Does your van have a ladder but no hitch to install a bike rack on? Read how to carry your bikes anyway and avoid putting them on the roof or inside your van by this 10 minutes DIY!
Bike-rack DIY for your campervan ladder
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Camper friendly multi functional bike for getting around with your baby or small child.
Here’s another post on how to travel with a baby / small child. We discovered this awesome bike with so many functionalities on the road! It’s a bike, it is a stroller, it’s a child table chair!
Automated gray water disposal system
This is definitely one of the more “nice-to-have” modifications of our van. However, the solution came out really neath with yet an another button to the dashboard!
Camping Lucherino
A small family friendly camping site with great atmosphere in beautiful surroundings. Good for exploring the South Tuscany such as Val’d Orcia
to the North (with the many wineries in eg. Montalcino) or the hot springs
Saturnia and Bagno S. Filippo to the South.
Camping Lou Labech at the coast of Languedoc, France
A great small family run camping site in walking distance from
Bouzigues center and close to Séte city.
Great atmosphere at Camping Sole Langhe
Stay in Piemonte near the touristy Barolo but away from the crowds! We found this great little campsite by coincidence driving past it but couldn’t resist to stay here a couple of days.
Talbot Express gutter improvement
The Talbot Express van is known for a troublesome gutter around the fiberglass top. The idea behind it is good I guess but people are reporting water ingress and rust as a result. Read how I improved the gutter design.
Read moreWindscreen rust repair
An often encountered problem with old cars and in particular the Talbot Express van (also go under Citroen C25 or Peugeot J5) is rust around the windscreen. This post describes how I treated the rust and postponed a bigger expensive workover.
Campervan-dalisme!
Yet again somebody felt an urge to graffiti our van! Read on how to remove
graffiti from both the car lacquer as well as the fiberglass top!
Mount a flexible solar panel without any screws!
Read how to mount a flexible solar panel on a bending fiberglass surface with glue or tape! The job is quite easy and the past 20.000 km on the road has proven that it holds.
