Hey Folks,
Aaron here, introducing myself. I come from Kent in the UK originally, but I've been here in Normandy since 2004 and currently living in a little cabin in the woods with the love of my life, wifi and a T4. So life's just grand.
Profession - Pin-up artist. Type Bushcraft Betty in Youtube. That's my work, but rather dated looking
I'm also a 30 year veteran carpenter/joiner, though nowadays we make enough off my drawing hobby to pay the bills. I still do the odd carpentry job now and then. Sort of have to, since the girlfriend and I are working on the cabin renovation and garden upgrade.
Interests - Bushcraft and camping mainly. So combining this hobby with a T4 has transformed my world, honestly, I've never had such fun dreaming up ways of making the once people carrier van into an adventure van any rough camping bushcrafter would envy. The grin factor is off the chart playing with this van. My girlfriend and I spent four weeks living out of it last year. Two weeks static in the woods at the Bushmoot at Bridgend in south Wales. Driving along mud trails deep into the woods was hill-airy-arse! This was followed by two more weeks on the road camping around north Cornwall, before driving back along the pretty coastal route to Kent. We slept better than royalty and ate like kings on meals cooked a single gas ring cooker or campfire. Warm dry with only a small snag list of changes we found we needed. Stocked up on some great memories too.
Other hobbies inc Motorbikes. Reading, Sci-fi mostly. We're also into DVDs a lot, but have no incoming TV. Mainstream media does my head in, though I do like spending time online, including Facebook. I hadn't realised Just T4s was actually a dedicated forum rather than just another random VW Facebook group. D'oh! I've been a member there since getting my van back in 2015.
Proud owner of a 310k (km) 1.9tdi swb van, aka Velma. And is my ever evolving project to make the van as multi-purpose as possible. Fully insulated with a ton of storage space. A chuck box and roof rack. A tool box storage unit, which turns into a sofa, which tuns into a single bed, which turns into a double bed. And I can still load her out as a builder's van if I have to. I use the trailer for the dirty stuff.
Recent stuff on the van. Changed the front VW logo with a custom made peace sign. I before Christmas I got around to doing the EGR mod and also ditched that daft restrictive horn out of the airbox lid. Love the change in low down power. The UK trip saw us clock up 2000 miles and it was a joy to fly up some of the hills to Yorkshire and back to Kent. This is the second engine I've had in it (It is a T4 after all) and the replacement wasn't as pokey as the original one. Shame it had to eat a valve on the M25 three days before Christmas 2015. .. I digress. These small 5 minute mods put the grin back on my face. Now I don't know if I can be bothered doing the fuel pump and turbo mod. Honestly, I moved to France for a slower pace of life, and pootling along at 55 kmh or mph suits me just fine. I'm not in any rush. I'm a born again hippy/biker with a T4.
Thanks for reading.
Aaron here, introducing myself. I come from Kent in the UK originally, but I've been here in Normandy since 2004 and currently living in a little cabin in the woods with the love of my life, wifi and a T4. So life's just grand.
Profession - Pin-up artist. Type Bushcraft Betty in Youtube. That's my work, but rather dated looking
I'm also a 30 year veteran carpenter/joiner, though nowadays we make enough off my drawing hobby to pay the bills. I still do the odd carpentry job now and then. Sort of have to, since the girlfriend and I are working on the cabin renovation and garden upgrade.
Interests - Bushcraft and camping mainly. So combining this hobby with a T4 has transformed my world, honestly, I've never had such fun dreaming up ways of making the once people carrier van into an adventure van any rough camping bushcrafter would envy. The grin factor is off the chart playing with this van. My girlfriend and I spent four weeks living out of it last year. Two weeks static in the woods at the Bushmoot at Bridgend in south Wales. Driving along mud trails deep into the woods was hill-airy-arse! This was followed by two more weeks on the road camping around north Cornwall, before driving back along the pretty coastal route to Kent. We slept better than royalty and ate like kings on meals cooked a single gas ring cooker or campfire. Warm dry with only a small snag list of changes we found we needed. Stocked up on some great memories too.
Other hobbies inc Motorbikes. Reading, Sci-fi mostly. We're also into DVDs a lot, but have no incoming TV. Mainstream media does my head in, though I do like spending time online, including Facebook. I hadn't realised Just T4s was actually a dedicated forum rather than just another random VW Facebook group. D'oh! I've been a member there since getting my van back in 2015.
Proud owner of a 310k (km) 1.9tdi swb van, aka Velma. And is my ever evolving project to make the van as multi-purpose as possible. Fully insulated with a ton of storage space. A chuck box and roof rack. A tool box storage unit, which turns into a sofa, which tuns into a single bed, which turns into a double bed. And I can still load her out as a builder's van if I have to. I use the trailer for the dirty stuff.
Recent stuff on the van. Changed the front VW logo with a custom made peace sign. I before Christmas I got around to doing the EGR mod and also ditched that daft restrictive horn out of the airbox lid. Love the change in low down power. The UK trip saw us clock up 2000 miles and it was a joy to fly up some of the hills to Yorkshire and back to Kent. This is the second engine I've had in it (It is a T4 after all) and the replacement wasn't as pokey as the original one. Shame it had to eat a valve on the M25 three days before Christmas 2015. .. I digress. These small 5 minute mods put the grin back on my face. Now I don't know if I can be bothered doing the fuel pump and turbo mod. Honestly, I moved to France for a slower pace of life, and pootling along at 55 kmh or mph suits me just fine. I'm not in any rush. I'm a born again hippy/biker with a T4.
Thanks for reading.
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