Journey to the Alps (Again)
22/08/2026 We were heading off to France on a Friday morning. Our night with friends on Thursday evening before had been very restrained so that we could get off nice… Read more »
Category: England
August 2026 – Finally Moving
In August things finally started moving and we felt able to start making some plans. Selling Our Flat Our buyer had started to get very frustrated and was pushing her… Read more »
July 2026 – A Long Dry Summer
July would turn out to be scorching hot down here in the south, more worryingly it continued to be very dry, the grass had turned yellow and leaves on trees… Read more »
Heatwaves in June 2026
June. The start of the summer heatwaves of 2026. I hope this is an aberration as we are really not capable of enduring summers like this on a regular basis…. Read more »
Spring in the UK – May 2026
A field near Crackington Haven At the beginning of May our peaceful farmer’s field was invaded by the people who were turning up for the Land Rover event. It was… Read more »
A False Start – the Tale of a Breakdown
05/02/2026 This is a tale of a motorhome breakdown. It is somewhat cathartic. I want to get it written down so that I can see in hindsight whether it was… Read more »
A Baptism of Fire, or Water?
06/02/25 Is it slightly mad to embark on a new three month trip in the Alps in winter with a new van? Hopefully not. Something could go wrong, but that’s… Read more »
Ready to be a Digital Nomad?
06/09/24 Hello again. It’s been a while. It’s not to that we’ve been doing nothing, but we haven’t been touring around so not a huge amount of motorhome activity to… Read more »
Driving Home for Christmas
16/12/2023 With Christmas fast approaching it was time for us to return home. We had a long drive ahead of us, re-tracing our steps back through the Gran San Bernardo… Read more »
Off we go again
29/08/23 Our autumn plans had been inspired by our quick visit to Switzerland earlier this year. This time we wanted to spend a few weeks in Switzerland with possibly some… Read more »
Walking Lady Anne’s Way by Motorhome
During the last two weeks of June I walked a100 mile long distance footpath; Lady Anne’s Way with my Mum and her dog, Susan. We had been planning this… Read more »
Exmoor Interlude
11/06/2023 After our stint in Wales we had returned to Taunton for some family time and my Brother in Law’s 50th Birthday. We had a few days to kill between… Read more »
It started with a Landrover Weekend
Planning, planning, planning. I love a bit of planning! Rarely is there any time when I’m not planning what may be our next adventure. Even before we went skiing we… Read more »
A fishing trip to Mousehole
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 »
Return to Home Base
26/04/2023 Our channel tunnel journey home was almost the mirror image of our journey out. We arrived early enough to be offered an earlier tunnel crossing but ended up departing… Read more »
Run to the Alps
09/03/2023 It’s been a long time since Bertie had a big adventure! When we returned from our two years of travel in 2019 we aimed for another five years of… Read more »
Reasons to visit Brean?
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 »
Perranporth Party
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 »
A Week in Glen Nevis
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 »