Our Story
Two people, one van, and an endless horizon.
Three years ago, we sold our flat in Bristol, fitted out a 1996 Mercedes Sprinter we named Olive, and drove south until the motorways turned into mountain passes. We haven’t looked back since.
Caravan Blog started as a private journal — scribbled notes in a Moleskine at the back of the van while rain drummed on the roof. It grew into something bigger when friends and strangers started asking: how do you actually do this?
So we began writing properly. Not just the pretty sunsets and perfect wild-camping spots, but the broken alternator in rural Portugal, the three-day rainstorm in the Scottish Highlands where we questioned everything, and the morning we woke up beside a Norwegian fjord and knew — really knew — that this was the life we wanted.
What We Write About
This journal covers everything that makes the travelling life possible and beautiful: van conversions and gear that actually works, routes we’ve loved and places that surprised us, recipes cooked on a two-burner stove, and the quieter philosophy of choosing experiences over possessions.
We believe in slow travel — staying long enough to learn the baker’s name, to watch the light change through a whole day, to feel like you belong somewhere new. If that sounds like your kind of journey, you’re in the right place.