Oddcouple

Day 3, short hop to Applecross. Only one campsite here, again very clean, waste disposal points, water fill up at drive by hose. Fantastic views with an option for electric. We’ve gone without hookup again, using solar which is just running the fridge and lights. £27 a night without hookup (price a little higher than others, no competition nearby). came over the Applecross Pass, great fun, visibility at about 20m as we were in the clouds which makes hairpin bends a surprise.

Looking like rain tomorrow, no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choice!

Day 2 completed. Now at Reraig campsite about 5 miles from the Skye bridge. This will be our start point. Nice campsite, clean facilities, lovely hot showers, £20 a night for non electric pitch. Good clean drive today, behind a silver alphie hybrid (tribrid) for a couple of hours, followed them on to Skye.

Tomorrow is 330 miles to the start point, via Tesco in Perth to fill up, super is a little sparse in the highlands so have planned all fuel stops on route.

So, a little thread which we will try to update should anyone want to follow. Set off today from Hampshire, 280 miles to our first stop which is the campsite at Tebay services on the M6. Bit of a strange stop off, but ideal to break the journey. £24 for the night with hook up. Decent facilities in the services and nice clean showers and toilets in the campsite. Also chemical disposal here and pretty much no road noise seeing as we’re next to the M6!

It should be fine, I have a wee bit each side, just used the storm straps on each end to stabilise it and keep it tight.

We have planned and booked sites on the way round, also planned fuel stops as super unleaded is not that easy to get! Will update on all the sites we use, probably set up a thread in General Chat if anyone wants to follow our wee road trip.

Vango Airbeam sky canopy 2.5, also available as a 3.5…

We could do a wee journal I guess..

We are away next week to do the NC500, just short stops so didn’t want to take the full awning so grabbed this to give us a bit of shelter.

Same as, great fit and so easy to put up..

I’ll ping you a DM…

A bit late to the party with this so I hope you have it resolved, here is what I have..

MOT yesterday, passed with one advisory, going to need discs and pads all round soon. The garage can’t supply so went online to find a minefield of parts. Any advice on best place to buy? Also if someone had part numbers that would be fantastic. 2010 3.5 280bhp 4wd vellfire. All help gratefully received!

Of course. The basic internal conversion including kitchen/bed/swivel seat/fridge etc 9.4k. A bit more if you need pop top done. We also went solar and had a tow bar stuck on. Couldn’t be happier with the result.

Why thank you kind Sir..

They really do, and couldn’t be more helpful. We are very pleased with the results!

Just thought I’d share the result of Northstar intervention on our Vellfire! Cannot tell you how happy we are… ADDC6540-C513-47BA-AD9F-39B9FA2A3AC3.MOV

And there we have it. One thing l learned in my 26 year military career was respect. In my current career role I work on a government project and I lecture in many things, quite a lot based around mental health and dealing with passive aggressives and the impact of perceptual bullying. It has been an absolute pleasure dealing with 99% of the good folk on here. And you have no idea how happy I am now that I have made Rojie happy, it’s been a struggle, but we got there! I know what you’re thinking, you thought I’d left😆, I did, my wife was unaware and tends to pop in and out of here, she was just a little upset why we were so disliked on the forum (her perception, which she is entitled to), so I thought I’d just pop in for a final farewell. Thank you to those who put nice comments on here and thank you to all those who helped without talking down to us. Pretty sure I’ll be seeing some of you in the future, is someone waves at you with a look of expectant excitement, it’s probably us!

Can’t seem to find a way to leave the forum, which if this is the case leaves a distinctly dubious amount of members on here😂 time for me to go now, I’ve tried to help those I could, and I’ve made my feelings clear to a few I’ve chatted with. Wishing you all the best as a club and really hope this evolves into something special. Drive safe folks!