A new lid for Bertie
02/06/2023 A new lid Back in March, when we were in France and Bertie was covered in snow, we had a small incident with poor Bertie’s lid. The clear dome… Read more »
02/06/2023 A new lid Back in March, when we were in France and Bertie was covered in snow, we had a small incident with poor Bertie’s lid. The clear dome… Read more »
18/05/2023 We hadn’t been planning a trip in the motorhome until the end of May, but Paul was very keen to go deep sea fishing, something he used to do… Read more »
23/04/2023 Our fuel tank was running dry and we needed to fill it up with the cheap stuff as soon as we crossed the border between Germany and Luxembourg. Then… Read more »
22/04/2023 Our journey back to the UK was feeling like a second holiday. Having tourist attractions to look forward to visiting definitely improves the journey home. Next stop was to… Read more »
20/04/2023 Leaving Gruyeres we continued on Swiss roads, making sure we registered on the Via app again so that we were road legal. The route took us through the Jura… Read more »
18/04/2023 Getting to Gruyères We had earmarked Gruyères as an appropriate stopover in Switzerland. We were only passing through so it had to be a short detour from the route… Read more »
15th April Leaving Antey-Saint-Andre We packed up Bertie and used the services in Antey-Saint-Andre before moving further up the valley. The services only had the one tap with a short… Read more »
13/04/23 A gassy refill It was gas that forced us away from Cervinia. The LPG that we use to fuel our fridge, hot water and heating was on the verge… Read more »
08/04/2023 Getting Busy There had been a handful of people in the sosta when we arrived, but things gradually got busier until we found ourselves surrounded by over 40 motorhomes…. Read more »
04/04/23 This is a story of two separate days in the same location, separated by a week in Cervinia (about which I will post, it just made sense to bundle… Read more »
01/04/23 We were on a quest to find new things to do in the Aosta Valley. La Thuile was a good start but it was time to move on. The… Read more »
30/03/2023 It was time to move on from Samoens and from France, heading East to Italy where we expect to spend the remainder of our skiing time. First, a shopping… Read more »
23/03/2023 Skiing has always been a bit of a family pastime. Paul and Aaron’s first experience of skiing was when Paul’s Dad generously paid for the whole family to go… Read more »
We’d had plans for the August bank holiday weekend, but at the last minute they were cancelled. Good old Covid again. So we had to scrabble around for somewhere that… Read more »
As I write this it’s already 2022 and getting harder and harder to remember what we were doing in the summer of 2021. Luckily we use a diary to remind… Read more »
Fort William is not the most prepossessing town, and our memories of it are somewhat tainted by the fact we almost always visit in poor weather when the grey wet… Read more »
We have spent a lot of holidays in Scotland. We particularly love the west coast ‘where the mountains meet the sea’ and have spent many pre-motorhome holidays enjoying the mountains… Read more »
When we went into lockdown in January we immediately started thinking about what we would do when lockdown lifted. Some people may take the opposite approach and decide that there… Read more »
Staying in multiple locations has the advantage of making a trip seem longer. It’s also a welcome reminder of the time we spent full-time touring; moving slow short distances from… Read more »
Continuing Our Peak District Adventures From our campsite in Hayfield we needed to make our way to Hope in the Edale valley and the second leg of our Peak District… Read more »