Welcome to The Little Red Bus. We are a couple looking towards early retirement and filled with the urge to travel and see the World. A grown up family and the challenges life presents, leaves us truly believing there’s more to life than work.

In this blog we will slowly prepare our former German fire truck for our eventual round the world trip. This life is not a dress rehearsal, so don’t mess it up…

The Little Red Bus is a VW T3 Syncro called Recce, pronounced Reki and which is short for Reckless.

Us & The Bus

Having worked all our adult lives and now the kids have gone, it’s time for us….

Equipment Reviews & DIY Projects

As we use our kit, we will write unbiased and honest reviews. This is where you find them…

The adventure begins soon…….

All being well we will begin by setting off to the north of England in late August, before hand railing the North Coast 500 (NC500), not following it closely, deviating to include the Orkney Islands, Hebrides and Cairngorms. This will serve as a shakedown, not for the van but for us. We haven’t properly lived…

Read more The adventure begins soon…….