Cooking on the road – getting started
Food is more than fuel for us — it’s how we mark the day, explore a place, and keep a sense of home inside the van. A month in, we’ve found a rhythm that works for our nomadic kitchen. How…
Our Thid Life
Travelling, learning, living fully.
Vincent
Vincent is a sixty-something who has retired from working life but not from living. Had his childhood and working life, now embarking on his third life. Currently a full-time motorhome nomad, touring the UK, Europe and North Africa with his wife Pip and Black Labrador, Scylla.
Systems and technology – First month’s review
One month in feels like a good time to take stock. The romance of the road is one thing, but it’s the systems and the technology that make the difference between a dream and a headache. Some of what we…
Finding our rhythm – month one of nomad life
Three weeks on the road and the days are starting to find their shape. Not fixed, not forced, but familiar enough that wherever we wake up — harbour, farm shop, or site — we know how to begin. Morning rituals…
Scylla’s pet passport – a small document, a big milestone
Of all the moments in our first month on the road, none mattered more than a day trip to Ballymena. Not for sightseeing, but for paperwork. Scylla, our black Labrador, came home with her EU pet passport. The post-Brexit tangle…
Scylla’s view – Month one
Through the lens of Scylla, our pet Labrador, on tour with us Scylla’s takeNew smells everywhere. Circus tents, sandy beaches, roast dinners. Fields to run in. Gulls to watch. Biscuits to beg for. A cut paw slowed me down —…
Imagining the Iron Age: Strathcashell Point
If it wasn’t for the small plaque fixed on the site, you’d be forgiven for walking straight past. The Iron Age fort here is hardly a fort at all anymore — no towering walls, no ditches, no clear outline. Just…
Our first month on the road
Time Flies – Our First Month on the Road It seems only days ago we set off, yet here we are at the end of the first month. We left our home in South Leicestershire the day after my last…