Just got back from our first trip to France in the Reimo. It was quite an interesting trip with many short journeys spent wondering if the van would actually make it to the top of the next hill. It always did. After a few slow moments I finally found out how hard I needed to push the van in each gear to get it moving. We made it to Arras….

For this trip I removed the bike carrier, it was just a little low at the back and would have been on the ground on and off the ferry, some adjustment needed there.

The van was really good when we where camping, first few days had some rain and the extra space inside compared with our Westfalia was really useful.

In the roof box we had two tables, four chairs, the Fiamma ramps and some table tennis stuff, so that proved to be a good investment, none of that stuff inside the van.

After a few days of getting used to the van on the flat and on the hills it was obvious that it was going to be useable rather than just slow. We went from Dover to Cambridge in under three hours, mostly at around 55 – 60mph and the van gave us about 24mpg even though we had crappy supermarket diesel in it, probably go further on some decent BP stuff.

Where are we going next….?