We have a joke in our house about ‘ailment hour’ when we allow ourselves to discuss our growing list of medical challenges and then stop when time is up. The stopping bit is quite an issue, hence it turning into a joke. I’m not going to bore you with the details but suffice to sayRead more
Our visit to Silversands Arisaig in June left us thirsty for more, so just over a month later we arranged to come back, this time for three weeks. We decided to bring our car with us, travelling in convoy and taking the journey gently as we didn’t have the usual benefit of changing drivers. TheRead more
Fife on a budget I belong to numerous online motorhoming groups and spend more time than I should discovering new places to visit. This is the opposite of living in the moment but, if the moment is dull and the weather is bad, it has a lot of appeal. Whilst reading about new places openingRead more
You might have noticed that things have gone very quiet in this corner of the world. We haven’t given up or sold Heidi … it’s just that other things have got in the way. I’ve been pondering whether to write because every now and then I take a look at the stats and I canRead more
We had been home for almost three months when the urge drove us back to take Heidi the Hymer on a trip. She hadn’t been idle all these months with family members making good use of her and some bits of upgrading being done. A strange thing happens to us when we’ve been on aRead more
We are home and it’s time to finish the latest tale and reflect on where we’ve been. We spent our last five nights in Camping St Clair at Neufchâtel en Bray. This is the town we usually begin and end each trip and it feels very familiar now. Poppy had her necessary visit to theRead more
Camping Risle Seine is in upper Normandy about twenty miles inland from Honfleur. We chose it because it has a golf course on one side and beautiful lakes to walk around on the other. The town of Pont Audemer is a ten minute cycle away with everything we might need and we could see thatRead more
It was hard to leave La Roche Bernard. We had enjoyed five nights in our huge pitch by the riverside and on the last couple of days had some good chats with our neighbour, an Irishman called Pat (no, this isn’t the start of a joke) who liked to tour France on a massive motorbikeRead more
Almost every time we have visited France in the last few years we have been travelling out of season in late autumn or early spring, spending the colder days of winter as far south as we could get in Europe. When we had endless time to spend this was practical and undeniably pleasant. One ofRead more
At Lac de Pardoux we enjoyed hot walks beside the water and watched French teenagers ignoring all the safety signs around the footbridges over the lake. “Don’t jump in from here!” … of course they did. Great whoops of delight from their friends and gasps of horror from everyone else. There were diving and jumpingRead more