
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 »
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 »
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 »
31/07/18 – 07/08/18 We still had a few mundane activities to take care of, a trip to the dentist for both of us (no work required – phew), a trip… Read more »
29/07/18 -30/07/18 For our final weekend in Northumberland we moved again, this time to a newly opened Temporary Holiday Site in Alnwick. This THS was quite different to the one… Read more »
23/07/18 – 27/07/18 I have always been a fan of public transport. I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my late twenties, and that was more out of… Read more »
19/07/18 – 22/07/18 It has been seven months since we last saw our son Aaron, when he came out to visit us in Spain just before Christmas. Since then he… Read more »
16/07/18 – 18/07/18 A long time ago, in a land far far away (well, Spain) we had a bit of an issue with our steering. When adjusting our tracking the… Read more »
When we first got Bertie we joined both of the main clubs in the UK – The Caravan and Motorhome Club (CMC) and the Camping and Caravanning Club (CCC). We… Read more »
09/07/18 – 15/07/18 After our time in Taunton we picked up Bertie from storage and took the short drive to Exmouth, settling ourselves on a good value campsite with fantastic… Read more »
03/07/18 – 08/07/18 Our sensation of returning home when we were on the ferry back to the UK was mostly the anticipation of the familiar (we had two KFC meals… Read more »
28/06/18 – 02/07/18 Another Birthday celebration – this time a 40th Birthday for good friend Stephen. We rented a large house in the Somerset village of Waterrow where we barbequed,… Read more »
25/06/18 – 27/06/18 In September my Nan will turn 90. As an advance birthday treat we took her away for a short break to Dorset. A trip in Bertie would… Read more »
22/06/18 – 24/06/18 On our first night back in Taunton we stayed on a local campsite. Tanpit’s Farm is our favourite campsite near Taunton. It’s in a great location on… Read more »
21/06/18 Our drive from Dover to Somerset was not a particularly long one, but by the time we got to Reading we were already shattered, mostly because of the large… Read more »
20/06/18 We stayed in the motorhome aire at Bergues the night before our Ferry. The aire here has no facilities but is large and popular. It sits just outside the… Read more »
19/10/17 I’m sure that, to some people, the journey through the Channel Tunnel is a boring everyday activity, but for us there was some excitement as we prepared to do… Read more »
17/10/17 – 18/10/17 The next couple of days were spent preparing for our journey under the sea. Under the eerie light of a sallow sky and umber sun, a product of… Read more »
13/10/17 – 16/10/17 On the way south we took a small detour around the bottom of the M25 to allow us to visit friends and family who live in South… Read more »
11/10/17-12/10/17 We moved from our overnight parking spot to the National Trust parking at Dunwich Heath ready for a stroll around the heath. The heath to the north and inland was… Read more »
7/10/17 – 10/10/17 Aaron’s Graduation was a punctuation mark in our journey, the event that would free us up to travel overseas. But it wasn’t really a full stop, more of… Read more »