Mercedes 410D campervan with Spanish mountain sunset

The Hippy Bus Blog

Our blog is a place to find our vanlife tips and tricks, travel recommendations, and stories from life in our hippy bus. We hope these blogs make you smile, feel inspired, and provide a bit of an insight into what full-time travel and life on the road looks like.

Our Portuguese Homestead: Autumn
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Our Portuguese Homestead: Autumn

This autumn has been about clearing, burning, and building more infrastructure at our home in the trees. We’ve constructed a shower area, created pathways through the trees, and built a communal area with a bench, campfire, and mini log store.

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A New Chapter Begins
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A New Chapter Begins

It’s been a couple of months since we last shared an update on what we’ve been up to.

Well, today is the day we are finally sharing what’s been keeping us so frickin busy!

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Meet Winnie
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Meet Winnie

There’s a new member of the hippy bus crew and he’s a Honda XR 125L called Winnie. He maxes out a little quicker than Peppé at 65mph and is our new set of wheels to get us to some very exciting places!

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A Little Chat from a Field in Dorset
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A Little Chat from a Field in Dorset

It truly is the little moments in life that fill us with so much joy. As I sit here with a coffee in my battered coral travel cup, listening to pigeons unleash their early morning ‘twootwoos’, I’m thinking how lucky I am to be able to do this each and every day.

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