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Long reads about motorhome life, trip recaps, kit reviews, and the occasional rant.
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Ask Steve →- 02AUG'26Featured
They Made Us Change Our Plans: Porto, Sardines, and Why We're Basically Moving to Portugal
There are trips where everything goes to plan, and then there are trips like this one.
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- 26JUL'26
We've Split Up and Gone Separate Ways: Spain and Portugal Here We Come
George's passport didn't arrive in time for the ferry. That's the long and short of it.
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- 22JUL'26
Will We Make It? Passport Drama, New Air Con, and a Very Stressful Saturday
This genuinely was not the video we planned to make. The plan was simple: finish the last bits on the van, pack up, and head off to Europe for the summer.
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- 19JUL'26
Someone Tried to Break Into Our Van (But We're Not Letting It Ruin Anything)
We arrived at Dummer Down Farm for a little shakedown before the summer Europe trip, parked up with around ten other vans, and the first thing I noticed when I went to get the
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- 12JUL'26
Van Love 2026 at Thruxton: What Really Happened
Van Love 2026 was the fourth time this event has run, but the first time it's been held at Thruxton Race Circuit rather than Elvington Airfield.
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- 05JUL'26
Camping Dangerously Close in Europe: Cologne, Bruges & the World Cup
Steve and Harry chase the World Cup from Amsterdam to Cologne and Bruges, catching up with an old friend and living through the tightest park-up of the trip.
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- 28JUN'26
Amsterdam With Harry: Football Shirts, Free Ferries, and 20,000 Steps a Day
Steve and Harry spend two days walking Amsterdam end to end, from free ferries and football shirt shops to a full English cooked outside the van.
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- 21JUN'26
Father and Son Road Trip: Antwerp and Rotterdam (With a Side of Delays)
Steve and Harry set off on a father-son road trip to Europe, and a Eurotunnel delay is just the start: a new friend in Antwerp and a soaking wet day in Rotterdam.
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- 14JUN'26
Swift Kon-Tiki 874 vs Dethleffs XL Family: A Proper Head-to-Head
We park our old Swift Kon-Tiki 874 next to our new Dethleffs XL Family for a proper head to head, and find out what its new owners have upgraded since we sold it.
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- 07JUN'26
Vanlife Festival 2026: Camping with Our Old Kon-Tiki
An emotional reunion with our old Kon-Tiki, the Bluetti Elite 300 on test, and a wine tasting that made Sunday morning slightly harder than planned.
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- 31MAY'26
Big Changes for the Roaming Radfords (New Website, Ask Steve, and Summer Merch!)
Eddie's new Roaming Radfords website goes live, with an AI-powered Ask Steve, an updated map, and the summer 2026 merch drop.
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- 24MAY'26
A Diesel Heater, a 1950 MG, and a Very Cold Night on the Welsh Border
Steve gets a diesel heater fitted at Autoterm in North Wales, survives a solo night at 3 degrees, and takes a spin in a 1950 MG with suicide doors.
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- 04JUN'21summer 2020 road trip
Tips for buying your first motorhome
Fifteen years in, here's what we wish someone had told us at the dealership the first time round. Layouts, hookups, payload, and the questions you forget to ask.
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