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Our friend Martin Dorey, author of The Camper Van Cookbook, is off on a road trip with his wife and two daughters this summer, and is writing a blog for us all about their adventures. They’re aiming to visit the most remote chip shop in the UK, on the Isle of Lewis, and along the way they’re hoping to ride the UK’s oldest rollercoaster, go surfing, whale watching and perhaps even catch the Northern Lights. It’s going to be an amazing adventure, and he’ll be writing about and photographing it all for us.

DAY 5: Midges and Pizza

You might not think that you could eat pizza in a camper van, but you can. It’s one of Sarah’s recipes that she’s been working on for The Camper Van Coast (Sarah is my co-author and food guru), you know, just because you can. Living in a camper van doesn’t [...]

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DAY 4: Keeping The Van Sweet

What I failed to mention earlier is that our van had some problems two weeks before our departure in the form of what they call ‘major mechanical failure’. This resulted in a new engine, which, being a campervan engine, needs running in. That means driving carefully and having a service [...]

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DAY 3: The Pleasure Beach

After stopping off at Caldicott in South Wales to see some friends at the VW festival ‘Dubs at the Castle’ (the VW festival I went to last year as part of My TV programme, ‘One Man and his Campervan’) we headed North to Blackpool via Crosby to see Anthony Gormley’s [...]

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DAY 1: Home Sweet Home

I’ve always felt that it’s important to have something in your sights when you set off on a campervan adventure. You need something to aim for: a destination. But of course it doesn’t matter if you don’t get there, as long as you tried. As they say, the journey is [...]

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