It begins.

Through the eircooled site, I got in touch with John Hickey of Krazy Kombis down in Kilkenny (Always makes we think of South Park). We exchanged a few emails and it turned out he had just ordered what I needed from Calafornia: A 77-78, Westfalia Type 2, Volkswagon Camper van, with Automatic transmission. Left hand drive, but not a big issue.

He sent me a few photos above.The 77 looks more like what we want, we're thinking of a cream on top, coffee colour below combo for the colours outside, inside, I don't know, but all new since we have 2 asthmatics in the family. But I like the layout inside of the 77-78's best, I think they have more flor space, and I like the swivel front seat and the walk through from thefront to the back.

We went down on Saturday to meet John and have a look at the camper he worked on for the eircooled raffle (which raised over 17k for charity) and some others he is working on. It was great to climb around in one and get a feel for it. We gave him a deposit, and now we're waiting for the 2 campers to come form California, it'll be about 2-3 months before we travel down again and look over both and choose one.