A Simply Fab LifeA bit of Dutch, a lot of South African and now some French flavour as well... Marcel enjoys trying to get it all on video and tinkering with our Land Rover in between discovering a new destination somewhere... Some sailing, an appreciation for the nostalgia of older vehicles, and creating a smaller footprint rounds it all off. Oh and always time for an ice-cold beer...
Overlord Museum American Cemetery Underwater Wrecks Port en Bessin The coastline from Caen to Barfleur is a must-see destination with dozens of museums scattered about the countryside, each…
Omaha D-Day Museum Overlord Museum American Cemetery Underwater Wrecks The call of the beer is strong. Time for a refreshment – me thinks! We headed straight for the…
Omaha D-Day Museum Overlord Museum Underwater Wrecks Port en Bessin From a fittingly moody, overcast and rainy backdrop rise two impressively tall flag masts before a lily pond…
Omaha D-Day Museum Overlord Museum American Cemetery Port en Bessin We visited this one in 2008 and were very impressed with the exhibits, notably the abundance of sea…
For those with a keen interest in World War Two and the D DAY landings, in particular, I can recommend spending a week in this area of the French coast.
“Loving a Land Rover” we appreciate the Landy community and have made loads of diy-repair videos, walkarounds and of course our extreme 4×4 adventures
The Three Sense to pack into your luggage: a sense of humour, a sense of adventure and common sense! Armed with that Africa is a fantastic experience!
The whole campsite, in its entirety, is not much more than the size of our single pitch in Savute Camp in Chobe. I think that there is room for about five or six vehicles here, but we share the space with just one other 4×4.
Departing from the dock at the splendid Chobe River Lodge this three hour cruise takes us out into the very wide Chobe River, along the border with Namibia and around Sedudu Island.
The clue is in the name. But you only realise it when you get there. There is a herd of elephants gathered around a waterhole. And a lot of sand. Oh, and no fences… At all!
Having spent a lovely night in the Savute Camp, being camped on one of only four enormous pitches along the Savute ‘river canal’ (which was dry at this time) we now head further north to Kasane.
The first time I heard of Chobe was as a kid a long time ago. It had the same status as Serengeti or Etosha for me. An unreachable destination somewhere in central Africa.
Chobe, Etosha, Okavango, Kruger, Serengeti – we have all heard of them at some point in our lives. They all have a certain mystique about them, a celebrity status, if you will. I think Moremi belongs on that list as well…
After an hour of appreciating the countryside at a sedate 80 km/h, and at roughly 150 km from Maun, we saw a vehicle off the road against the game fence, bonnet up and a guy lying under the vehicle…
Maun is a strange place. But in a good way. It is both a small town and a big ‘hub’ for the game park tourism industry. It has two faces…
You slowly become aware of a stillness, a complete silence, an emptiness. A calmness that competes with, yet adds to, the bluest of skies, as wide as you’ve ever seen. It, sort of, sneaks up on you and becomes more pervasive.
Monaco is always an experience, one way or another… This time it was for a delivery of Mirabeau wine for the twentieth Monaco Yacht Show
Since learning about the Eden Project in Cornwall, Vic has been super excited to see how they rewilded an old quarry into beautiful fertile gardens
Land’s End is worth a visit as the furthest west you can be in Cornwall; land of tall hedgerows, rolling hills, countless farms, tractors, not much else
Land Rover owners love their Defenders because they’re fun, adventurous, roll in the corners – you take your time going places, with a big grin on your face
An exhilarating day on the track track trying to get the car floating around the corners.
It’s warm in here… no, actually, it’s hot! Like a mini-sauna, but it’s dark and instead of wood; it smells of fresh canvas. I kick off the sleeping…
It’s hard to describe the feeling out there in the mud: Awesome or mind-blowing doesn’t quite do it justice. You’re out on the track in the middle of a forest all day long and YOU need to drag the car back to camp!
Adventure and Extreme Classes took two different tracks.
F1 in mud! A chance to drive as fast as you can/like!! Mad power and flat out along a challenging circuit, tyre change, floor it! Great fun!
Pitch black, narrow twig-lined tunnels. Branches thwacking off the windscreen. Ducking in the car to avoid getting whipped. No bearings whatsoever
The show-start in the town of Glina in remote Croatia gives the competitiors a chance to meet the locals and show off their machines…
Picture it, day 10 of a tough two weeks in Egypt: tanning, swimming, eating far too much at the buffet, another beer, more sun, more tanning, more swimming… how much of this can you take??!! Time for a snorkel off the coast…
What did you do on your 40th birthday? I rode a camel in the shade of the pyramids in Cairo! As you do….
We manage to get the front seat of a twenty-seater and settle in for the three-and-a-half hour journey to Samaná – where the humpback whales are.
Welcome to Samaná Bay! To the left you will see fishermen with their small canoes and dug-outs. Fixing nets and clearing boats for another day on the water… Ahead you will see a mass of people crowding the end of the pier.
The roadtrip plan was simple – we wanted to see as much of the coastline of South Africa as possible, as we were emigrating to Europe