Why Not? Literary connections?
Moonfleet, by J.M. Faulkner, was a favourite book of mine when I was young. I remember the cover of the edition from my bookshelves, the Puffin Classic edition with mysteriously… Read more »
Moonfleet, by J.M. Faulkner, was a favourite book of mine when I was young. I remember the cover of the edition from my bookshelves, the Puffin Classic edition with mysteriously… Read more »
As soon as we got a sniff that campsites might be allowed to open we started thinking about getting away in Bertie. Although neither of us felt any trepidation about… Read more »
Back in October I was missing the mountains and looking for a way we could find some altitude. Without the freedom of the last two years we’re constrained by work,… Read more »
Since moving into our flat our weekends have been engaged in moving stuff around, collecting belongings from our storage unit and from the loft in our rental property and transporting… Read more »
12/05/19 – 10/06/19 We are currently nestled into a spot on a campsite in Exmouth awaiting parts to repair Bertie. Bertie will not be moved while we wait and our… Read more »
05/05/19 – 07/05/19 We had reached the conclusion that the Dolomites were rather expensive for motorhome travel. Often we hear people complaining about the cost of travelling in Italy and… Read more »
29/04/19 – 01/05/19 With a couple of unsuccessful mountain excursions under our belts we thought it was time to take a new approach and visit somewhere a little busier and… Read more »
24/04/19 – 25/04/19 We woke up to a rainy day and a forecast of 24 hours more rain to come. However a bright ray of sunshine appeared in the forecast… Read more »
25/03/19 – 28/03/19 We were in St-Gervais-les-Bains, not because we had any particular plans, but because I was feeling under the weather and we wanted somewhere free and warm (ie… Read more »
22/03/19 – 24/03/19 The forecast for the weekend was warm, in the mid teens during the day and only slipping down to about -2 in the cold hours of the… Read more »
12/03/19 – 17/03/19 Montchavin and Les Coches are two villages sitting almost on top of each other at the eastern extremities of La Plagne resort and very close to the… Read more »
24/02/19 The Verdon Gorge is, of course, the main event in this area. We had walked at one end of the gorge, where the river debouches into the Lac du… Read more »
20/02/19 – 21/02/19 With the sun still shining brightly we moved on from our spot near the lake. We wanted to walk in the area at the mouth of the… Read more »
23/01/19 – 26/01/19 We woke up in Belgium on Wednesday morning, having had a peaceful night’s sleep in this quiet village. The only disturbance had been the man collecting our… Read more »
19/12/18 – 21/01/19 As I press the ‘Publish’ button on this blog post I am sitting in a motorhome aire near Wissant. Yes, this post is going to summarise a… Read more »
16/12/18 – 17/12/18 When we think of white cliffs it is of course Dover that springs to mind, and probably bluebirds and Dame Vera Lynn. Until we did a bit… Read more »
13/12/18 – 14/12/18 As we sat and scarfed our eclairs in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, we decided that we would head to Normandy for our final few days in France before our ferry… Read more »
11/12/18 – 12/12/18 Rocamadour is one of those ‘must see’ tourist destinations in France. Most lists of ‘best places to go’, ‘most dramatic destination’ etc include this vertical town that… Read more »
09/12/18 – 10/12/18 We spent Sunday driving north through Spain. We had a destination in mind, but sometimes life throws us a little disappointment. We were almost retracing our steps… Read more »
04/12/18 We were still heading north and fancied a walk in the Serra d’Irta natural park. This area of hills and coast is between Peniscola and Alcossebre and we’d walked… Read more »