Tired of the unpredictable British weather that we’re having this summer, we’ve decided to postpone the tour of our glorious country until another year and instead run to the sun in Europe. We’ve updated our planned route map to reflect our route which will cover: North East France: The Champagne region. Switzerland Most of Italy, […]

I have a feeling Yoko is going to introduce us to lots of new people. When you have a VW, you find that everyone wants to talk to you about them and offer you advice on maintenance and restoration, as well as asking you how much you paid for your camper. We’ve had lots of […]

Yoko is our new VW Type 25 campervan. We finally collected her from the mechanic on the 13th August and brought her to my parents house in Leicestershire for a good clean.  It has taken a while to scrub her up, mainly due to the UBELIEVABLE amount of dog hair covering the interior (I am […]

Due to other modes of transport (we’ll explain later), I’m reluctantly selling “GOJ”, my faithful Rover 214i. It is an ‘S’ reg 3 door with a 1.4 engine and has LOW MILEAGE (51 000) miles. Features power steering, remote central locking,  immobiliser and CD/MP3 player. It has a full 12 months MOT and 4 months […]

Thanks to all who have let me know about the annoying broken comments form, which would give the impression of cutting-off long lines of text when using Internet Explorer on Windows. After wrestling with technology for a few hours, I hope that it’s now fixed. Please would you do me a favour and help me test […]

We’re boosting our stuff into parental storage in Leicester and Newport right now. Normal service will resume towards the end of the week. (daveb gets to play the angry white van man for a few days.)

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Woa there horsey! We’re just starting out ourselves and so it’s probably a little too soon to answer this one effectively. We’ll be posting our travel tips as we go along that we hope you’ll find useful. For starters, I just finished reading The Rough Guide to the First-Time Around the World which offers guidance […]

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That is a great question. Medium-term, Escape the City is going to be a great place for us to keep a travel diary and photos to share with you. Longer-term, I’d like to see the site grow into a place where people can come to help them find the resources that they need to make […]