Skiing Vaujany and Alpe d’Huez
29/01/19 – 07/02/19 Today we finally left Vaujany, it has been somewhere we have found very easy to stay, lulled by the routine of our days. Skiing days involve popping… Read more »
Category: Countries
Shovelling Snow at Vaujany Aire
27/01/19 – 28/01/19 The sun came out for our final drive to the Alps, a welcome change from the recent grey days, it warmed and cheered us as we drove… Read more »
A Three Country Journey to the Alps
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 »
Which Way Now?
22/01/19 After our ferry crossing we had made our way to a farm based aire just outside Wissant. Ferme de l’Horloge provides motorhome parking in three locations, and we parked… 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 »
Driving Home for Christmas
18/12/18 We left Le Treport as the sun rose, which wasn’t as early as it sounds given that the shortest day was quickly approaching. Our ferry was booked for 11:35… Read more »
The White Cliffs of France
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 »
Cheesy Neufchatel
15/12/18 We left Honfleur when the electricity was turned off and made our way onwards to somewhere we hoped we would find electricity. We ended up slightly inland at Neufchatel-en-Bray… Read more »
A Wander Around Honfleur
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 »
Visiting the Pilgrimage Town of Rocamadour
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 »
A Long Drive to a Border Town
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 »
A Final Stop at the Seaside
07/12/18 – 08/12/18 We could have been accused of having no imagination as we trundled back to the Castell Saint Jordi. With a colder spell of weather approaching we wanted… Read more »
The Ebro Delta – Birds, Sunsets and Cycling
05/12/18 – 06/12/18 When you look at the Delta de l’Ebre (if you are Catalan – Delta del Ebro if you are Spanish) on the map it looks like a… Read more »
A Campanille and a Castle
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 »
The Kayak Makes an Appearance
03/12/18 Wow, it’s been such a busy Christmas and tonight is the first time I’ve sat down in the van to do some blogging. I cant believe I’ve let it… Read more »
A Rocky Ridge in the Desierto de las Palmas
02/12/18 Inland from Benicassim and Castellon is a small area of hills that had been calling to us each time we visited. A quick google search showed that the natural… Read more »
Retracing Our Steps
30/12/18 – 01/12/18 It was hard to believe it was December already, the weather had turned positively balmy and only the short days hinted at the season. Because it was… Read more »
Into the City of Valencia
28/11/18 – 29/11/18 Valencia. For a few days we’d been considering it as our terminus for this trip. The furthest point south before we start heading back to the UK. We… Read more »
Segorbe: Waterfountains and Waterfalls
We left Castellon to head inland to get bit of variety. Our initial destination was Sagunto. I wanted to visit Sagunto castle, the remains of a Roman fortress topped… Read more »
Beach Time -Three Contrasting Coastal Loactions
22/11/18 – 25/11/18 If there’s one thing we have realised on our travels so far it’s that beach locations can offer so much and deliver so little. It has, I… Read more »