One way to make things difficult for yourself is to use a UK postcode to find a park-up in a rural location, then try to drive there in a 24-tonne truck.
Tag Archives: Overland adventures
Volvo Means ‘I Roll’: Moving Into An Expedition Rig
Finally, after a coronavirus lockdown that saw Mark and I trapped ‘in the brick’ for eight months, we are back on the road in The Beast, our new Volvo N10 expedition truck. The conversion went entirely to plan. In fact, we finished the work early, which allowed us a couple of weeks to test allContinue reading “Volvo Means ‘I Roll’: Moving Into An Expedition Rig”
Building The Beast: Expedition Truck Conversion Stage 1 – Insulation
Everyone knows Miles. On our way to Romania, we stopped at a campsite in rural Hungary. The owner was British. He knew Miles. One evening, as we were watching Ben Fogle’s documentary Harbour Lives on TV, Miles popped up on our screen. It came as no surprise. The first part of this post is theContinue reading “Building The Beast: Expedition Truck Conversion Stage 1 – Insulation”
Collecting the Beast, Our New Expedition Truck: Part 2 – Rotterdam to Bournemouth
Tuesday: Rotterdam – Calais (By Accident) Mark was in Rotterdam. This was following THE most ill-fated, 26-hour overland journey from high in the Italian Alps to The Low Countries to collect The Beast, a 30-year old ex-army truck that is to become our new, all-terrain mobile home. Lady Luck had already made it clear thatContinue reading “Collecting the Beast, Our New Expedition Truck: Part 2 – Rotterdam to Bournemouth”
World Wide Walkies 