A Couple of Days in the Orlu Valley
20/09/18 – 21/09/18 We headed back downhill from the 3-Ax ski area to Ax-les-Thermes and parked in the same daytime parking spot as we did a couple of days ago…. Read more »
Category: Countries
Stretching our Legs
19/08/18 We feel refreshed after a good night’s sleep and wake to find that the skies are blue and any signs of the previous night’s thunder and rain have been… Read more »
Cooling Down and Moving Up
17/09/18 – 18/09/18 After looking at the weather forecast, where numbers in the thirties were far too prevalent, we decided that we had to get to a higher altitude as… Read more »
A Cycle Round the Lac de Saint-Pardoux
15/09/18 – 16/09/18 We spent the next day driving and with a couple of hundred more miles under our belts and the temperatures slowly rising into the low thirties we… Read more »
Walls and Water Lilies
14/09/18 We had arrived in France at dusk, and made our way to the aire in Montreuil. We don’t normally drive in the dark and the combination of mostly unlit… 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 »
Another 40th Birthday
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 »
A Visit to Cragside and a Long Journey South
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 »
Getting Around near Beadnell
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 »
Sushi lessons in Northumberland
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 »
Steering in the Wrong Direction
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 »
Clubbing in the UK
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 »
No More Wet Trainers
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 »
Home. Are we there yet?
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 »