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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 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 »
New Tyres and Controversy in Elgin
. 21/10/24 When I think of Elgin I automatically think of marbles. Not the rolling kind, but the magnificent marble friezes from the Parthenon which were taken to Britain with… Read more »
Our First CAMPRA Aire
10/10/24 CAMPRA – the Campaign for Real Aires – is a non profit organisation which has been campaigning for better, all year round, motorhome parking and facilities in the UK…. 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 »
An Early Birthday in the Silver City
04/10/24 From the mountains to the city. Our next destination was Aberdeen, named the Silver City in early tourist literature because of the sparkles in the granite stones of many… Read more »
Exploring Edinburgh
15/09/24 We aren’t usually great at enjoying city breaks, but we decided that we just had to spend some time in Edinburgh. Paul hasn’t been before and I’ve only stayed… Read more »
Unexpected Brig
21/09/2023 Brig (officially Brig-Glis) is a town in the Rhône valley that is probably best known for being a transport hub. Trains bring in people who are travelling to and… 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 »