The life and times of HUGO BUS

Right then. Big moment in the HugoBus "kitchen" this week (and by kitchen I mean the mark on the carpet that used to smell faintly of our old cool-box and now smells of absolutely nothing... just a warm patch, at one end?!). For my 57th birthday we "upgraded" to the Alpicool NLS55 — a dual-zone compressor fridge, which is a fancy way of saying Hugo (and us) have got a proper fridge bit AND a proper freezer bit, and it doesn't care what the weather's doing outside. No more "is this cheese fridge-cold or just outside-in-October-cold." A real fridge. A real freezer. In a van. We've arrived. So here are some mandatory "sales" pics to get a feel for this "large" unit. This is a proper upgrade for us. Our old fridge was a Mobicool Q40 — a sturdy, sticker-bombed big thermoelectric box that had done us proud and looked brilliant doing it. But thermoelectric fridges are thirsty things, and off-grid it just couldn'...