# Journeys of the Nebuchadnezzar > Free campervan planning calculators, real UK touring routes and the owner log of a 2025 Swift Trekker X Automatic campervan ("the Landship Nebuchadnezzar"), based in Worcestershire, UK. Static site, no accounts, no cookies of its own. ## Tools - [Free campervan calculators](https://landshipneb.com/tools.html): payload and weight, off-grid battery and water endurance, trip budget, departure checklist, packing lists, UK campsite and attraction membership optimiser, and a travel document passport. All browser-local and editable for any campervan. - [Trip Engine](https://landshipneb.com/engine.html): a free browser-local planner that reads the expedition archive and the calculators, then recommends and budgets a route from your start point, dates and crew. ## Journeys - [Journey archive](https://landshipneb.com/journeys.html): complete trip files with routes, campsites and field notes. - [Trip Engine Room](https://landshipneb.com/engine.html): free browser-based UK campervan trip planner — ranks 22 expedition files against your dates and start region, explains why the others lost, compares two side by side, and builds a dashboard covering route, fuel at your own mpg, off-grid endurance, daylight, spring/neap tide windows, regional climate for the month and a demand rating out of five. - [The Nature Matrix — UK wildlife calendar](https://landshipneb.com/species.html): 354 British species and seasonal spectacles filterable by month, rarity, group and expedition — birds, mammals, marine life, rockpool species, butterflies, fungi, flowers, fossils and dark-sky events, plus a full freshwater, fly and sea angling thread with licence and close-season notes. - [The Nature Matrix transmission](https://landshipneb.com/nature-matrix.html): the long-form guide to the wildlife calendar — the shape of the British year month by month, the four-band rarity ladder, narrow seasonal windows, the 26 rare species, the full angling thread with licence and close-season rules, and the tap-to-log collecting game with ranks, points, expedition patches, kid mode and printable A6 spotting cards. - [What’s new](https://landshipneb.com/whats-new.html): the change log — the Nature Matrix and field log, Engine why-not lines, comparison view, demand ratings, month scrubber, tide and climate windows, the unified van profile, site search, RSS and full offline caching. - [Scotland Expedition 01](https://landshipneb.com/scotland.html): a 14-day, ~1,500-mile campervan circuit from Worcestershire to Skye and Torridon, with a Mallaig–Armadale ferry crossing, campsite spine and departure checklist. - [Wales Expedition 02](https://landshipneb.com/wales.html): a 14-day, ~700–850-mile campervan circuit through Eryri, Anglesey, St Davids, the Gower and the Tywi valley, with a Sherpa'r Wyddfa mountain day and club-site spine. Status: planned. - [South West Expedition 03](https://landshipneb.com/cornwall.html): a 14-day, ~750–900-mile campervan circuit through Exmoor, Tintagel, St Ives, the Roseland and Torbay, with a club-site spine and lane protocol. Status: planned. - [Lakes & Dales Expedition 04](https://landshipneb.com/lakes-dales.html): a 14-day, ~550–700-mile campervan circuit through Coniston, Derwentwater, Ullswater, Wensleydale and Malham, with a boat-and-bus protocol and club-site spine. Status: planned. - [Northumberland Expedition 05](https://landshipneb.com/northumberland.html): a 14-day, ~850–1,000-mile campervan circuit along Hadrian's Wall, into Kielder and up the castle coast, with a tide-timed Holy Island crossing and an all-club-site spine. Status: planned. - [East Anglia Expedition 06](https://landshipneb.com/east-anglia.html): a 14-day, ~650–800-mile campervan circuit through Sandringham, the North Norfolk coast, the Broads and the Suffolk shore, with a helm-your-own-launch day — the gentlest, flattest file, recommended as a first trip. Status: planned. - [Northern Ireland Expedition 07](https://landshipneb.com/northern-ireland.html): a 14-day campervan circuit of ~950–1,100 road miles plus two Cairnryan–Belfast sailings: Strangford Lough, the Mournes, Fermanagh, Derry and four Causeway Coast nights — the National Trust's masterclass route. Status: planned. - [Scotland: The Far North Expedition 08](https://landshipneb.com/far-north.html): a 10-day, ~1,300–1,500-mile campervan circuit to Ullapool, Assynt, Durness and Dunnet Head — the NC500's north loop done gently, completing what Expedition 01 began. Status: planned. - [The Peak District Expedition 09](https://landshipneb.com/peak-district.html): a 6-day short file — Chatsworth’s walled-garden club site, Dovedale, Eyam and the Great Ridge from Castleton, with the Winnats motorhome protocol and Red Route rules. - [South Downs & Seven Sisters Expedition 10](https://landshipneb.com/south-downs.html): a 4-day weekender — one Brighton club base, the Seven Sisters on foot, Alfriston’s first-ever National Trust house, Devil’s Dyke and Birling Gap, buses from the gate. - [Galloway & the Borders Expedition 11](https://landshipneb.com/galloway.html): a 7-day south-of-Scotland circuit — Luce Bay shore pitches, the Mull of Galloway, Kirkcudbright’s community site, a dark-sky sortie into the UK’s first Dark Sky Park, and Melrose Abbey from the pitch. - [Yorkshire Coast & Moors Expedition 12](https://landshipneb.com/yorkshire.html): a 7-day circuit — York on foot from a riverside pitch with the river-watch protocol, Castle Howard and NYMR steam from Slingsby, then Filey Brigg for Bempton’s seabird wall and Whitby’s 199 steps. - [Dorset & the Jurassic Coast Expedition 13](https://landshipneb.com/dorset.html): a 6-day two-base circuit — Corfe’s castle-wood club site, the Lulworth range-gate protocol and Tyneham, Arne’s ospreys and Brownsea’s red squirrels, then Charmouth fossils on a falling tide. - [Kent: The Garden Gate Expedition 14](https://landshipneb.com/kent.html): a 5-day two-base circuit — Canterbury by cycle path and Whitstable by the 1830 Crab & Winkle line, Dover Castle and the White Cliffs from a Downs club site, with the port-shadow protocol and Leeds Castle on the road home. - [The New Forest: First Family Trip Expedition 15](https://landshipneb.com/new-forest.html): a 3-day one-base shakedown — Hollands Wood with ponies through the pitches, the pony code, Bolderwood’s deer platform and Rhinefield’s tall trees on pram-grade trails; the archive’s recommended first trip with a baby. - [The Isle of Wight: First Sailing Expedition 16](https://landshipneb.com/wight.html): a 5-day island circuit with two sailings — Lymington–Yarmouth ferry doctrine, Grange Farm’s clifftop above the dinosaur coast, the Needles batteries, the Military Road, and the Osborne + Carisbrooke EH double from Adgestone’s pool site. - [The Shires of England Expedition 17](https://landshipneb.com/shires.html): a 14-day heartland grand tour on five club bases — the Malverns and Elgar’s hills, the Cotswolds with the honesty-box Rollright Stones and Chastleton, red kites over the Chilterns from Henley, the Ridgeway with Uffington and Wayland’s Smithy, Avebury, a booked dawn at Stonehenge, Lacock, Chedworth and Westonbirt — with the honeypot doctrine. - [Across England: The Mega Trip Expedition 18](https://landshipneb.com/england-mega.html): the first 21-day MEGA TRIP on six bases — Lincoln’s cathedral hill from a civic country park, Ludlow and the Marches with Stokesay, the Forest of Dean and Symonds Yat’s peregrines, the Mendips with Cheddar and Glastonbury, Exmoor’s dark-sky heart, and five nights on Dartmoor with the moor-gates firing-range protocol. - [Across Wales: The Mega Trip Expedition 19](https://landshipneb.com/wales-mega.html): a 21-day MEGA TRIP ringing Wales on eight bases — the Bannau dark-sky reserve and Pen y Fan, the Gower with the Worm’s Head tide window, four Pembrokeshire nights around the Skomer puffin landing (250-a-day cap, no Mondays), Cardigan Bay dolphins, Gigrin Farm’s red-kite feed, the Llŷn, Anglesey with South Stack and Newborough — finishing across the Pontcysyllte aqueduct. - [Across Scotland: The Mega Trip Expedition 20](https://landshipneb.com/scotland-mega.html): a 21-day MEGA TRIP with the CalMac gambit run four sailings deep — staging nights at Ayr and Oban, Arran with deer on the Lochranza pitches and the Claonaig exit, four Mull nights for Iona, Staffa and both eagles from the Shieling at Craignure, Glenmore under the Cairngorms with the reindeer herd and Loch Garten’s ospreys, Royal Deeside, Speyside’s honest dram, and the East Neuk of Fife. - [The Great Tour: Three Nations, Three Peaks Expedition 21](https://landshipneb.com/great-tour.html): a 21-day GREAT TOUR linking Yr Wyddfa (summited by rack railway, whole crew), Scafell Pike (fit-mode from the National Trust’s Wasdale campsite, 6.5m vehicle limit) and Ben Nevis (family-mode to the halfway lochan, fit-mode on the Mountain Track) — with Ribblesdale, Keswick’s ospreys and Loch Lomond’s east shore as joiners, five nights in Glen Nevis as the weather bank, and one honest line per peak. - [The Grand Quest: Four Nations + the Isle of Man Expedition 22](https://landshipneb.com/grand-quest.html): the archive’s 28-day summit — all four home nations plus the Isle of Man in one journey, stitched by the Steam Packet chain (five van sailings, two foot-boats): Conwy, five nights at Glen Wyllin for Snaefell’s four-kingdom summit, the Laxey Wheel and both Victorian railways, five Mourne nights at Tollymore with Slieve Donard and the Strangford ferry, the Trossachs with Loch Katrine’s steamship and Inchmahome, Edinburgh, Hadrian’s western Wall at Birdoswald and Vindolanda, and Durham with Beamish. - [UK membership access dashboard](https://landshipneb.com/journeys.html#access): what National Trust, English Heritage (with Cadw and Historic Environment Scotland reciprocals), RSPB, RHS, Forestry England and the two touring clubs actually cover on the road. ## Vehicle - [Swift Trekker X Automatic dossier](https://landshipneb.com/landship.html): owner specs for the 2025 model on the Ford Transit — 5.98 m long, 2.98 m high, 3,500 kg MTPLM, 370 kg payload, eight-speed automatic. ## Blog - [Field notes](https://landshipneb.com/blog.html): journey reports and touring lessons, added as the wheels turn. - [The 370 kg problem](https://landshipneb.com/payload-370.html): campervan payload explained — MTPLM, MRO conventions, the disappearing-margin arithmetic and the weighbridge doctrine, paired with the free payload calculator. - [How many nights off hook-up?](https://landshipneb.com/off-grid-days.html): the off-grid endurance maths — usable battery watt-hours, honest daily demand and what UK solar really returns, paired with the free off-grid calculator. - [National Trust vs English Heritage](https://landshipneb.com/nt-vs-eh.html): what each membership unlocked across eight planned expeditions, the Scotland/Wales/NI reciprocal rules, and a route-first decision framework. - [Inside the Trip Engine Room](https://landshipneb.com/trip-engine.html): how the free, browser-local expedition planner scores all twenty-two journey files against a six-question briefing — approach-hour honesty, the tier ladder, the ranked deck and the saved-plan Hangar. - [Choosing your expedition](https://landshipneb.com/which-expedition.html): the archive’s tier ladder from MINI TRIP to GRAND QUEST, what every file guarantees, and how to match days, driveway and season to the right route. - [Planning the Grand Quest](https://landshipneb.com/planning-the-grand-quest.html): the Steam Packet chain doctrine, the TT-fortnight trap, staging nights and kingdom paperwork behind the 28-day four-nations file. ## Policies - [Privacy & cookies](https://landshipneb.com/privacy.html): no cookies set by the site, Cloudflare-proxied hosting, Google Fonts and Maps embeds disclosed, AI crawlers welcome. - [Terms of use](https://landshipneb.com/terms.html): what you may do with the site — the tools and their output are yours, the archives are not for wholesale reproduction, crawlers are welcome, and every route is planned rather than driven. - [Frequently asked questions](https://landshipneb.com/faq.html): 28 answers on how the archive works, what the tools do, what is stored and what is not. - [Dark skies, the August 2026 eclipse and the Perseids](https://landshipneb.com/dark-skies.html): the 12 August 2026 partial eclipse from Britain, the moonless Perseid peak the same night, the UK dark-sky designations and which expedition files reach one. - [The British year, month by month](https://landshipneb.com/british-year.html): every month with daylight hours at 55N, sea and freshwater temperature, sunshine, school holidays and how many of the 354 Matrix entries are in season. June peaks at 281, January at 137. - [Where to go in the dead months](https://landshipneb.com/dead-months.html): winter campervanning in Britain. The 39 Matrix entries that exist November to February and not in summer, the British files ranked by winter wildlife retention, and what closes. - [How many days do you actually need?](https://landshipneb.com/how-long.html): every British file with its length, stated minimum, mileage and miles per day; what fits a weekend, a week or a fortnight; and how far a route compresses before it stops working. ## Europe A continental archive that sits alongside the British one without diluting it. 20 expedition files covering 441 days of route across 18 countries, and a separate Nature Matrix of 2333 entries with its own ladder. Every route is marked PLANNED - NOT YET DRIVEN and will stay so until it has been driven. - [Europe hub](https://landshipneb.com/eu.html): the twenty files, the roadmap and what is coming. - [The Europe Engine](https://landshipneb.com/eu-engine.html): free planner. Ranks all 20 files against your days, month, start point and remaining Schengen days; builds a day-by-day route; runs your own van profile against it. - [The Europe Matrix](https://landshipneb.com/eu-species.html): 2333 wildlife, landscape and season entries across 18 countries, each with its findable months and a rarity from common to rare. - [The continent guide](https://landshipneb.com/eu-continent.html): paperwork, tolls, crossings and what changes once you leave Britain. - [The access stack](https://landshipneb.com/eu-access.html): the national conservation and access bodies for all 18 countries, mapped role by role onto the British equivalents. - [The crossings](https://landshipneb.com/eu-crossing.html): every route that carries a motorhome off this island, with a 90/180 Schengen counter. - [Engine and Matrix guide](https://landshipneb.com/eu-engine-guide.html): how the planner ranks, what the Matrix is for, and which months are actually best. - [The European year, month by month](https://landshipneb.com/eu-year.html): every month with entries in season across 18 countries, which of the 20 files are at their best and which are impossible. Andalucia peaks in February; the Nordics in July. - [How long do you need for Europe?](https://landshipneb.com/eu-how-long.html): the Schengen 90/180 arithmetic. 413 Schengen days across the archive against a 90-day allowance, what one allowance buys, the two Irish files that cost nothing, and European pace against British. - [Southern winter](https://landshipneb.com/eu-winter.html): winter campervanning in southern Europe. The southern season curve does not invert (1.62x against the north 1.63x); what does is the file ratings. Almond blossom in January, the olive harvest, and the one file rated best in February. - [What’s new in Europe, and what’s new in the Matrix](https://landshipneb.com/eu-whats-new.html): release note — destination by country, computed daylight, sea temperature from 16 named anchors, calendar export, 72 medals, the month scrubber, the Continental Card, and a driving profile for all 441 day records. ### The expedition files - [E01 Ireland: The Gentle Crossing](https://landshipneb.com/eu-ireland.html): 14 days (minimum 9), demand 2 of 5, IE. - [E02 France: Normandy, Brittany and the Loire](https://landshipneb.com/eu-france.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 3 of 5, FR. - [E03 The Low Countries and the Rhine](https://landshipneb.com/eu-low-countries.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 3 of 5, NL, BE, DE. - [E04 The Nordic Quest: Denmark, Norway and Sweden](https://landshipneb.com/eu-nordics.html): 28 days (minimum 21), demand 5 of 5, DK, NO, SE. - [E05 Southern France: Provence, the Camargue and the Cévennes](https://landshipneb.com/eu-france-south.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 4 of 5, FR. - [E06 The Alps: Switzerland and Austria](https://landshipneb.com/eu-alps.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 5 of 5, CH, AT. - [E07 Northern Italy: the Lakes, the Dolomites and Tuscany](https://landshipneb.com/eu-italy-north.html): 28 days (minimum 21), demand 4 of 5, IT. - [E08 Iberia North: the Picos, Galicia and the Douro](https://landshipneb.com/eu-iberia-north.html): 28 days (minimum 21), demand 4 of 5, ES, PT. - [E09 Southern Germany: the Black Forest, Bavaria and the Danube](https://landshipneb.com/eu-germany-south.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 3 of 5, DE. - [E10 Central Europe: Poland, Czechia and Slovakia](https://landshipneb.com/eu-central.html): 28 days (minimum 21), demand 5 of 5, PL, CZ, SK. - [E11 Iberia South: Extremadura, Andalucía and the Algarve](https://landshipneb.com/eu-iberia-south.html): 28 days (minimum 21), demand 4 of 5, ES, PT. - [E12 France: the Atlantic Coast](https://landshipneb.com/eu-france-atlantic.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 3 of 5, FR. - [E13 France: the East — Champagne, Alsace, the Vosges and the Jura](https://landshipneb.com/eu-france-east.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 3 of 5, FR. - [E14 The Pyrenees: both slopes, sea to sea](https://landshipneb.com/eu-pyrenees.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 5 of 5, FR, ES. - [E15 Germany: the Wadden, the Baltic and the East](https://landshipneb.com/eu-germany-north.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 3 of 5, DE. - [E16 The Adriatic: Slovenia and Croatia](https://landshipneb.com/eu-adriatic.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 4 of 5, SI, HR. - [E17 Southern Italy: Abruzzo, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily](https://landshipneb.com/eu-italy-south.html): 28 days (minimum 21), demand 5 of 5, IT. - [E18 The Netherlands: Frisia, the Wadden and the New Land](https://landshipneb.com/eu-frisia.html): 14 days (minimum 10), demand 2 of 5, NL. - [E19 Corsica and Sardinia: the island file](https://landshipneb.com/eu-islands.html): 21 days (minimum 14), demand 4 of 5, FR, IT. - [E20 Ireland: the North-West, the Bogs and the Boyne](https://landshipneb.com/eu-ireland-north.html): 14 days (minimum 10), demand 3 of 5, IE.