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DISTANT NORTH - HIKING THE KUNGSLEDEN A film documenting the 440km trek through the arctic wilderness of northern Sweden. Setting off in September 2015 from Abisko Mountain Station, we spent th...

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“Jumping off the train laden with a 20kg pack and a strong determination to leave civilisation behind within the last largest remaining wilderness in Europe - the next 30 days would be life cha...

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SUMMER IN THE WESTERN ISLES  Hushinish beach is the end point of the B887, and I can’t think of a reason why you’d turn back. The now customary golden sands of the outer hebrides washed out...

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LIFE’S A BEACH Waking amongst an army of other campervans under the beating sun, it felt more like Portugal than the Western Isles. Not ones to shy away from prime outdoor weather, we threw ev...

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We hope you’ve all had a very merry Christmas! In honour of the festivities we’ve slashed the prices of our much loved tee to a tenner, grab them whilst you can over at www.weleavetomorrow.co...

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AS WEST AS WE’RE GOING TO GET On a whim we arrived at Uig port a day early with the hopes of catching an earlier ferry; achieving all we’d set out to on Skye, itchy tyres had us moving close...

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We’re happy to share with you all some new/old footage we’ve been hanging onto for the past year. Far too long to be confined to a hard drive. We started filming our travels in October 2014...

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WAITING GAME   The rain was persistent, giving us the ideal opportunity to hide away in the van at a campsite for showers, electricity, wifi, water, toilet disposable, all the good stuff. 24 ...

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PHOTOGRAPHY ON SKYE   Awaking to a cloud of midges (again) we made our way to Portree for food shopping and a look around before walking up to the Old Man of Storr. The clouds were incredibly...

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RETURN TO SKYE   We continued on through Ardnamurchan making our way to Mallaig for the ferry over to Skye. The midges were ferocious and persistent, even with the rain our van was still swar...

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ARDNAMURCHAN   After some amazing showers in Tobermory harbour for £2, we topped up our water supplies from a convenient tap next to the car park before hopping onto a small ferry back over ...

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ISLAND EXPLORATION - MULL Grey skies greeted us the following morning. Happy we’d chosen yesterday to seize the wonderful weather and wild camp on Ulva, we packed away the tent in record time ...

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DISTANT NORTH – HIKING THE KUNGSLEDEN Last year our paths crossed with photographer Cody and his partner Justyna whilst we were exploring the amazing Lofoten islands. You can catch up on those...

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WILDCAMPING ON ULVA // TESTING OUT OUR MOUNTAIN WAREHOUSE MICROLITE 1400 SLEEPING BAGS Awaking to a glorious day we left our designated wild camping spot behind a flock of sheep who’d come bou...

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ISLAY - OBAN - MULL Departing Islay the following morning amidst a shower of rain we drove off the CalMac ferry in search of three things: fish & chips, Beavers, and Oban.  The first we cros...

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SPOTTING SEALS AND IRRITATING TERNS Driving towards Ardnave along the single track roads we spotted numerous birds of prey soaring overhead as we trundled through the landscape in search of the...

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COAST   We really were blessed with stunningly hot and sunny weather whilst we were on Arran, giving us the opportunity to get out of the van and explore as much as we could. Kings Cave sound...

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HEY THERE SCOTLAND!   A couple of weeks down time in Birmingham allowed us to catch up on the blog, get Belthy’s MOT, midge-proof the van, give her a thorough wash, visit plenty of family a...

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UK SOIL   So here we were, back on UK soil after months and months of further European adventures since our break-in back in December. Lets rewind two days to explain how we got here… A...

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RETURN TO SLOVENIA   Picking Robin up in Innsbruck we continued onto Slovenia, driving through Italy on the way making our total countries tally for the day an even 4. Arriving in Bovec to su...

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