Category: Campervan Life
Life on the road in a Giottiline Giottivan. Kit, gadgets, trips and honest gear reviews for campervan owners.
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The Place I Nearly Did Not Tell You About: Bod Petryal, Clocaenog Forest
Bod Petryal is a free car park, a lake and three waymarked trails in Clocaenog Forest, forty minutes from Buckley and fifty from Chester. I had never heard of it. Here is…
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The Moelfre to Lligwy Coastal Walk, and Why All Those Ships Are Parked Offshore
Five and a quarter miles of the Anglesey Coastal Path from Nant Bychan Farm to Lligwy beach, with the Royal Charter, a seal colony, a fleet of anchored ships and a very…
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Nant Bychan Farm: My Favourite Campsite on the Anglesey Coast
No affiliate links in this one. Nobody’s paying me to say any of this, and Ieuan has no idea I’m writing it. It’s 3am and I’m on a marine parts website in…
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How We’re Going to Score Dog-Friendly Campsites From Now On
It is 3am and I have four browser tabs open comparing how different websites decide what counts as a “dog-friendly” campsite. The honest answer, after an hour of digging, is that mostly…
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Lake Vyrnwy: The Welsh Reservoir With a Drowned Village Underneath It
No affiliate links in this one. Just a stop on the way home. It is 3am, a few nights after we got back, and I am reading about a Victorian water company…
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Henstent Park: The Most Dog-Friendly Campsite We’ve Found
Henstent Park in the Tanat Valley, Powys: the most dog-friendly campsite we’ve stayed at. Riverside pitch, off-lead field, dog-friendly pub and cafe nearby.
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Ten Miles From Chester and We Still Don’t Go Enough: Revisiting a Riverside Walk We’d Let Slide
There are no affiliate links in this post and nothing in it is sponsored. The link to my Hoka sandal review is just a link to something else I have written. Nobody…
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The Camping Chair That Finally Stopped My Head Hanging Off the Back of Every Chair I Own
I was awake at 3am rubbing the back of my neck, which is what happens after four evenings sat in a chair that was never built for someone 6ft 2. We’d had…
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Six North Wales Campervan Sites, Reviewed Honestly (One I’d Never Repeat)
Six honest North Wales campervan stops, chosen close to home because diesel is brutal. The clean sites, the cracking pubs, and the one with a sea view ruined by a motorway.
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Two Giottivan Quick Wins I Figured Out at 3am (So You Don’t Have To)
I have no commercial relationship with any company mentioned in this post. Both products were bought with my own money after my own 3am research sessions. These are two Giottivan quick wins…