
The Big Cheese?
18/04/2023 Getting to Gruyères We had earmarked Gruyères as an appropriate stopover in Switzerland. We were only passing through so it had to be a short detour from the route… Read more »
18/04/2023 Getting to Gruyères We had earmarked Gruyères as an appropriate stopover in Switzerland. We were only passing through so it had to be a short detour from the route… Read more »
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 »
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 »
21/11/18 When we left the parking area at La Selva there was already someone waiting to take our spot. I really hope the local community gain something from having the… Read more »
06/10/18 – 08/10/18 When looking at the weather forecast we tend to err on the side of optimism. We check a couple of different sites and apps; the BBC, the… Read more »
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 »
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 »
26/04/18 – 28/04/18 We chose Camping Torre Sabea as our campsite to give us time and space to solve our mosquito problem. We ended up staying for three nights at… Read more »
24/04/18 Driving for pleasure is not something we’re accustomed to. We don’t really spend much time driving for the enjoyment of it. In Italy it’s even harder to enjoy a… Read more »
01/04/18 – 02/04/18 We settled into our campsite at Lago Arvo waiting for the predicted snow to arrive. The temperature got gradually colder and the snow started to fall in… Read more »
19/03/18 As we drove into Tropea, passing a number of vegetable selling stalls on the side of the road, I finally remembered why I recognised the name. We had recently… Read more »
10/03/18 We stayed in Marina di Camerota for two very different nights. On Friday night we were joined by a couple of Italian motorhomes in the big carpark behind the… Read more »
09/03/18 We had spent the night parked outside the archaeological site of Velia-Elea (Velia – the Roman name, Elea the earlier Greek name), another Magna Graecia settlement. A brief walk… Read more »
07/03/18 – 08/03/18 We drove down the road to Agropoli, the same road we had driven the day before in the other direction. A parking spot close to the coast… Read more »
17/11/17 – 18/11/17 On the morning of the 17th we woke up in the aire at Esposende, looked around and decided that we would move on. Sometimes we just… Read more »
08/11/17 – 10/11/17 We had a bit of a lazy day on 8th November. For some reason we just couldn’t get moving and our plans for a bike ride ended… Read more »
28/10/17 Further south, still enveloped by the pine forests of the Landes region of France, is a purpose built resort with the rather long name of Vieux-Boucau-Les-Bains. Part of it’s… Read more »
The forecast was for two days of rain, but then some improvement. We decided to sit out the rain in Snowdonia, and chose to stay in Betws-Y-Coed, tourist hot spot and… Read more »
We needed to make a decision for the next stage of our journey – stick to the coast on the Lleyn Peninsula or spend some time in the mountains of Snowdonia…. Read more »