What poptop do you have looks great very slim, thinking about one for my shuttle
Thanks
Paul
Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?
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Paul
Looks like a Hilo to me.
Hilo went bust. VisionTech bought the design rights and released the Horizon roof - son of Hilo, if you like. Expensive, but a great product if you can live with the compromises.
FYI, I have a Hilo.
Do you drive in the race? Or have the more important job of pit crew, welfare, transport, finance etc?
At the cyclocross today. 4Motion drove it off the soft grass effortlessly, which is more than can be said for my first race of the season legs.
Hell no I don’t drive the race car - way too old. My best mate Mike is the wheel. I am the team manager running our team of 4 mates. It is fantastic fun and I love the fact our car is old and still smokes the bigger teams. Off to Nürburgring on Thursday
Silo art at Hay, New South Wales. Oz.
It really does!
Now set up on our favourite pitch at Camping Azurro Campagnola Lake Garda, a great spot to watch the lights day or night 
Now hoping that after 2 years a broken leg, a hip replacement what’s left of my left hip will last long enough for a few days on my windsurf board. But if not will just have to enjoy a few beers glasses of red, grappa……..
Now hoping that after 2 years a broken leg, a hip replacement what’s left of my left hip will last long enough for a few days on my windsurf board. But if not will just have to enjoy a few beers glasses of red, grappa……..
@Vanderlust. I know deep down that it's a very nice site but I've not got such happy memories of it myself (and a mate of mine has even worse). I tented there with said mate for a night back in 2010 (we were on our way to Dubai by road). Around 0100hrs, it absolutely tipped it down to the extent that I thought the water on the pitch might even get above the groundsheet wall which it didn't thanks to my lifelong fixation with never skimping when it comes to camping kit. In the end, I stayed dry but my mate had a cheap tent of his own and he wound up kipping in the car land eaving everything in his tent soaking wet. That was another night when the XL fabric conditioner bottle came in handy as you deffo didn't want to have to make a dash for the bogs.
The weather in the Alps can change very quickly, last year on Bastille day, staying near Alpe d'Huez, we had a thunderstorm that resulted in this...
Quite a bit of damage resulted to tents, car windscreens, etc.
Quite a bit of damage resulted to tents, car windscreens, etc.
Its a HiLo/Horizon roof. Check out here to find a fitter Horizon Poptop Roofs | PopTops for Campervan Conversions | United Kingdom
Ours is a shuttle too, send me a message if you want to chat about it
@Ayjay We have been visiting this site since 2004 although not every year til we were retired so our paths may have crossed. Yes the weather can get a bit extreme here. In 2017 here with the caravan and the temperature touching 40 C when it all broke down with what a meteorologist would call a mesoscale convective system I called it a feking huge thunderstorm. The blackness coming up the lake gave us about 10 mins to batten down the hatches before the gust front hit taking the winds from zero to ferocious in seconds. I heard voices from the next pitch where a young Austrian couple had borrowed their in laws very expensive looking Carthago motor home. Went round and found them hanging onto an awning leg each the lady was being lifted off her feet. Grabbed one leg to allow the guy to wind the awning back in. On way back to my pitch saw that the 2 Swiss guys tent on the pitch above ours had been shredded. They had left earlier to visit Torbole and the rain was now absolutely teeming down. All I could do was scoop their belongings under what was left of their tent and shove their boards on top to stop it blowing away. Back to my pitch only to see on the terrace below someone had decided to secure their rigged sail by wedging the very top between the railings and a small shrub. The thing was about to take off so grabbed a piece of rope and lashed the boom to the railings. Ran back to my pitch now absolutely soaked and in another 10 minutes the wind reversed and eased as the storm passed overhead. Only lasted 30 minutes but fallen trees and a landslide blocked the road. The sailing boat moored opposite the campsite had been dis masted and sadly a local fisherman was lost on the lake. The wind was measured at Beaufort 11 at Torbole.
However it’s an ill wind as they say and within 15 mins of the storm passing the expert windsurfers were all out ripping it up on the lake which was now a roiling tempest. Way above my level but I got some great photos.
However it’s an ill wind as they say and within 15 mins of the storm passing the expert windsurfers were all out ripping it up on the lake which was now a roiling tempest. Way above my level but I got some great photos.
Alnwick rugby club £20 per night .. ideal for a few nights
To the garage to fill the tank. Then I’ve been back and forward to it a lot today loading bikes inside and all the gear for 11 days in Scotland starting tomorrow, early I hope. We’ll be in Kenmore, near Aberfeldy, for 4 nights in accommodation then we’ve 7 nights to fill. We’ve not decided quite where we’ll go or what we’ll do. The weather and the midges (if they haven’t all died) will shape that part of the adventure. We’re really looking forward to a good break without any illness or other challenges.
Aye, just don't pitch-up around the 5m lines - all those scrums can create a mud-bath and you wouldn't want to get ya van stuck now, would ya?
