Walls and Water Lilies
14/09/18 We had arrived in France at dusk, and made our way to the aire in Montreuil. We don’t normally drive in the dark and the combination of mostly unlit… Read more »
Category: Heritage
Another 40th Birthday
31/07/18 – 07/08/18 We still had a few mundane activities to take care of, a trip to the dentist for both of us (no work required – phew), a trip… Read more »
A Visit to Cragside and a Long Journey South
29/07/18 -30/07/18 For our final weekend in Northumberland we moved again, this time to a newly opened Temporary Holiday Site in Alnwick. This THS was quite different to the one… Read more »
A Midsummer’s Night and Day
21/06/18 Our drive from Dover to Somerset was not a particularly long one, but by the time we got to Reading we were already shattered, mostly because of the large… Read more »
Back to the UK
20/06/18 We stayed in the motorhome aire at Bergues the night before our Ferry. The aire here has no facilities but is large and popular. It sits just outside the… Read more »
Operation Dynamo
18/06/18 – 19/06/18 We rumbled along the smaller N and D roads of France towards the coast, passing by many signposts pointing to First and Second World War memorials. It… Read more »
Champagne For Everyone
17/06/18 I’ve mentioned before that my French geography is not great, so it came as a bit of a surprise to me when I realised that we were on the… Read more »
The Great Glass Elevator to the Alps
27/05/18 We left the large sosta in Celle Ligure on the Sunday morning, along with many other Italian vans who had been weekending there. Before we departed Paul did his… Read more »
A Whistle Stop Tour of Florence
23/05/18 Florence is on many people’s ‘must do’ lists for Italy. It hadn’t made it to the top of our list on the way south, when we visited Pisa and… Read more »
Back in Tuscany
22/05/18 After the Monte Sibillini we were planning to head for the Apuan Alps, a small offshoot of the Apennines that sits behind the coast of northern Tuscany. It was… Read more »
An Unexpected Stop in Civitella del Tronto
16/05/18 North of the Gran Sasso mountains is the Monti della Laga area. The two mountainous areas form one national park but are very different in nature. The sharp limestone… Read more »
A City under Reconstruction
08/05/18 Between the Majella national park and our next stop in the Gran Sasso national park we decided to stop in L’Aquila. Guidebooks have little to say about L’Aquila at… Read more »
Bones and Birds in Otranto
23/04/18 We left our lovely campsite to head a very short distance to Otranto, We had one of those starts where we just couldn’t settle. There is a lot of… Read more »
Golden Stone and a Long History
18/04/18 Lecce is a golden city, famed for it’s soft Lecce stone that has allowed master crafters to create ornate baroque masterpieces on all it’s glowing buildings. The stone is… Read more »
Finding Feral Trulli
13/04/18 – 15/04/18 The Valle d’Itria is a wide shallow depression that runs from north-west to south-east through the limestone heart of Puglia, roughly between the latitudes of Bari and… Read more »
Troglodyte Living in Matera
05/04/18 – 07/04/17 Matera; a city soon to be European Capital of Culture (poor Plovdiv is sharing the accolade in 2019 but seems likely to be overshadowed), famed for it’s… Read more »
A Brief Trip to Some More Greek Ruins
05/04/18 We left our sosta by the sea and headed along the comfortable main road – the SS106 – on our way to Matera. Following our trip to Paestum we… Read more »
Stuck on a Rock
29/03/18 Our next stop was Le Castella, known – strangely enough – for it’s castle that sits on a spur of land connected to the mainland by a narrow land… Read more »
A Small Town with a Big Cathederal
26/03/18 – 27/03/18 After being on the coast for a while we decided to head inland. The town of Gerace was chosen mostly because of it’s location rather than any… Read more »
The Disappearing Roads of Bruzzano
24/03/18 – 25/03/18 We had ended up here – near the village of Canalello and Ferruzzano station – unexpectedly so we had no plans and knew nothing about the area…. Read more »