Border Lands in Kirkenes
01/09/2025 The north east is where Norway has land borders with Finland and Russia. It’s not the land of high mountains and deep fjords, but is interesting in it’s own… Read more »
Category: Heritage
Heading into Nordland
23/08/2025 The next few days were forecast to continue to be drizzly, but we had a destination in mind for Sunday when the weather was due to improve, so we… Read more »
A Wet Day in Trondheim
21/08/2025 Trondheim currently holds the trophy for the most expensive stopover in Norway. I’m not complaining (much), it was completely our choice to park as close to the centre as… Read more »
Driving North to Orkanger
20/08/2025 We set off from our campsite heading a few kms on to Oppdal. We’d read that there is good mountain biking in the area. On the way I’d earmarked… Read more »
Via Ferrata Sjoa
17/08/2025 The next point of interest on my map was a via ferrata near Sjoa. We agreed that after two days of mountain biking we would see how our legs… Read more »
An Undignified End
27/04/2025 For our last couple of nights before catching our ferry home we decided we needed a break from city life. We scouted around for a campsite and ended up… Read more »
Tourist Dodging in Bruges
25/04/2025 After Ypres we decided to tick another city of our list. Bruges is often lauded as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, a popular city break destination…. Read more »
The Last Post
22/04/2025 Watching the Last Post in Ypres is one of those things that every motorhome traveller seems to do, but in our eight years of road trips we haven’t ever… Read more »
A Few Days near Luxembourg City
20/04/2025 After leaving Besançon we had another city in our sights for our journey home. Luxembourg City was to be another foray into Luxembourg for something other than cheap fuel…. Read more »
Scratching the Surface of Besançon
16/04/2025 After our waterfall walk in the Jura mountains, we dropped down to the city of Besançon where we planned to spend a couple of days. The aire in Besançon… Read more »
The Perils of Popularity
13/04/25 When I originally suggested visiting Annecy the weather was still hot and sunny and I had visions of a few days sitting by the lake relaxing, occasionally taking a… Read more »
The Power of Water in the Cogne Valley
12/04/25 We have visited the Aosta valley so many times, but there are still new things to do even if we stay in the same places. In this blog post… Read more »
A brief interlude in Conflans
21/03/2025 After our stay in Les Saisies we had some laundry to do. We left the resort in the mid afternoon following our walk and reversed our journey down the… Read more »
Vauban Forts and Gargouilles
.17/02/2025 Our journey to Briançon was a mere 17km through the other villages that serve the Serre Chevalier ski area. We decided that we definitely like Monêtiers best. The other… Read more »
Stirling Castle and Last Days in Scotland
06/12/2024 South to Stirling We took the A835 east to Inverness where we stopped for LPG. We were on this road over 5 weeks previously, climbing Ben Wyvis and watching… Read more »
Sango Sands and Smoo Cave
27/11/2024 It was time for me to do some more work so we planned the next stop to be on a campsite. Sango Sands Oasis Sango Sands Oasis campsite is… Read more »
Bettyhill and the Highland Clearances
23/11/2024 After visiting Dounreay we drove westwards along the A836. The views were becoming more desolate, this is the edge of the Flow Country. We really want to drive inland… Read more »
A Power Station and a Pub Stopover
22/11/2024 As we sailed towards the Scottish mainland we could see that there had been a lot more snow than the sprinkling we’d encountered on Orkney. Luckily for our plans,… Read more »
Orkney Part 5 – Last Days on the Mainland
21/11/2024 It always feels a bit awkward talking about the ‘Mainland’. Are we talking about Orkney Mainland or UK Mainland? This last blog entry for Orkney talks about our final… Read more »
Orkney Part 3 – An Interlude at Stenness
12/11/2024 When we got back from Westray we had originally hoped to get the ferry straight to Sanday. But there was no room for us until the following morning so… Read more »