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 »
Category: England
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 »
Plan B in Pickering
Two weeks off! The thought of an extended break has been buoying us up through lockdown and it finally felt as though it was going to happen. Vaccine roll out… Read more »
Coastal Walking around Watergate Bay
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 »
A Post-Lockdown Family Reunion
A family catch up Our first trip away in Bertie this year was a scant 15 miles from home. Oakdown Holiday Park is a campsite where Mum and Dad keep… Read more »
The Peak District – The Final Campsite
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 »
Peak District Part 2
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 »
A Pint, a Peregrine and no Trespassing
As we head into another period of lock down it seemed like an opportunity to look back on our last full week of freedom in Bertie. We had booked a… Read more »
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 »