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…

A voyage of Scottish discovery

So we always intended to break ourselves in gently and accordingly to start with an unbounded trip around Scotland, broadly following the North Coast 500 (NC500), but not not rigidly sticking to it. By unbounded, we mean not constrained by time and campsites: we will go when the whim takes us, for as long as…