\nAnother thing is the stuff you decide is essential to take with you and fill the limited storage space of your camper. One thing is certain, you and your partner usually don\u2019t agree on what is really essential\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 . A stock of chocolate that uses a good part of the fridge is a good example, or too many cloths for the same weather is another one, or do we really need real wine glasses and a vacu-vin (hand vaccum pump to store open wine bottles) and how about curry paste for green, red and<\/span> yellow curry, and<\/span> a selection of Indian curry mixes (the latter extremely delicious thank you Behroze!).
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1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To prepare our trip, we took an extended First Aid<\/b> course (i.e. what to do if the next hospital is a few days away). Excellent course we found, with lots of recommendations what to do and what to take with you. As a result we have a great stock of medicaments etc. 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I also did a best guess on what Shoes<\/b> I need (hiking, visiting cities, beach, busy days, lazy days, hot weather, cold weather, camp ground, etc). Somehow Michel came to 5 pairs and I to a few more, suppose this is normal\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 but it does take a bit of precious space and we could have probably done with a few less\u2026 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you like Reading<\/b>, and we both do, you imagin lots of time for this during 1 year. So Michel\u2019s solution was to obtain an eBook reader from his colleagues and load as many books as possible. My solution was to create a big heap of all the great books I had intended to start reading over the last years and painfully select a few. In addition to this we needed a minimum of travel and hiking guide books. So the result is a few kilos of paper. 4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michel did a great selection of tools for the car and electronic measurement equipment. I think it is a little over done, but are not sure Michel agrees with this\u2026<\/p>\n Afterall, we will only know after coming back what we really needed. Just like every holiday suitcase packing we probably have a lot of stuff we don\u2019t need. But how do you exactly know which part of what you pack you will or will not need?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you travel with a camper van, certain things become luxury. I am sure many of you know what I am talking about\u2026 Hot Water, or simply water is one of them. We have a 40 l \u201cdrinking water\u201d tank … Continuer la lecture
\nQuestion is, do we really need all this or did we overdo it a little?![\"041\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/milke.fr\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/041.jpg?ssl=1\")
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\nThe travel and hiking guides are definitely very useful so far and the in fact little time we find to read creates fantastic cosy moments comfortably installed in the shade or just a few minutes before breakfast\u2026. (I am currently reading a great book that my sister gave to me: The Name of the Wind, very hard to put the book down and stop reading\u2026)!
\nIn hindsight, we don\u2019t have as much time as we thought for reading and everybody we meet is proposing to exchange books, so I could have probably taken a little fewer books, and I think Michel violently agrees. But then again, I really really wanted to read the ones I took\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n