A factory California is Volkswagen’s own camper, built in-house. It is not a converted panel van with California-style bits added later. This VW California buying guide is for used T5, T6 and T6.1 models. If you want the newest van, see our California facelift post. If you are buying a converted Transporter, start with our […]
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A campervan diesel heater is the closest thing to a cosy living room you can bolt under a van floor. It sips fuel, hums away and turns a frosty field into somewhere you actually want to wake up. This guide covers how they work and who makes them. It also covers the cheaper heaters loads
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Mountains, castles, lakes and the odd sheep traffic jam: Eryri (Snowdonia) has the lot. It’s one of the best trips you can take in a van, if you know the rules first. This Snowdonia campervan guide covers where you can legally sleep and how to dodge the parking stress at Yr Wyddfa. It also picks
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Plenty of us don’t go anywhere in the van without the dog. A campervan or VW festival can be a great weekend for them too. It only works if you plan for a busy field, music, other dogs and a few nights off routine. This guide covers the practical stuff, so you both enjoy the
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Short answer: no. You can’t sleep in your van anywhere in the UK. Some spots are fine for a quiet night if the signs allow it and you keep everything inside the van. Plenty of others are banned overnight, privately managed, or illegal once you’re asked to leave. Always check the signs, and when in
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Campervan insurance sounds simple until the quote form starts. Self-build or factory California? V5C still says panel van? Agreed value or market value? Europe for three weeks? The forms assume you already know. This guide covers the van properly, in plain English, with no insurance-sales waffle. It sits next to our guide on what buying
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There’s something strange that happens when you own a campervan. You decide to go away for two nights, perhaps three if you’re feeling adventurous, and somehow end up packing enough food, clothes and equipment to survive a small-scale apocalypse. It’s one of the great mysteries of campervan life. You might live perfectly happily at home
You Only Went Away for the Weekend… So Why Have You Packed Enough Food for a Month? Read More »
The day after our Lakes walk we headed east. Two stops were on the list: Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in Britain, and Haworth, the hilltop village where the Brontë sisters grew up. One is all big skies and moorland, the other is steep cobbles and old stone, and together they make a cracking
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Late October, and a simple plan for the day: start in Grasmere, walk up to Rydal Cave, go up and over the fell and finish with a sit down at the Badger Bar in Rydal. It came out at about 8k, and with plenty of photo stops (and one very important bench) it took us
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Every autumn someone in the group asks the same question: where can we still go once the clocks change? Lots of campsites shut for the winter, but plenty don’t. We’ve put together a list of UK campsites that say on their own websites that they’re open through the winter and take campervans and motorhomes. We’ve
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