Back to the Aletsch
29/09/2023 After our lovely stay in the Saastal we needed to move on. We only had a couple of weeks before we needed to get home and had to pick… Read more »
Tag: hiking
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 »
Satisfaction in Zinal
17/09/2023 When we got up to Zinal on Sunday afternoon it was still bustling with weekend visitors. Something about the village immediately made us feel as though we were going… Read more »
An Idyllic Swimming Spot at Lac Retaud
08/09/2023 We’d had enough. Enough sun and heat. We needed a way to escape. Without many options to avoid the heat we realised the only way we could cool down… Read more »
Walking Lady Anne’s Way by Motorhome
During the last two weeks of June I walked a100 mile long distance footpath; Lady Anne’s Way with my Mum and her dog, Susan. We had been planning this… Read more »
A fishing trip to Mousehole
18/05/2023 We hadn’t been planning a trip in the motorhome until the end of May, but Paul was very keen to go deep sea fishing, something he used to do… 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 »
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 »
Closing Weekend in Valtournenche
15th April Leaving Antey-Saint-Andre We packed up Bertie and used the services in Antey-Saint-Andre before moving further up the valley. The services only had the one tap with a short… 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 »
Beyond the sosta and the supermarket
04/04/23 This is a story of two separate days in the same location, separated by a week in Cervinia (about which I will post, it just made sense to bundle… Read more »
A Family Week in the Grand Massif
23/03/2023 Skiing has always been a bit of a family pastime. Paul and Aaron’s first experience of skiing was when Paul’s Dad generously paid for the whole family to go… Read more »
Perranporth Party
As I write this it’s already 2022 and getting harder and harder to remember what we were doing in the summer of 2021. Luckily we use a diary to remind… Read more »
A Week in Glen Nevis
Fort William is not the most prepossessing town, and our memories of it are somewhat tainted by the fact we almost always visit in poor weather when the grey wet… Read more »
Coastal Walking around Watergate Bay
When we went into lockdown in January we immediately started thinking about what we would do when lockdown lifted. Some people may take the opposite approach and decide that there… Read more »
A Post-Lockdown Family Reunion
A family catch up Our first trip away in Bertie this year was a scant 15 miles from home. Oakdown Holiday Park is a campsite where Mum and Dad keep… Read more »
The Peak District – The Final Campsite
Staying in multiple locations has the advantage of making a trip seem longer. It’s also a welcome reminder of the time we spent full-time touring; moving slow short distances from… Read more »
Peak District Part 2
Continuing Our Peak District Adventures From our campsite in Hayfield we needed to make our way to Hope in the Edale valley and the second leg of our Peak District… Read more »
A Pint, a Peregrine and no Trespassing
As we head into another period of lock down it seemed like an opportunity to look back on our last full week of freedom in Bertie. We had booked a… Read more »
New Year in the Lake District
Back in October I was missing the mountains and looking for a way we could find some altitude. Without the freedom of the last two years we’re constrained by work,… Read more »