Calais Leaving the campsite at around 10.40, we had plenty of time to have a supermarket stop on the way to the ferry port. We had already shopped yesterday, but I thought we needed more wine and I hoped to find cherries. Cherries were not available, but I did find…
A typical Saturday night, camping and sleep deprivation wise. As Jen mentioned, the singer kept belting out old American songs till after 11pm and then at god knows what hour, a domestic broke out not far away, with both partners screaming at each other and the children wailing, before herself,…
Going Slow France is our favourite country, so for the next couple of days we are going slowly. This morning we got up late, then spent some time chatting to our Dutch neighbours, Menno and Kirsten, so it was 11.00 before we pulled off our camping pitch. The morning started…
After a great sleep, yes, a much cooler night and the sky was blue in the morning. Our destination today is Strasburg 500k’s away, just inside the French border. It’s a slightly north- west trajectory, before dropping south-west, approx 100k’s short of Strasburg. That was the plan but we…
Camping Martina By dusk last night, camping Martina was absolutely packed. It is in a pretty little village with an imposing building, looking a bit like Colditz, dominating the scene. All day yesterday it had been looking as if it was building up for a storm. During the afternoon we…
Camping Olspur was a delightful camp site. The facilities are second to none. As in most camp sites in Austria and Germany, cleanliness and operability is assured. Our plan to not use toll roads payed off handsomely today. The countryside is spectacular, scenery wise. Magnificent forests, lakes and rivers. We…
Leaving Business Club. Business Club was rather a strange place. Accommodation, but not really a hotel. It was a lovely, cool room though, with air conditioning which didn’t blow directly onto us. It was good to catch up with a shower and hair wash, after 2 or 3 days of…
Leaving the harvested wheat field without taking half of the stubble with us, was not easy and it drove Jen crazy…:) We were grateful to have had access to the field as we were desperate to find somewhere to stop, last night. My eyes were very sore driving west into…
We woke up refreshed at our campsite on the farm. It was already getting hot and as we packed up, swallows swooped all around us catching the insects we disturbed in the long grass. Today was the hottest we had experienced so far. It seems incongruous that the further west…
Having a rest day yesterday was just the ‘bees knees’. Time to do stuff like washing clothes and bedding., checking Poki’s oil level and plain relaxing. A gorgeous day with temp of 31deg. Watching last weekends edition of LR Time and getting a few email’s away. The washing dried…