NEW BLOGS

We were able to pick up our van in July 2020 and immediately started planning and building. In this blogpost you can read how we started our build and what we installed on the exterior and interior before we could get to the fun part: the furniture and decorations (which are more my thing). This blog is more about the technical aspects of the build, so I will add a little disclaimer: if I write “we” in this blog I mean “Hielke”. I was highly pregnant during most of this phase, so I didn’t play an important part in the installing except discussing options with Hielke.

Deciding on the layout of the campervan is one of the hardest things we had to do. We changed our mind many times on questions such as: do we want a convertible or a fixed bed and do we prefer an open plan or do we want more storage space? Not planning the layout of your van properly will delay the build of your van as everything you decide on in a tiny space is interrelated. A complicating factor was that the van also needs to accommodate a baby, but we never traveled with a baby before. In this blogpost I will explain how we got to the final layout of our van.

Okay, this weeks blog’s title might not be totally accurate: Hielke is converting a van and I am doing the cooking and trying to unburden him as much as possible so he can make progress on the van. Hielke and I had been fantasizing about converting a van ourselves for quite some time, but it was when we became pregnant that we decided to make this dream a reality. We are really looking forward to all the trips we are going to make with our little baby in this van, but first we have to finish it. This is the first blog in a series about converting our van. This series will be a little bit different than you are used from me, as it will not have as many “pretty pictures”, as we are currently still in the process of renovating the van, which means a lot of dirty clothes and wood filling pictures and more text heavy blogs. Later in the year we hope to make the first trips with our van, we probably will start with a domestic trip to the flower fields and we hope to explore Europe as soon as the borders open up again!