2019 – The Killin 5K & 10K WeekendThis trip was just a few days away for the two of us to help out at the Tay Fitness Killin 5K & 10K Weekend event on Saturday the 24th of August. We left Ardrishaig on the Friday afternoon after The Navigator returned from working at Inveraray that…
2019 – Escape to Girvan does not quite have the same ring to it as, say, Escape to Victory, but I did escape in Bessie for a few days and I did end up in Girvan so it’s the best title I can think of… When The Navigator informed me that she had a few…
2019 – A June jaunt.We haven’t been in the van for a few weeks, so with a couple of free weeks we decided to head off on a June jaunt to visit friends and relatives we have not seen for a while in and around Falkirk, before heading to the Moray Coast in north east…
2019 – You will travel in a land of marvels – ChambordI have been forced into wheeling out the ‘you will travel in a land of marvels’ quotation from Jules Verne again as we have been fortunate enough to visit another marvel, Château Chambord in the Loire valley, not far from Blois. Chambord was built…
2019 – The Benidorm Cooking ExperienceNo doubt you will all be delighted to know that we are enjoying the warm weather in Spain since we arrived in mid January 2019. The journey here was fantastic as we took two weeks to drive down through France on a route we have not been on before. We…
2019 – You will travel in a land of marvels – CarcassonneOn our six month trip last year we encountered two ‘marvels’ in all that time, Mont St Michel and the Alhambra Palace, but on this trip we have been to two in a week, the Palace of Versailles, and now Carcassonne, and this one…
2019 – You will travel in a land of marvels – VersaillesRegular followers of this blog will know that once in a while on our travels we visit somewhere so special that it requires its own extended page and The Palace of Versailles is the third to warrant that honour after Mont St Michel in…
Week 3 – Day 1 – Monday 16th of July 2018Paillencourt France to Thieu Belgium – 74 miles2018 – A week in Belgium after Le Tour de France 2018We had been on a wonderful wildcamping spot beside a canal at Paillencourt in Northern France for a couple of days to see the cobbled Stage 9 of…
2018 – Trefumel and Memories Who remembers the classic 1975 hit ‘Memories’, sung by Gladys Knight and the Pips? The second half of the song lyrics are very apt to the subject matter of this blog post – memories. Sing along if you remember how it goes… Why does it always seem the past is…
2018 – Wildcamping at Skipness / Claonaig…is a great spot in its own right for a few days break or as a stopover before taking the short ferry crossing to Arran, or, after coming off the ferry, especially the later crossings. However you get here, this spot is worth the effort for the fantastic views…
2018 – You will travel in a land of marvels – The Alhambra PalaceThis quote from Jules Verne is the second outing on this journey, the first being for Mont St Michel, and on the league table of marvels, The Alhambra Palace comes out well on top. How do you begin to describe The Alhambra…
2017 – You will travel in a land of marvels – Mont St MichelThe above quotation by Jules Verne could so easily have been coined to describe Mont St Michel in Normandy, the first true marvel of this 2017/2018 trip. No matter how many times you visit, and this is our fourth, you are bound…
Touring Arran with a motorhome. Scotland in miniature “they” say. A must visit destination “they” say. Well I have to confess that for some inexplicable reason, in all my 62 years, I have never set foot on the island. I’ve cruised for 24 hours from Portsmouth to Santander by Brittany Ferries, but not the half hour…