Or bearing in mind we’re talking about Carlos the Karmann Ghia here, should that be friends in low places? You may recall from the Volksworld Show post, that after we’d got back from the show back in March we spent some time putting together an email to Volksworld Magazine in the hope that they might …
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Wedding Bells
First of all, not mine! Last weekend saw my good buddy Brad finally tie the knot with the lovely Ros – and not before time! Having bought Carlos the Karmann Ghia last year, what better car was there to take him to the church? His drive from Reading to the very, very pleasant Hanbury Manor …
Happy New Year?
So here we are, almost a month into 2013! I think we’ll just skirt past Christmas 2012, as most of it was spent moving out of the flat – not the happiest of experiences. So far this year I’ve driven the bug more than I have for months – mainly thanks to the DVLA hitting …
Autumnal Update
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 …
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 …