Wow – what a summer that was! Can’t remember the last time I saw so much rain! As a result of the constant bad weather we didn’t get away anywhere near as much as I would have liked in the bus, and the bug barely made it out of the garage. Our first couple of …
Author Archives: Jonny
Dubfreeze 2012
It must be over 12 years since I’ve been to Dubfreeze at the County Showground in Stafford, so I was eager to see what had changed in the time since I last visited. My main observation was that it was a whole lt busier than it was last time I made the trip – it …
Postcards From Wolfsburg
Back in 2002 me and my good buddy Brad (now the proud owner of Carlos the Karmann Ghia) went on an 800 mille road trip around northern Germany. Our trusty hire car (a Seat Vario!) took us from Hamburg to Berlin, to Leipzig and then the home of VW – Wolfsburg. We might have got …
Cleaning Clarence
One of the first things my long-suffering other half said to me when I bought the bus was “I’m not getting in that thing until you’ve cleaned it!”. To be fair to her, there’s absolutely no way I would have spent a night in the bus in the state that it was in – it …
The French Road Trip
Following the abandoning the of The German Job, we decided to take the bug over to France for a few days in mid September. The plan was to visit my Great Grandfather’s WWI grave at Guillemont Rd Cemetery on the 95th anniversary of his death. In the few days before we were due to sail …
The VW Family Grows
I’ve finally gone and done it. I’ve been hankering after a camper for a while now, and whilst I’d have loved a split, it just wasn’t a viable option. I spent hours browsing the forums, much to my other half’s chagrin, and it’s now become a reality. Quite a big reality as it happens, because …