During lockdown we’ve been very good and done our best to follow the rules, use our common sense and keep ourselves, our family and others safe. 3 out of 4 of us stayed home all the time. KB soldiered on at the NHS and I homeschooled the anklebiterz and set and marked work for my own students. We took our daily walk, kept our distance … Continue reading July and the Socially Distanced Camping Experiment

So this wraps up my trip down memory lane with the final leg of our 2006 Road Trip, through the final vineyard area around Champagne and our return across the manche. It did a fair few miles that Starlet. What a trip. #CampervanCapersBeforeTheCampervan Continue reading Lockdown Nostalgia 6th and Final Volume – Épernay and All Points North

This episode was quality in many ways, the beverages researched and consumed, and the japes in le minivan climatisé and the mustard scenario continue to tickle me fourteen years later! Next installment is Épernay and all points north. #CampervanCapersBeforeTheCampervan Continue reading Lockdown Nostalgia Volume 5 – Rhône and Beaune

The adventure continues… Next leg – Rhône and Beaune #CampervanCapersBeforeTheCampervan Continue reading Lockdown Nostalgia Volume 4 Roquefort, Privas, Ruoms

And so to France… In the next chapter – Roquefort, Privas, Ruoms. #CampervanCapersBeforeTheCampervan Continue reading Lockdown Nostalgia Volume 3 – Narbonne, Carcassonne, Millau

So we left the Bay of Biscay for terra firma, more wisdom from the Red Book of the Road Continue reading Lockdown Nostalgia Volume 2 The Spanish Leg

Our 2nd #Campervanniversary has passed without us journeying forth to celebrate. Indeed the wagon is descansando on the driveway and has been pretty much the whole time since lockdown began in March. Almost 3 weeks of sheltering KB when he had to isolate from the rest of us is the most action it has seen in months and so, I am reliving past wanderings with … Continue reading Lockdown Nostalgia Volume 1 The Red Book of the Road

3 nights at Corfe Castle Caravan & Camping Club, after much to-ing and fro-ing with booking problems £96 including EHU, which was, quite frankly, more than we wanted to pay in late October. It was a full club site rather than a CS and wasn’t our original choice, but as per usual we hadn’t booked that far in advance, so we just took it. It … Continue reading Dorset

Another September another trip to the Ludlow food festival, sans Haakers again, but this time with mother and Dad, who had been touring the highways and byways of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. We had successfully booked in with Mrs Woman, and made a prompt departure via the beautiful M6 Toll road. Extremely luckily the weather was fine and we had a warm welcome on the (empty … Continue reading Ludlow with the folks

More than 1100 miles later and time to head north. Enough time has passed now to have got over the dramas we encountered. We took the autoroute north, still in searing heat, ready to clock up many more kms on the way to our stopover in Beaune. I collected some randomness in French along the way: We paused to refresh and rehydrate We stopped in … Continue reading Drama on the Drive Home