#GOBACKPACK Vanlife

We put three questions to our van experts

What made you decide to go travelling in a van? When we were on our trip around the world we spent four weeks in a van travelling along the eastern coast of Australia, and fell in love with the lifestyle. When you’re travelling in your own vehicle, you’re usually very independent, it doesn’t cost the earth and has a very, very cool image. You can decide on the spur of the moment where you want to head for and discover new places each and every day. When we’re off travelling, we don’t want to be tied down to deadlines and obligations.

With hindsight, what would you do differently with your own van? Not much, we don’t need luxury, nor does everything have to be perfect when we’re travelling. Maybe we’d build the bed a bit lower next time so we can sit up without our heads hitting the roof. But, then again, that all depends on the make of the van.

It must be quite difficult to have so little space if you’re travelling for a long time. How do you handle this challenging situation? We haven’t had a row on a van trip so far as we spend most of our time outdoors, hiking and climbing. The biggest challenge in such a small space is keeping it tidy: that’s probably where we end up bickering. If we find ourselves getting on the other person’s nerves, we just stay out of each other’s way for a while.