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Gorg, or 'Weisenberger' as he is otherwise known, is a 2002 Citroen Berlingo. From what we know he began his life as a plumbers van until we came along to buy him in 2011. Buying him wasn't difficult, but there wasn't a lot of information available at the time so I wrote a website after our trip to help make the process easier for others into the future.
With water-like flames shooting along both sides, and proudly proclaiming his services in german, we gave Gorg a new role in life by ripping out his guts and filling him with the contents of the local IKEA catalog. It wasn't all smooth sailing, with his clutch snapping in two just three weeks into our journey, stranding us at midnight in a chilly Estonia with a dead battery, popping a hole through the radiator in Spain and going dark in the UK by having both headlights fail simultaneously. But for the most part we loved our time with Gorg as he took us across 21 countries in six blissful months. The lessons we learnt from living and travelling in our tiny little van have been invaluable in teaching us about the important things in life - what constitutes a 'need' over a 'want', how much space two humans can inhabit without killing each other, and the importance of understanding the weather conditions of a continent entering a snowy winter! After adding 22,000km to the clock (pushing him over the 200,000km mark) Gorg was bought by a guy in West Ham for 500 pounds and (hopefully) is continuing his life in the African country of Ghana. We still have his numberplates as a momento on our wall at home. We love you Gorg xx |