We begin the episode with our chat about a video call from an SEO “guru” wanting £7-14k to rebrand our whole podcast sends us down our own SEO rabbit hole instead: spoiler: we’ve started to do our ourselves. Back in the UK and nothing’s changed for us in UK van life: it’s rain in August, a battery too drained to run the kettle, and the usual bureaucratic nightmare just to keep the van legal.

We revisit France: a van life car-park showdown with a French couple that would’ve made great clickbait if we wanted it to be, and two nights that reminded us what real community actually is. We end with the grief and guilt underneath the question of whether we leave the UK for good, and why we don’t have a clean answer yet. Alternative living means uncertainty is part of the journey, we suppose. 

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We take our children to a naturist camp for the first time, and it completely rearranges how we think about bodies, shame and freedom.

In this alternative lifestyle podcast episode we discuss:

• Our own body image histories growing up (some of it heavy: fair warning)
• What it's actually like arriving at a four-star naturist resort in the south of France
• A run-in with an older resident who thought our daughters should be bottomless, and what the law and the campsite's own rules actually say
• Why naturism has a generational problem, and what that means for its future
• Naked Attraction gets dragged into question (rightly so)
• The great pubic hair debate: to pube or not to pube is the question
• Naomi's new project exploring naturism, folklore and curiosity:

https://barelycurious.substack.com/

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In this nomestia diaries we cross into France, say goodbye to Spain, and drive straight past an active wildfire on the motorway, a stark reminder that alternative living doesn't mean burying your head in the sand Then: a chaotic grey-water stand-off outside Barcelona, our honest verdict on Sevilla vs. Barcelona, and how we tended to an eight-year-old's full meltdown before getting her ears pierced. What embodied parenting actually looks like out in public, on a busy street, with everyone watching. This is slow living but real life friction included.

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Realities of Full Time Vanlife With Three Children.

In this episode, we move through our top topics on full time vanlife. This ain't no holiday. We aren't in kansas anymore...We've chosen topics not often shared such as how do relationships survive vanlife. how apps make things a challenge not necessarily an ease when making parking choices, why we chose van life (and it's not for the lifestyle or drone shots), meeting other families, costs and what happens to that grey water?

This is an honest financial and emotional reality of full-time vanlife with three children. No romanticising, no highlight reel. Why we chose it, what it's actually cost us, and the truth nobody shares: close-proximity living doesn't fix your mental health, it forces you to face it. This isn't escaping the system, it's an alternative living experiment in real time, nervous systems and all.

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Welcome to The Field.

Twice a year as the seasons change, we'll drop a gift in the post. A small collection to mark the turn of the year.

A gift to yourself, or to someone who needs the reminder to land gently into the here and now.

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In this episode we explore how we wedged our van in a Valencia car park at midnight, a police run-in mid-laundry day, and an ant invasion no one shows you on Instagram. You are welcome to join us for the unglamorous side of alternative living, vanlife included. Plus: a real reflection on pushy parenting, child-led passions, and why we're in no rush to fill our children's calendars.

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Why school creates shame around reading and how we rebuilt the joy of it through home education instead. We talk through both of our own complicated reading journeys, how we handle it with three very different children on the road in a van, and end with a few book recommendations worth stealing.

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In this episode we explore, beautiful waterfall days, a reflection on Sunday trading hours and why we've come to crave slow living the way the rest of Europe still protects, and behind the scenes of building a meditation library from a boiling-hot van. Plus: an update on Xanthe's health journey and what we've learned about diet and her nervous system along the way.

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Real talk for anyone wanting to visit Morocco or even take a van to Morocco: the truth about insurance, cash, and cost of living, why staying with local families beats any hotel, and the cultural etiquette around dress that too many tourists ignore. Ten honest, occasionally chaotic lessons from seven months on Moroccan roads: vanlife included.

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A snapped door hinge turns into a lesson in Moroccan mechanics, we'll genuinely miss hammams, and a stressful scramble for cash before the ferry home. Plus: a real conversation about Naomi's return to drinking after five years sober, and why we're both a bit tired of binary thinking: alternative living included.

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