Four hubs, and a short route into each. If you are new here, this page is the map.
Everything on this site comes from a van we run ourselves. Where we quote a number, it is one we measured. Where we have not measured it, we say so. Our testing policy sets out the rules we hold ourselves to.
If you are sorting out power
Start with campervan electrical systems explained. It covers the two separate circuits in your van, why the numbers on your control panel never seem to agree, how to size a battery bank from an actual power budget rather than a guess, and where the money is best spent.
The short version: work out your daily watt-hours first, then buy. Plenty of people do it the other way round and end up with a system that dies on day three.
If you are taking a van to a festival
Taking a campervan to a UK festival covers live-in vehicle passes, what the fields are actually like, and the arithmetic for five days off grid with no hookup and no generator, because generators are banned nearly everywhere.
Book the pass early. Campervan fields are small and they sell out before general admission does.
If you are driving to Europe
Driving a UK van in Europe is the documents, the mandatory kit, the emissions stickers and the motorway vignettes, with current prices and the fast options for when you have not left yourself two weeks.
The one that catches people out: fines arrive months later, by camera, from a city you were only driving through.
If you want to know what we use
The kit list is what is fitted to and carried in the van. It is deliberately short, because nothing goes on it until we have run it long enough to have an opinion worth having. It grows as things get tested, and it has a permanent section for things we regret buying.
The four hubs
- Van Gear is batteries, solar, wiring and internet
- Festivals is passes, fields, and going off grid
- Trips is routes and the paperwork to drive them
- Reviews is kit we own and have used properly
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