty-five-minute drive from our house in Galway and on a sunny weekend it is a great place to visit for a short break. This summer we have endeavoured to make the most of any sunny weekends by camping. Our tent and accessories are...
The following weekend we headed, this time to the East side of Ireland, Donard in Co Wicklow, to be precise. Initially, I called a different campsite, but they were all booked up. They kindly gave us Nuala’s number; thankfully, they had space. Note: I would definitely...