A new lid for Bertie
02/06/2023 A new lid Back in March, when we were in France and Bertie was covered in snow, we had a small incident with poor Bertie’s lid. The clear dome… Read more »
Category: Modifications
Of Mice and Upholstery
Bertie has finally made it out of storage. It’s not the first journey of the year; earlier in January Bertie popped out for an MOT, failed and then had to… Read more »
Steering in the Wrong Direction
16/07/18 – 18/07/18 A long time ago, in a land far far away (well, Spain) we had a bit of an issue with our steering. When adjusting our tracking the… Read more »
No More Wet Trainers
09/07/18 – 15/07/18 After our time in Taunton we picked up Bertie from storage and took the short drive to Exmouth, settling ourselves on a good value campsite with fantastic… Read more »
Back on the road
After our MOT disappointment we finally managed to get away. We said goodbye to friends in Exmouth (again) and had a night at home in Taunton; using the laundry of… Read more »
The Money Pit
Bertie has been a bad motorhome, using most of our annual repair budget getting through the MOT. We knew that we had an ABS issue, but a couple of other… Read more »
Where did the Water go?
On our way back from Wales we stopped in at Taunton to see family. We stayed at a different campsite this time – Tanpits Cider Farm – which saw us settled… Read more »
Bald Rubber
One of the things we had to do while in Anglesey was replace our front tyres. Paul had noticed that Bertie wasn’t driving quite as responsively as previously (if you can… Read more »
A little bit about electricity
During our time in Betws y Coed, sitting under tree cover and in rain for a couple of days, our solar panels failed to charge the Leisure battery. This is… Read more »
Shell Island
It’s been a week since we were in Shell Island, but we’ve had limited 3G/4G signal so it’s been difficult to post. This was also the last day of the… Read more »
Cooking on Gas
We left the Pembrokeshire coast looking for something a bit different to do while the rain continued to fall on us. We drove to our next wild camping spot a… Read more »
Enjoying some peace and quiet?
We made our way down from the Brecons to spend a couple of nights in a campsite, we had a few sweaty garments to wash and a few tweaks to make… Read more »
Home Turf
Our first week of being on the road was, well… not really on the road. We travelled all of two miles to find ourselves on Prattshayes campsite in Exmouth. The… Read more »