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 »
Category: England
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 »
A Place for the Kayak
We are currently enjoying ourselves on our third trip of the summer, and I just realised that I cant blog about this trip until I’ve blogged about trip number two…. Read more »
A Surprise Celebration and Getting Back Out in Bertie
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 »
How Things Change
Wow! We are now more than half way through the year and hasn’t the world changed? Our original expectation of having a motorhome trip roughly once a month has not… Read more »
New Year in the Lake District
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 »
A Weekend Away…Not Quite As Planned
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 »
The End of Full Time Motorhome Living
Over three months ago I made my last post, and I have to apologise, the mundane sort of got in the way. I promised to update on living and working… Read more »
A Suprise Return to Work
Yesterday I signed my life away to ‘the man’. Or so it felt. In reality I have signed a three month employment contract and there weren’t any men involved in… Read more »
Exploring East Devon’s Lanes by Bike
11/06/19 – 28/06/19 There is nothing quite like an Ordnance Survey map when it comes to navigating your way around the UK, especially if you are a walker or cyclist…. Read more »
Hanging Around At Home
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 »
Making A Speedy Exit. Six Countries in 48 Hours
09/05/19 – 11/05/19 We were packing up and making ready to leave the campsite in Lienz. We had a route planned through Austria, taking maybe a week to take in… Read more »
Christmas in the UK
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 »
On the Way to France: Plans and Shopping Lists.
13/08/18 While we’ve been in the UK we’ve debated our travelling preferences – what do we really enjoy and what makes us stressed? What is the right balance of rest… Read more »
Just Before We Go
10/09/18 -12/09/18 It has been such a busy summer. Three months we have been back and yet I don’t know where the time has gone. It’s been wonderful to catch… Read more »
A Very Important Birthday
06/09/18 – 09/09/18 Feeling like we were on possibly the shortest tour of the UK’s market towns we returned to Taunton. More celebrating was on the cards as Nan’s 90th… Read more »
An Unexpected Journey
28/08/18 – 05/09/18 About 6 weeks ago we were on our way to Northumberland to spend a couple of weeks with Aaron and fiancé Kate, both of whom serve in… Read more »
Bank Holiday Fun
24/08/18 – 27/08/18 The weather had truly turned by the time August bank holiday weekend came around. Gone were the long sunny, unnaturally warm days. Welcome back to the typical… Read more »
We Passed Our MOT
15/08/18 – 23/08/18 We took Bertie back to Tedburn St Mary and the accommodating and helpful MC services to have various repairs done to get through the MOT. As well… Read more »
Two Descend on Dorset
08/08/18 – 14/08/18 Enid Blyton, author of the Famous Five books (amongst many others), was a great lover of the Dorset countryside, particularly the Isle of Purbeck and it’s main… Read more »