IT STARTED WITH A VAN

What do you do when your car breaks down during a pandemic nobody will fix it and you end up buying a carpenter s van with no windows no experience and absolutely no idea what you re doing If you re Andy you convert it into a campervan You install a diesel heater carpet the walls put a coffee machine on the worktop and drive to Lake Como If you are Claire you make a lot of tea It Started with a Van is the true story of how a faulty Mercedes a bolt that took two weeks and angle grinder to remove and a YouTube channel that started with five views led two people from Barnsley on the adventure they never planned and couldn t stop having It is a book about a van a marriage a dog called Pablo and the difference between vision and reality Told in two voices with no agreement on the timeline and considerable disagreement about most of the details The authors live in Barnsley