It’s a wee change from the Ducato in this video as we are upgrading Duncan’s Caddy Maxi, fitting roofbars so he can carry his bike on the roof, along with a single roof box and perhaps a tube to store his fishing rods.
When we converted the van we tried to be careful to fit a smaller solar panel to allow space for the roofbars and bike carrier, so fingers crossed it all fits. We bought the roof bars from DST Automotive, this version is called Can Auto Turtle.
We decided to upgrade the front suspension to replace the McPherson struts, the springs, the top bearing mounts and the drop links. This job was too big for me so I asked Raymond at RS Autos if he would do it and I could help and video the job as we went.
We fitted replacement Monroe McPherson struts and SACHS springs.
We had a wee day tour to Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe in Duncan’s Caddy Maxi campervan, so our Ducato had a day off.
Loch Awe looked like a mirror when we arrived and the scenery is lovely here. Sadly the pike were not biting today but there is some good fishing footage nevertheless.
We were attending a family wedding so we decided to take our campervan and stay at the Findhorn aire. We were also joined by our son and daughter in our son’s recently converted Caddy Maxi. You’ll have ready previous posts about the conversion if you’ve been following our journey.
The aire at Findhorn is brilliant. It’s clean and modern, with an electronic booking and access system. Everything worked perfectly from arrival to departure.
We arrived late the previous evening and loved the lack of light pollution. This is the view from our van at 10:30 pm. With the correct conditions you can see the Northern Lights. Unfortunately we did not on this occasion.
It’s a few minutes walk from the aire to the beach.
There is a maximum two day stay so the aire was emptying the day we left and provided a good opportunity to capture the Caddy Maxi in the foreground and our Ducato in the background.
It’s taken a while to start adding more updates from our tour of France in the summer, so a series of updates will follow.
We visited the Tour de France in Dunkirk where Duncan met Geraint Thomas and collected the famous Gilet.
We stayed here for at Saint Amand les Eaux for a couple of nights, visiting the tour in. Dunkirk and the cobbles.
I spent a day editing and looking after the dogs whilst everyone visited the tour in the cobbles.
McNaughts On Tour 