While we're safe at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I thought I'd do a round up of some of the upgrades Tommy has been doing on Bodhi over the last few weeks.
Tommy loves to play about with photos, tweaking colours and adding extra elements. As we're at home just now due to Covid-19, I thought I'd put my favourites in a blog post - there's everything here from Hymers to Tornado Twins to Boris, our VW Beetle, and landscapes too!
It's half term up here in Scotland and usually we would be packing up the bus in anticipation of another trip away. Previous February holidays have included trips to Melrose, Perth and Iceland (although admittedly we took a plane for that last one). This year, however, we're staying at home for two reasons. The first is that my sister and her family are coming to stay. The second is that the weather is looking a bit like this...
It's been a while since I've given an update in how we're getting on with our new motorhome Bodhi. It's safe to say we utterly adore him and wouldn't change him for anything.
When we sold Hans, the carbon monoxide alarm, fire extinguisher and fire blanket we had installed went with him. For me, it gave peace of mind to know that his new family were in the safest environment possible.
So one of the first things we had to do was replace these items when Bodhi arrived. Earlier this year, at the Hymerchill meet in Ullswater, Tommy and I were invited into an S670 Mercedes Hymer. We instantly fell in love with the layout and the feeling of space inside. Hans has always been amazing and has given us some fantastic trips, but he was beginning to feel a little cramped for us. The girls are getting bigger and the dinette layout wasn't suiting us so well.
Initially, we made a few half hearted attempts at looking, but were put off by the fact that Hans was such a great beast. Apart from the usual servicing, he had needed almost no work at all. Mechanically and habitation wise, he was reliable and steady and that was very hard to ignore. So we decided to stick with Hans and carried on as planned, enjoying trips away in the spring and our brilliant summer tour. Then last Friday, we received a message from Chris at Ikonic Kampers. We bought Hans from Chris, and Tommy had asked him to keep an eye out for any S670s that he came across. He had seen one for sale in Bristol on Gumtree and wondered if we were interested. We had a look but quickly dismissed it - Bristol is a long way from Loch Lomond and the chances of us getting down there before it was sold were slim. Then a friend of ours in the area - Jon from the Classic Hymers group - offered to have a look. Suddenly things were happening. A viewing was arranged for Monday and flights and bank loans were looked into. Our quiet weekend was suddenly full of excitement and nerves. Tommy and I wavered back and forwards about whether it was the right thing to do. Is it madness to walk away from a good working vehicle to a complete unknown? Slowly but surely, the campsites are getting booked. Our map is looking a little something like this:
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