Where does inspiration live when you’re in a hurry? Happy birthday to Eileen! Well, it was Auntie Eileen’s birthday on June 28th, so we have made it Eileen The Campervan’s official birthday too and she is all of fourteen today. Her birthday started with a drive across the flat lands of the southern end […]
You have to like a person very much to be able to go traveling with them…… We packed up the patio the night before, with the plan to get moving a bit more speedily. We had two things to see on Thursday and then a bit of a drive to the next campsite; no more
‘Life is like a book. If you haven’t travelled you’ve only read the first chapter’. Told to us in Tarascon sur Ariège As it was a Saturday, we were expecting another noisy night, perhaps with fireworks, rather than fire, but thankfully it was all quiet and we enjoyed a peaceful night. The next morning,
Climb every mountain…….”but do I have to”, said Laura We woke up from our last sleep in Spain, had our last shower in Spain, did a quick last shop in Spain; we knew the Mercadona Supermarket sold pasteis de nata and very good cherries. It feels like we’ve seen so many facets and assets of
‘Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product’. Eleanor Roosevelt I think we started Monday in France, no, sorry, it was Spain. Was it? Yes, it was definitely Spain. The Camprodon campsite was about 13kms south of the border and we drove further south from there, then south-west to Ripoli, a small town that
If you get bored just open your eyes The main road north was only a couple of kilometres from the campsite and we were zooming up it. Okay, not exactly zooming, more like tootling, but at least it was a straight road and Eileen seemed happy with that. Except, she wasn’t completely happy. When
Life in retirement is no longer a race to be run; we’re enjoying just idly wandering and jogging along. In the morning Eileen looked a bit sad; the rain had turned her dusty exterior to a grubby smudge and the patio was a muddy sodden bit of plastic. Time to move on back to Spain.
There are always worse ways to spend your time… By Sunday morning, I had at least 30 itchy bites all over me and that’s the trouble with etangs and rivers, they seem to encourage bitey things to take up residence. It was also incredibly hot and we either needed some sea breezes, or a
Be happy in this moment. This moment is your life…. The sun was shining yet again for Rodney’s birthday and that was probably his best present. He’s a man who just doesn’t need, or want, anything but to travel the world…….and we’re doing that. So his wardrobe has expanded a little and I gave
And that’s a whole other box of monkeys My head survived the night after, what we’ll call the ‘Tuesday night incident’, but my brain got further confused on Wednesday morning. Rodney had done a fair bit of packing up the night before, so we still managed to get away from Roses fairly early. But when
When you get tired, just take the time to stop and smell the roses. Rodney spent our 23rd anniversary morning cycling around Santa Margarida and Roses, while I tried to catch up on ‘stuff’. He came back with two tickets for a cruise up the Costa Brava coast. Nice. After lunch, we hopped on our