I live in Belgium, i've been recently pointed out to this forum.
One of my passions is obviously Splitty's but travelling in it is what i like the most and we're looking into doing a travel around the world with the highroof in a few years and so hopefully we can do Australia as well..
As for now here's my latest trip from last year which i think you'll like considering we all like pics on holliday..
This year we're looking in travelling to Morocco or the Eastern bit of Europe..
Anyway here's the story..
3 months long we worked like crazy to prepare the bus and it was ready just the day before we left..
With an insecure feeling we left southwards.. why, because the bus had not done many miles since I had the bus ( it had also been stored for 30 years), I had done 95% of the work myself and there were a few leaks.
Anyway heavily loaded we left on Friday the 13th :-S at 5pm for 3 weeks.
I quickly reaslised that the bus and I had to get to know each other and like all experienced bus drivers know they have a soul and so later on during our holiday I could feel when she had good days and bad.
It’s Saturday 5pm after u full day drive and 1100km further we finally arrived on a campsite in Capbreton to pickup my daughter who was staying with her Mum on a surf camp .
The next day we took off to Bidart at a campsite named Oyam were we stayed for a week, at first we were happy we found this campsite as due to their national holiday (15th) all campsites where packed! It’s when we moved out of the campsite we got presented a bill at a 43€/day rate where I got really pissed off, specially knowing it was just a regular 3 star camping with nothing special and a stinking sanitair !!
After we dropped off Sam in Capbreton we headed a little bit back up north for a local show in Soustons, once we paid and arrived on the field we realised this was not our cup of tea, the location was great (at a lake) but the combination of their 25th show and the amazing weather made it to a completely packed field, we didn’t find a spot and at some point ended on a dead end, the road was very bumpy and driving backwards wasn’t a possibility so I took a right in the grass between a few busses and some tents and all of a sudden it goes .. BANG.. I tried first gear but no movement I tried reverse but with no result.. Luckelly the van was popular and so a few Spanish people came up and after a few Chinese hand signals the guys lifted the van up front and I moved backwards.
Apparently it was the leftover from a sawn tree that was hidden in the grass.. after a few mins later and no result for a spot we just had it turned around and left! Later on I checked the underneath and noticed I got some serious chassis damage that didn’t make me happy..
Anyway from there on we decided to go back south and drove past San Sebastian were we spent the night on a parking. The next day we got up started driving further south and swapped Spain for Portugal
It’s not untill 11pm before we stopped in Belmonte Portugal after a frick’n hot day driving, at some points so hot that I had to shut the safari’s as it felt like a hairdryer blowing in my face..
Through “Dombutlerâ€
.. trip of a lifetime mate. welcome here ANYTIME 
