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Seize the day (Van)

Sliding Doors. Not the one (or ones) on your Van, but the cheesy, late-’90’s movie with Gwyneth Paltrow. Movie references aside, I’m a big fan of that whole thing about paths crossing and how certain things would have worked out differently but for some small change.

I suppose on a grander scale it might be known as the butterfly effect. Whatever it is, and however you choose look at it, it’s difficult to ignore.

In this particular instance, the meandering life of a retired couple on a short break to the Isle of Wight in their recently acquired Bay Window triggered a chain of events that would lead a far-from-retired 39-year old, Dave Barnett, and his family to the wheel of this peach of a T5.1 Campervan.

How? Simple really. It’sthe hell out of this .

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