Winter Weather in Sommarøy
24/09/2025 We drove from Hella to Sommarøy. We’d been looking forward to visiting this tiny island archipelago with it’s stunning white sand beaches. But our swimming and fishing plans were… Read more »
Category: Work
Taking Stock in Olderdalen
17/09/2025 Olderdalen is a village on the edge of the Lyngenfjord. From Olderdalen a ferry crosses the fjord to the Lyngen peninsular with it’s majestic glacier clad mountains. We drove… Read more »
An Extended Stay in Le Monêtiers les Bains
15/02/2025 It seems like ages since we arrived in the aire at Le Monêtiers les Bains. We paid to stay for five nights and then we extended for a further… Read more »
A Baptism of Fire, or Water?
06/02/25 Is it slightly mad to embark on a new three month trip in the Alps in winter with a new van? Hopefully not. Something could go wrong, but that’s… 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 »
Making Plans and Heading North
30/10/2024 We had been watching the weather forecast for a little while. Being British we are obsessed with the weather anyway, but this was a level above the usual, with… Read more »
A Few Days in Findhorn
23/10/24 It was time for work again so we made our way to Findhorn for three nights on the campsite. They were doing a good deal for pitches in the… Read more »
Shingle banks of the Spey
17/10/24 Yet again it was time for work. These couple of days a week come so quickly. I cant believe that I actually managed to do a ‘normal’ working week…. Read more »
A Tale of Two Stately Homes
09/10/24 A couple of days work were looming on the horizon and so we scouted out a nearby campsite. Nothing really filled us with a great deal of enthusiasm so… Read more »
Stones and Stuff in Forfar
01/10/2024 One of the things I have decided about working from the van is that I want to be on hook up and stationary on the days I’m working. The… Read more »
Mixing with the Rich Kids
25/09/24 A work interlude We passed a couple of days in peace and quiet at Drumcarro Farm campsite, a small inland CL with a friendly owner, EHU and excellent 4G… Read more »
Sun and Sea at Silver Sands
17/09/24 We always need an antidote after a city. Something different enough to allow us to relax. First of all I had to do a half day’s work. We stayed… Read more »
Ready to be a Digital Nomad?
06/09/24 Hello again. It’s been a while. It’s not to that we’ve been doing nothing, but we haven’t been touring around so not a huge amount of motorhome activity to… Read more »
A Last Minute Dash to the Alps
27/11/2023 When we got back from Switzerland in October I’d decided to look for work. Some of our income is generated through a rental property (our old home) and still… Read more »
A Suprise Return to Work
Yesterday I signed my life away to ‘the man’. Or so it felt. In reality I have signed a three month employment contract and there weren’t any men involved in… Read more »
Not going back?
On Maundy Thursday I finally left my job. I’ve been working from home for the last few months since the Exeter office shut down and spending my last day on… Read more »