Marmots in the Saas Valley
24/09/2023 South of the Rhone Valley, starting near the town of Visp, is a long valley that forks in two as it heads towards Italy. In one branch of this… Read more »
Category: Wildlife
A Journey to the Aletsch Arena
23/09/2023 We were still in Brig at Camping Geshina, it was another grey day but we were really keen to get up into the Aletsch Arena and so crossed our… Read more »
Watching the Queens in the Val d’Anniviers
15/09/2023 The Val d’Anniviers first came to our attention when we were full timing in our motorhome. Esther and Dan in their blog talked about the way the local community… Read more »
The Highest Gravity Dam in the World
13/09/2023 Our drive to our next stop was a pretty arduous one. We were heading into the Val d’Herens. It’s a pretty motorhome unfriendly valley with a website that says… Read more »
Finding the Elan Valley
30/06/2023 The Elan Valley. Why had we never heard about this before? When we mentioned to our Welsh friends that we were heading to mid Wales they immediately said ‘I… Read more »
A Brief Stop in Saarland
22/04/2023 Our journey back to the UK was feeling like a second holiday. Having tourist attractions to look forward to visiting definitely improves the journey home. Next stop was to… Read more »
Castles and Vineyards in the Alsace
20/04/2023 Leaving Gruyeres we continued on Swiss roads, making sure we registered on the Via app again so that we were road legal. The route took us through the Jura… Read more »
Chamois – the Village you cannot reach by Car
13/04/23 A gassy refill It was gas that forced us away from Cervinia. The LPG that we use to fuel our fridge, hot water and heating was on the verge… Read more »
The Roads – More or Less – Travelled
We have spent a lot of holidays in Scotland. We particularly love the west coast ‘where the mountains meet the sea’ and have spent many pre-motorhome holidays enjoying the mountains… Read more »
The Good and the Bad of Shoulder Season
26/05/19 – 29/05/19 Travelling in the mountains during ‘shoulder season’ can sometimes be highly frustrating. As the snow recedes, it leaves behind the debris of autumn storms and winter snowfall…. 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 »
Walks Around Espot and the Estany de Sant Maurici
09/11/18 – 10/11/18 When planning on leaving Andorra we had been trying to work out what next. Truth to tell we hadn’t been chased away from the mountains as soon… Read more »
Queralbs and Nuria. Snow, Water and an Unexpected Train Journey
31/10/18 -02/11/18 The last day of October was rather rainy and unpleasant. We drove to Ripoll, which is quite a large town for the area, and did some supermarket shopping…. Read more »
Heading Into Spain: Gothic Bridges and Pyrenean Chamois
29/10/18 – 30/10/18 We weren’t really sure what to expect from the Spanish Pyrenees. The French side of the mountains seems much more talked about in the motorhoming world, but… Read more »
Snowy Border Crossings at the Hospice de France
14/10/18 – 16/10/18 We had a fixed date in the diary for the coming weekend, a rugby match in the town of Castres. Although we’d already been to Bagneres de… Read more »
Thwarted at 3000m
11/10/18 While here in Gavarnie I wanted to tackle one of the easier 3000m peaks of the Pyrenees. The Pic du Taillon stands as the highest mountain of the Cirque… Read more »
Aulus-les-Bains and the Cascade d’Ars
27/09/18 – 29/09/18 After two weeks of sweaty walking and cycling we needed to do some washing. A bit of google maps investigation revealed that our closest launderette was at… Read more »
Not Quite in Andorra
24/09/18 – 26/09/18 We woke up on the top of the Col de Pailheres in thick fog, we could barely see anything; a bit of a concern as we wanted… 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 »
Gran Paradiso Part 2: Ibex on the Slopes of the Big One
07/06/18 – 10/06/18 These blog posts may get a bit samey…visit a valley in the Aosta region, cycle a bit, walk a bit, see some marmots etc etc. if they… Read more »