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Amperor is not an especially well known name in the UK, but I have a feeling that might be gradually changing. A Taiwanese multinational company with a 22 year history of producing power supplies for hi-tech companies, it is now moving into directly retailing own-branded products to western … [Read more...]
This is the Volkswagen Bulli, a concept vehicle currently being shown by VW at the Geneva Motor Show: It is designed to be a spiritual successor to the original Samba bus - albeit a rather shorter one, at just under 4m in length. The concept is an electric vehicle with an impressive quoted … [Read more...]
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have been in use in electronic equipment for decades. They are available in a wide variety of colours and the power lights on your television, stereo and computer equipment will almost certainly be LEDs. The last few years have seen LED lights become much more popular … [Read more...]
The final and postponed part of our 2010 tour of Scotland was a visit to the Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles. We had missed vising these islands in the summer as we couldn't get onto a ferry - but judging from local reports of the weather over the summer, this was a blessing in disguise. Our first … [Read more...]
The plan for our latest motorhome trip was to travel around Scotland in an anticlockwise fashion, from east to west. We also extended the trip via several (8, in total!) ferries to explore the northern islands - both Orkney and Shetland. We visited the Scottish Borders briefly last autumn (click … [Read more...]
Wild camping (also known as free camping) is an evergreen topic of debate in the motorhome community - some are in favour, some are almost religiously against it, saying that it is anti-social and gives us all a bad name. I'm broadly in favour, within reason. You sometimes get to park overnight … [Read more...]
I am always on the look out for motorhomes and campervans that are a little bit different, so when an email from the owners of this imposing specimen dropped into my inbox recently, I was extremely pleased. The Gray Warrior is owned by Graham and Jean, two retired former caravanning … [Read more...]
Itchy feet got the better of us recently and we packed up the motorhome for a long weekend in Northumberland (click here to view a map of our route). Saturday lunchtime saw us arriving at the mainland end of the causeway to Lindisfarne Island (Holy Island). It's only five minutes from the A1, … [Read more...]
Demountable motorhomes are not a new concept - and neither are fifth wheel trailers. However, they are usually on the large side and definitely don't look like this: This is the Colim - a kind of cross between a fifth wheel caravan, a demountable motorhome and a normal caravan and car … [Read more...]
It's not often that I come across a motorhome completely different to any I've seen before - but this one is. Built by three Japanese schoolfriends for a one-year road trip around Japan, it took two years to create and really is unique. The second floor is a Japanese-style room - it has a full … [Read more...]
