Welcome to The Little Red Bus. We are a couple looking towards early retirement (now retired!) 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 (Updated)

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…

Poland in deep winter….

Having travelled across Western Europe, over the old East German border and through the Czech Republic, we reached Poland. Now we encountered deep snow, heavy snow showers and diesel heater failure. We entered Poland through the region called Lower Silesia, planning to route down to Zakopane , where we would cross into Slovakia. Now Poland…