The National Outdoor Expo 2024 - NEC 

It would be nice to win something. We definitely dropped lucky winning the trip to San Marino a few years ago. xx

Hiya Billy. It was good but not as large as the motorhome shows. There was a lot of SUP stuff which you would have liked. There was paddleboarding on the lake outside and swimming but we didn't get to that as we ran out of time. We thought there would be more bushcraft stuff but we were quite disappointed with what was there. If you ever go to the NEC and parking costs extra then we recommend parking and going in by train. It cost £6.00 return for both of us and was only a three minute journey. The train goes right the the NEC. The coffee company were really good. A new company based in North Wales. Brilliant but of kit for campers and van owners. He chuckled when I said it would suit him. Will try to see you soon. We are at the caravan for Easter in the Peaks if you are around and fancy something to eat with us.....or a barbie if the weather is decent. Let us know. Would be good to see you both.

Hi Daryl / keith. Forgot to mention that expresso machine, that looks good. Thanks for the train advice, but were would we park ? We are booked in on york racecourse for this easter weekend but thankyou so much for the invite ❤. 😁

The station has a large car park and free. The station is Hampton In Arden

@@CampervanTales thanks daryl/keith 😊

Ah Micky. Two videos from us? Standby......another video is coming in the next few hours.😀 The Grenadier started at £66,000. Much cheaper that a Pretender Defender from Landrover. You can't beat the old Defenders. Even the later model old style Defenders crumpled like paper in a collision. We reversed in to a friends later model old style a few years ago and we did no damage to ours but £3000 worth of damage to theirs as all the front end caved in. We were only doing 10 miles an hour, if that. We have spent the day doing five minute jobs at home and celebrating the fact that my eldest son has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend. Off to the static caravan at the weekend for Easter. Most months up to Christmas are now planned with trips away in one form or another. I'm sure Keith would be up for climbing but not me. I really enjoy abseiling but not going the other way. Have a good week and watch out for our next sh***y video💩

@@CampervanTales £66,000.00 isn’t too bad. Still waaaay out of my price range. Here in Bozeman, we’ve got quite a few multi-millionaires as well as straight up billionaires because of a billionaires exclusive club in Big Sky called the Yellowstone Club. It attracts the ultra rich from all over the world. What that has done is drawn the less ultra rich to Bozeman where they buy up second or third homes and condos for high six and seven figure prices, since they can’t afford the Yellowstone Club. They also brought their Land Rovers and Range Rovers. They are everywhere. That and Mercedes G Wagons. Bozeman sells more high end Audi cars and suv’s than anywhere else in the U.S.. The ultra rich and the just plain rich have essentially ruined our town. Our median price for homes has surpassed Seattle’s median price recently. Seattle being one of the more expensive places in the U.S.. But they have industry and high paying jobs. Bozeman has no real high paying industry jobs. So it has become the playground for the rich and famous. Us poor dirtbag slackers are hanging on by a thread here. But Nicole and I are determined to make it work for us here. At least, for now. Looking forward to more videos! Cheers!

Thanks Irene. It was crowded and at the end we were glad to get out of there. The @GoPresso is a good bit of kit. Either for walkers or van owners. So quick and easy to use anywhere. Harvey Maps have been around for a while. Jacob uses them much more than OS when he is leading groups.

Lol. They had coffee there,we had to go lol. We didn't check out the footwear. There was ao much to see that we only skirted it. There was paddleboarding and cold water swimming stuff out on the lake that we hoped to see but we needed to get home.

@@CampervanTales Not interested in skirts dear!

@@tomcat7525 lol. Mot even kilts

We are wary of electric bikes. The scooters are as bad. They go racing al9ng the pavement outside our house and we have to creep out in case on side swipes us. The new look Defender is actually made by a company called Ineos and isn't anything to do with Landrover. It looks really good. Whereas the new Landrover Defender doesn't look capable of going off road. More of a Chelsea Tractor as we say over here. Sadly British Rail no longer exists and rail services are privatised. It is very expensive to travel any distance. We used to go to London a lot but now fares are extortionate. For a return ticket off peak time would cost us nearly £250 return for both of us!