We began the new season with a short trip to Edinburgh to meet up with family and have some fun. Our plan was to go to Slatebarns CL next to Rosslyn Chapel, of Dan Brown fame, for three nights. On the four nights before we were due to leave home, Poppy had kept us awakeRead more
Written several weeks later …. It wasn’t long before another few days empty of appointments appeared in the diary and we could set off again. The No Plans idea had worked so well on the last trip that we decided to do give it another try. Once more we looked at the weather forecast andRead more
We discovered ten days in the diary with no appointments or commitments, a rare thing at the moment, and so we decided to head off to “somewhere”. Where should we go? Our only source of useful information came from the weather forecast plus Shirley’s desire to go fishing. We also both wanted to play golfRead more
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
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
We left Camping El Garrofer in Sitges, detouring to a local shopping area where there is an outdoor Laundromat. It was in the carpark of a supermarket in one of the less salubrious areas outside of the town just up the road from Lidl where we usually do our final shop before leaving. Unfortunately, theRead more
We recently left home for a twelve week trip to France and Spain. We had to push the leaving date back a week because of a silly but disastrous error with my electric bike. It went like this. We put our electric bikes in for service ready for the trip. Shirley’s took longer than mineRead more