Posted in London, Mobile Internet on Oct 22nd, 2008
Once again we’re in London, and again plagued with connectivity issues. Dear readers, never use the UK 3’s 3G (dis)service; it’s unequivocally shit! An Eifel tower is planted right next to us, marred with comm. stuff and yet there’s limited/no service!? And the guys in the 3 stores have zero technical knowledge—my grandma would be [...]
As soon as the children’s song ‘incey wincey spider’ crawled into my mind and stuck, it was time to leave Sweden and the other disturbingly catchy nursery rhymes, despite the lovely company and much needed break from the van. So, as the beautiful Swedes wished us luck, we apprehensively left for Norway from Lomma, Sweden [...]
Posted in England, Mobile Internet, UK on Jun 18th, 2008
Following weeks of almost nil cyber-ness, we have satellite internet connection! And it’s been one hell of a battle to arrive at this point. Naively, we hoped that the 3G network might help us stay connected with the world; however, it turns out that Three’s 3G coverage and their technical support just don’t cut it. [...]
We’ve been hangin’ at Stanage in the Peak District national park, located about 260 km north-west of London, for about five weeks now. We’ve resided at various campsites, paddocks and caravan parks (for power), and even spent one night alongside a road in a dark, shadowy forest when there was nowhere else to stay during [...]
Right, the other objective did take a while, but some may think otherwise: the very first van we looked at, we bought. Backing up a little, we searched for vans via the gumtree.com website, but also decided to take up the advice of the Lonely Planet book and shop for a camper at the unofficial [...]
Posted in England, London, Mobile Internet, UK on Apr 30th, 2008
We ended up staying in London for just under two weeks and in that time managed to take in precisely zero famous landmarks. Unless driving past Buckingham palace in a taxi at 2am counts. And of course one can’t avoid eyeballing the ridiculously large Ferris wheel on the skyline. But hey, we were on a [...]