Magazine photo shoot

On Tuesday just gone Arnie had a photo shoot by top VW photographer Dave Warren for VW Camper and Commercial Magazine.

I was a bit worried as Arnie is no way a show bus, far from it! So Tuesday morning i had to clear all the camping stuff out from the weekend, its amazing how much crap you have in there lol, bits and bobs everywhere! I gave him a quick snow foam wash, cleaned Grace's hand prints and the dogs nose marks off the windows and dusted the dash off just in time for Dave Warren to arrive at the garage after the morning shooting my friend Paul's 1961 Beetle that i restored last year.

We headed off to a spot a few minutes away from my work for the shoot, Dave Warren worked his magic with the camera and the results were amazing!

Keep an eye out for VW Camper and Commercial magazine for follow the links and subscribe so you don't miss the green machine in all his glory!

Also check out http://www.davewarrenimages.co.uk/ to see his amazing work.

Hollands Wood Campsite, New Forest

With the weather still awesome we decided to camp in the new forest this weekend just gone, me, Grace and Obi picked up my nephew Alfie on the way through and headed 35 miles west to the middle of the new forest. we arrived at a nice little campsite called Hollands Wood just outside the small village of Brockenhurst.

Its a lovely little campsite with very clean toilets and showers witch was handy with the kids. There are ponies, donkeys and even cows wandering around, we made the mistake of leaving a loaf of bread on the table as we popped to the toilets only to return with a pony scoffing the lot!

The kids loved it in the woods, loads of trees to climb and dens people have made with the branches.
We will be heading back over here in the next few months, if your thinking of heading to the new forest for a few days this camp site is well worth a look, its even a dog friendly site so you can bring your dogs for no extra money!

Couple of apes

Grace the poser

Alfie

Obi

Packing up

Animals everywhere!

Hill Head beach

So as the weather took a turn for the better last weekend we decided to pack a picnic, jump in Arnie and just see where we ended up. I let Grace decide if we should head east or west, she chose west and off we went!

We only ended up traveling 14 miles and found some signs for Hill Head beach, I had never heard of it even though its so close to us so we checked it out and took Obi for a walk. Opposite the parking is a nature reserve but thought we had best steer clear of that with an excitable puppy.

Whilst walking Grace done her #2minutebeachclean and picked up a hell of a lot of plastic bottle tops from the beach for that short amount of time! Its amazing how much rubbish is left behind on a beach.

Anyway if your about that way pop down there and check it out.

Meet the new member of the family :)

So here's the new member of our little family, Graces dog Obi.

Hes 4 and a half months old now, and now the weather has picked up he will be out with us on our travels now hes used to the traveling.

Grace and Obi at 8 weeks old

Guarding the green machine