Welcome to our Heidi Hymer website and blog.

Here you can find out all about what we get up to in our Hymer Motorhome: our travels, trials, tribulations and triumphs. She's an old vehicle with a classic feel and top quality fixtures and fittings but she is high maintenance and has need of loving care!

Heidi

Heidi is our 1994 Hymer B544 motorhome who came to us on May 15th 2014 following the sale of our beloved Oakley our wooden horsebox conversion (see here).

This website is called The Further Adventures of Heidi, because we don't know much about her travels before she came to us. We do know she was registered in Germany and imported to the UK in 2009 and has only done 102,000 km when we got her. We found her following a very short and impetuous search, having decided the next vehicle was to be a Hymer.  I have long admired Hymers and remember seeing what looked like a caravan stuffed on a truck chassis several times and wondered what exactly they were.  We looked at a Hymer in Halifax which was nice, but had an odd feeling and was very smokey running.  We immediately searched locally and found Heidi as she was to be called in Denholm.  We put a deposit down and bought her there and then!

Below is everywhere we've been and everything we've done to look after her, since we got her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Trips

Nofolk and CL sites

Nofolk and CL sites

By Richard Lupson / July 30, 2020
We no longer have to go to Devon, because the Devon Danglers have moved to Norfolk - we visited in...
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Silverdale post lockdown

Silverdale post lockdown

By Richard Lupson / July 20, 2020
We're free! Its arrived, the long awaited day when camping and motorhoming can begin again. The journey through the Covid...
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North Yorks Moors

North Yorks Moors

By Richard Lupson / October 29, 2019
A quick autumn trip was required. Silverdale was requested but I couldn't face another trip to Silverdale this year and...
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Wales September 19

Wales September 19

By Richard Lupson / September 28, 2019
A trip to somewhere new. Planned for early September but pushed back a week because of the weather forecast and...
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Norfolk Nibblers

Norfolk Nibblers

By Richard Lupson / August 14, 2019
Neil and Clare have moved from being Devon Danglers to Norfolk Nibblers. They are renting with a view to buying...
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Cheeky Silverdale

Cheeky Silverdale

By Richard Lupson / July 15, 2019
We had a quick midweek trip to Silverdale. 3 nights just before school hols started. Nice pitch in the corner...
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Masons June 19

Masons June 19

By Richard Lupson / June 11, 2019
It was a difficult trip and a compensatory one! The year had been difficult because my mum had been given...
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Its February – It must be Silverdale

Its February – It must be Silverdale

By Richard Lupson / February 25, 2019
Itching to get started this year, we were looking for a nice week weather wise.  We spotted it.  We had...
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Autumn 2018

Autumn 2018

By Richard Lupson / December 7, 2018
Mason's September brought a spell of warm weather and we slipped off to Mason's campsite in Appletreewick for a midweek...
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France 2018 Journey home

France 2018 Journey home

By Richard Lupson / July 28, 2018
After 13 glorious days and nights on the Ile de Re it was time to leave.  Our journey home was...
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Maintenance & Upgrades

We’re falling in love again

We’re falling in love again

By Richard Lupson / July 23, 2020
Following the disaster with the "engine rebuild", I needed to be more friendly to Heidi. This means spending more time...
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Tidying up the front bits

Tidying up the front bits

By Richard Lupson / June 30, 2020
Following the sorting of the engine, its onwards and upwards with a list of projects to re-engage and revitalise Heidi....
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Engine disaster

Engine disaster

By Richard Lupson / June 24, 2020
Big cock up revealed. Much shame and disappointment has occurred. You will be aware, if you follow everything I write,...
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Leaking rooflight

By Richard Lupson / October 31, 2019
We notices a wet bathroom carpet on a recent trip.  We removed the carpet to dry it out and found...
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Trike Rack

Trike Rack

By Richard Lupson / May 31, 2019
SO when you buy a trike because you can no longer ride a bike, you need a rack to put...
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Dampness and minor repairs

Dampness and minor repairs

By Richard Lupson / January 29, 2019
Damp found above the hatch from outside to the locker under the bench seat.  Obviously this ingress should be coming...
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Tyres

Tyres

By Richard Lupson / August 2, 2018
All round France we had a regular lump or knock which appeared to be offside.  It only came at certain...
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Damp and the drivers door

Damp and the drivers door

By Richard Lupson / April 11, 2018
There has long been damp on the drivers door. Persistent use of Captain Trolley's sealant might have improved things but...
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Air suspension

Air suspension

By Richard Lupson / March 31, 2018
I added air suspension.  Well firstly I sold my record collection and having hoped to get £250 - £300 for...
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New rear shock absorbers

New rear shock absorbers

By Richard Lupson / July 31, 2017
I fitted new rear shock absorbers!  I bought 800Kg Gas filled shocks from Custom Campers for £135.  It was an...
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