Hello, and welcome to Van of Ages from Max and Dani – a blog and YouTube channel following our journey around Britain’s historic sites, well and lesser-known. We have been doing ‘#VanLife’ since around 2010, visiting sites from the neolithic, through the Brythonic, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon but this time we thought it would be good to share these hidden gems of Britain.
What to expect
YouTube is great, we can upload amazing videos showing off these places in 4K – but sometimes it’s good to have something more solid to refer to, and that’s where this website comes in. Everything we publish on YouTube will have an article here, whether it’s details about a historic site, locations & facilities for campervans, or period recipes used in the videos.
Often there will be details relating to archeology, archaeolinguistics, or social anthropology which can’t succinctly be conveyed in a video beyond soundbites and photos – that’s where VanOfAges.com comes in.
As for the YouTube channel, it will document the visual beauty and features of each place we visit – both on the ground, in beautiful first-person ASMR views, and from the air.
We begin our journey at home, in historic Northumberland – home of the vast Hadrian’s Wall, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, and a multitude of other sites which are less-known.
How we travel
We began travelling in around 2010 in a Renault Master that we converted into a motorhome; it was a great wee van but even after major welding work (including the replacement of the floor!) it eventually became unsustainable and had to be scrapped.
Around three years ago we acquired a Mercedes Sprinter (LWB) – much more living space, but it was basically empty. We built it up into what it is today and other than the diesel required for the engine and air heating (and gas for the oven / hob), it’s self-sufficient with a few hundred watts of PV/solar to keep the lights, television, microwave, router, fridge, and water pump running.
We have been to the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany in it without any issues so far.
