Living in a Van in Brighton
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never lived in a van for a long time, but once spent 6 weeks living in a Morris 1000 ex GPO van in France, we'd given up our rented flat so had no particular expenses except food & petrol which our savings covered. It all came to an abrupt end when a French motorist crashed in to us and the van was a write off. Spent 3 days hitch hiking back to Calais with our possessions tied up in carrier bags.
Have also had many holidays in a Ford Escort van, then upgraded to a camper van. The downsides - people banging on the sides at 2am because they think it's funny, running out of gas and waking up to frozen bottles of water inside the van, getting dipped for red diesel.
Met many retired people in campsites who've sold their house and bought a motorcaravan and spend the years travelling around from site to site as they fancy. I guess the rent on campsites would be £70 a week with fabulous views and lots of new people to meet.
We have too many cats to do that but maybe one day ...:)0 -
The campsites around Brtighton are a lot more expensive than that....£20-25 a night. Great memories for you though!0
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good on you both and good luck for the future0
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Well I for one wish you luck. I've read your Blog from start to finish and enjoyed it. Ignore the others who have been so dismissive and wrongly assumed you're both jobless bums, I think it's great what you're doing.
I think i've missed what you intend doing during the winter?
Thanks for that. we are planning to go to India in the winter...it is very cheap and I can stiull work there.0 -
As a good friend of Laura and Reg (who are lovely by they way) I have been really shocked at some of the responses on here....presuming you don't work even though you had written you do...presuming you're both arrogant, pompous.......calling you a middle class nob!!!!! Nice way to address a lovely lady like Laura, think someone may need to re-read the forum groundrules!! Although I did have to laugh with the one who even started to presume what you and Reg would talk about in private and then the impression you would give off in body language.....jeez!!!....Ah well I think what you're doing is great, you're brave to experiment like this and there's certainly nothing wrong with trying to gain some benefits from it.....eating well, going to the gym, trip to India, who wouldn't?0
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The very best of luck to you. And if you ever bring the van back to it's hometown, a battery charge & hot bath are just a few miles away for you
DTD...Dreading The Detox.0 -
I'd be living in a campervan by now if I'd been able to find one I could afford, but they were too pricey for me (needed a decent/reliable one as I'm not handy and I'd be travelling alone), but I intended to live on proper camp sites... not on the road, where anybody and his drunken mates could decide "wouldn't it be funny if...." when they staggered past at 2am.0
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Just read ur blog ur life sounds great, good luck to you both, I hope all goes well0
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Brooker_Dave wrote: »What happens if you want to have a poo?
Does the van have a loo?
We do have a loo but we try not to use it wherever possible....it's a cassette toilet so we just empty it on a campsite (not in friends' toilets haha). But we try to use public toilets wherever possible and use the gym in the mornings!0
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