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Published: April 16th 2010
The Van
Need a better name - ideas on a postcard please!The inaugural overnight trip in the new campervan!
We are now the proud possessors of a Toyota Granvia Campervan. It's an 8 seater 'people mover' car imported from Japan which has been converted to our specifications by a chap in Kilmarnock (the highly recommended
Direct Campers if you're interested).
It's really smart, has a fridge, hob, sink, gas central heating, blacked out windows, double bed and pop up roof with further sleeping space. Daddy is of course 'pimping it out', it now has a private number plate and he's ordered some fiendish multimedia satnav/dvd/tv/cd/internet/teasmaid* beastie from China to stick in the dash. I've drawn the line at furry dice though!
Last weekend we took it to Cullen with our good friends, the Ds, and their all mod cons caravan. The weather was astonishing, like high summer, better in fact for this part of Scotland! The site was great, up on a west facing clifftop, just a short walk from an excellent fish and chip shop and an even better ice cream shop!
Daddy & Lugs are both into geocaching, which is kind of using a GPS to find hidden treasure (see
geocaching.com for more info), so there were
a couple of side trips to squirrel out geocaches. 4yr old H is a cracking geocache hound, albeit with a little nudge or two in the right direction from his Daddy!
Early Sunday morning, Daddy, Mummy & J struck out along the coast to find a particularly tricky one, although as you can see from the pic, Daddy made it look slightly trickier than it actually was! The cache itself was a tub with various bits of tat in, including bubbles which we sat and played with for a while, not much in the way of treasure, then Daddy found a fiver lying on the path, bit more like it!
We've still got a lot to learn about campervanning, such as 'a 4.5 tog duvet is not thick enough'! So yes, admittedly not the comfiest nights sleep I've ever had, I got pretty cold, and we'd forgotten to open the valve on the gas bottle so I had to get out of the van in my jammies to open the boot and do that before we could turn the heating on. J slept like a log, taking up so much of the bed that at one point I
climbed over him to get to the other side where there was more room! He and I were down below, Daddy up top. Daddy took the key to the toilet block to bed with him, so he got woken up too!
On the way home we stopped at a little harbour and made sausage sandwiches to eat in the sunshine! This is the life!
(* it doesn't actually make tea!)
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