Who we are
Two people, one small home, and a very wide world.
We’re David and Diane. Somewhere in our forties we swapped a house we rattled around in for eight square metres we actually use — and started paying attention.
Our story
We didn’t set out to become nomads. We set out to declutter a spare room, and somewhere between the third car-boot sale and the realisation that neither of us missed any of it, the plan quietly changed shape.
Now home is a van, the neighbours change most nights, and the commute is whatever road looks most interesting at breakfast. We cook small, we travel slowly, and we’ve never once regretted leaving the good crockery behind.
The name came later. “New Nomads” isn’t about escaping — it’s about carrying less so you notice more. Our home is small on purpose. Its windows, it turns out, are enormous.
01
Carry less
Every object earns its place, or it goes to the next car-boot sale. Space is the one luxury we protect.
02
Go slowly
The motorway gets you there. The B-road lets you arrive. We almost always choose the B-road.
03
Live deliberately
Thoreau’s idea, our postcode. We’d rather do a few things fully than everything by halves.