Watched Mark Ellis on telly tonight interviewing Fran from the Gypsy Travellers. The series covers the mobile lifestyle of circuses and travelling fairs. Good to see some of the old classics on telly for a change (not you Fran, the trucks and busses Heres a link to the video Makes me wannabe a housetrucker…

Hi everyone, My name is Simon. I live in the UK in a 7.5 tonne MAN lorry, converted to live in. I live on Traveller sites in the south west of England, and travel doing festival shows in the summer. In the winter I study Gypsy & Traveller law in the UK. I’m interested in [...]

I’ve uploaded some new images of housetrucks from the Gypsy fair that was in Wellington several weekends ago, and also some pohotos from the Gypsy travellers. Have a squizz at the photo albums from the navigation menu. I have a stack load more that I’ll pop up soon.

The Gypsytravellers will be at the Napier foreshore on the 14th and 15th Feb Havelock North on the 21st and 22nd Feb and Wairoa on the 28th Feb and the 1st of March. We are also looking for stallholders with handcrafts: ie leatherwork or woodwork or similiar would be fab. Cheers Fran

The NZ Gypsy Travellers will be in Avalon this weekend 31 Jan – 1 Feb. Make sure you pop on down and check out the wares, including some nice Danish Donuts

Grabbed this from the forum, figured it is important enough to add to the front page. Thanks for the update Fran: There are a few people in Welly at the moment trying to rebook the venues Tinkers and Traders management cancelled as they have decided to put the group out to grass till further notice. [...]