It’s 7am. I’m on the sofa of an Airbnb in Portugal and Reuben, all two years of him, is asleep against my leg. A bad dream woke him a few hours ago. Kathy took the sofa shift first, but I’d been tossi

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Wondering if your business is ready for AI? Most businesses get AI wrong before they spend a single penny on it. They start with the tool. Someone mentions ChatGPT at a networking event, or a competit

It is a filthy night on Benone. The wind has been at it long enough that the top layer of dry sand has packed up and moved itself down to Downhill, and what we’re sitting on now is the compacted damp

Shop Van life views, made into art. by DNNI located in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

We're nosy about the vans parked around us. Nice Van. Got a Story? is our quest to meet the owners, hear how they ended up here, and film it.

The DJI Power Expansion Battery 2000 finally arrived. Here's what the unboxing, firmware update, and full van install actually looks like.

The Reactive Outdoor 3 Secs Tent nearly had its first outing at midnight. Friends stayed too long, started weighing up whether to just stop over, and I was three sheets to the wind, putting the bed up

I’ve been testing the Kilos Gear GrandPeak high back camping chair on a beach in Northern Ireland, and if you’re a van lifer or motorhomer who’s been through the same revolving door of camp chairs tha

DJI won't ship to Northern Ireland? I hit the same wall buying the Power Expansion Battery 2000. Here's what it cost me, and how I got round it.

If you live in Northern Ireland and you’ve just had a part shipment notification from DJI, with no explanation of what’s missing or when it’s coming, welcome. You’re in the right place. DJI won’t ship

I wrote that line in our last post about the DJI fast charger warranty return, talking about the difference between being stranded and being inconvenienced. I didn’t expect to be taking my own advice

Our replacement DJI 1kW Fast Car Charger died in under two months. Here's why we're now buying a spare and an expansion battery to stay off-grid safely.

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There are two places to park near Magho Jetty in Fermanagh. One of them has a toilet, coaches pulling in throughout the day, traffic thundering past on a road that’s closer than you’d like, and not a

Teslovix got in touch and sent us three Starlink Mini accessories to review. My own Starlink is permanently bolted to an aerial pole on the roof, so I borrowed my son’s Mini and put all three through

Right then. We’ve got a Teslovix TSB-01 top suction bracket for the Starlink Mini to give away, and someone reading this is going to get it for free. It’s the mount that sticks to your skylight vent a

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The standard CO alarm in a motorhome does its job. Until it can’t. Here’s what I added to the motorhome and why. If you’ve got a motorhome or campervan, you almost certainly have a carbon monoxide det

Siad, who was under investigation in France, was reportedly found dead by a 28-year-old woman after having a cardiac arrest at home.

Sometimes the parking gods abandon you. Bank Holiday Weekend in Northern Ireland, half the population scarpered over the border to avoid the marching, and every spot near Tory Ferry was rammed solid.

If you want to see chaos in its most good natured form, watch a line of motorhomes trying to find Dunfanaghy motorhome parking on a busy Saturday. Vans circle the pier, squeeze in opposite Arnold’s Ho

The tide doesn’t read Park4Night reviews, and at the Portnablagh pier park up, that’s the first thing worth knowing before you drop your levelling ramps. We called it “Portnameh,” because after stunni

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If you sit still long enough at Doe Castle, the world empties out around you. The tourists pack up, the motorhomes pull away, and what’s left is the kind of quiet you’d expect from the graveyard sitti

Horrific domestic assault by Derek McManus in Limavady leads to jail and brain surgery for victim

Some places you visit so often they stop feeling like a destination and start feeling like a commute. Ness Woods park up is exactly that for us. We’ve filmed here, mentioned it in blogs, pulled in mor

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Six minutes! That’s how long it took to have a ten-man tent standing in a light breeze in Roe Valley Country Park. No poles. No arguing. No one storming off back to the van. If you’ve been motorhoming

I run Cloudways managed WordPress hosting from a van with Starlink, which means I'm always online and always reachable when something breaks. Here's why that's actually fine.

We've been living full-time in a motorhome since 2025, both still employed. Here's the honest truth about income, costs, and what it actually takes.

Last Saturday night, Portrush motorhome parking did its level best to defeat us before the evening had even started. I meant to write this up the following morning. That was a week ago. In my defence,

Darron and Kathy have been living full-time in a motorhome across Ireland and Northern Ireland since mid-2025, working remotely and building Digital Nomad NI along the way. The dogs have their own sle

Starlink on a motorhome. Two professionals, two full-time jobs, one field in County Antrim. Here's why that chopping board on the roof is the most important piece of kit we own.

There’s a specific kind of frustration that only kicks in when you start getting good at something. Not the early frustration, where everything’s confusing and you don’t know where to start. The later