Blessed are the sunny wash days. “Don’t be silly”, I said. “That is far too far to drive in one day in Eileen”. “I’ll be tired, she’ll be tired, we’ll all be tired” But we did. 555 kilometres in all. On Tuesday. And all that time, the main thing we noticed was the number […]
Does the sun shine more brightly after rain? We left Camping Le Spere fairly early in the mist and rain, we knew it was going to be a very wriggly road down the Futa Pass to Florence, which it was. We then relied on the GPS to get us to, very new, Camping Firenze,
If you could choose anywhere in the world, where would it? The drive south from Luzern was spectacular, really quite outstanding. Our first diversion was for Rodney to nose around Weggis for a while, to find the apartment that his family stayed at when he was only six years old; we think we found
Rodney loves the mountains, but I need a beach to make me truly happy, and I do understand that there will never be beaches with rolling surf anywhere up a mountain. But you can love a classic movie like The English Patient even if there isn’t a gorgeous actor like Jude Law in it, and
A good story needs an interesting life…… April 18th means we are in the second half of April, which is well into Spring and we would have thought it would be a bit warmer by now. So when I stepped outside early in the morning, I was a bit taken aback to find
When you have nothing else to do, do something. Four years ago we were campervan novices, but now we feel like seasoned veterans. That is until a policeman on a motorbike pulls you over and, rather dangerously, makes you back up the hard-shoulder of a freeway to the previous junction and asks you to
Drive, drive, drive your van gently to the sea Can travelling in Eileen get more glorious than this? We’re back on the road again and even in our fifth year, it still feels exciting. Our first night, actually make that two nights, were spent at the precariously sited Warren Campsite outside Folkestone. We were
So here we go, travelling from over here, to over there. Not sure where over there is, but at the end of this jaunt in Eileen, I guess we’ll find out. Just one Australian dollar can buy you an awful lot on a stopover from Sydney to London on Singapore Airlines. Yes, this