Category Archive for: Road trips

A Wild Camp On Dartmoor

A Wild Camp on Dartmoor, the musings of V after her first ever wild camping experience. “Shall we go somewhere in the van this weekend?” Images flit across my mind of jam packed campsites, queues for the showers, overflowing bins and the inevitable tedious, twice-as-long journey back on Sunday’s motorways. “Let’s just go for the…

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Campervan Cookout goes Wild Camping

Hello, it is I, Cookout Klaws head of the website, this week Campervan Cookout goes wild camping. This week I took time out from tasting food to take my mascots humans on an amazing adventure, wild camping on Dartmoor. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love the outdoors. We also a few other…

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Exmoor and a week in Croyde in a VW 1985 T25 Video

At the end of August we took a week off and decided to head out in my t25 camper, Cookie. Priscilla sadly is being repaired after being stolen and crashed, news on the repairs soon. Here is a little video, which shows the morning after our wild camp (well it’s not really camping is it…

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Holiday Part 3 – Jurassic Coast Video

Here is a little video of the back end of our tour. I really was so chilled out I forgot to film anything until later in the holiday. Hopefully this captures the vibe of our holiday. We did see a few more campsites in our journey so I thought I would mention them too. Monkton…

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Holiday part 2

Glastonbury, Paddington Farm First of all a few images from our time at Paddington farm and a walk up to Glastonbury Tor. All shot on a Sony Compact camera but with no means to upload them I couldn’t share until now. I would like to take a moment to recommend Paddington Farm campsite, ran as…

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Holiday time

Paddington Farm Trust, Glastonbury Day 1 of the holiday we have headed south from Warwickshire via the a46 and then down the m5 to Glastonbury. We’ve stopped off at the Paddington Farm camp site. We headed out for a walk out at sunset to build a good appetite. The site is fascinating, and has all…

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British Camp 2 and Warwick by the river

As you may have read in my other Malvern post, I didn’t have much luck last time I went there. I had heard such wonderful stories of the views from British camp so at the first sign of sun Vanessa and I decided to pack a bag and head out in her van Priscilla. Luckily…

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Club 80-90 T25 camping meet

I wager if you are a VW t25 enthusiast you will already know about the Club 80-90 website and forum. A great resource where like minded enthusiastic individuals meet online to discuss everything Wedge related. One thing I have found with T25 / T3 owner is that its all about using the van, not necessarily…

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Mind your head at the Malvern Hills

My van is in the garage at present being welded for her MOT, it is safe to say I’ve missed the slow paced antics a VW camper brings and I can’t wait to get her back. That means no blog posts, absolutely nothing to write about. This got me thinking back to my first trip out…

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Wasdale Roadtrip: VW T25 Campervan in the Snow

Back in March we drove up to one of my favourite places, the Lake District, more specifically Wasdale. We left Warwickshire on the Thursday night, and we did notice the winds were starting to get up. As any t25 owner will know, they aren’t the most aerodynamic vehicles in the world. I always liken it…

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