As Jen mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry, our planned tour did not eventuate. Update, the tour operator has agreed to a refund. It’s a special day for Jen today, it’s her birthday, and to celebrate it, we took a tour to the Island of Love, or so it has been…
Today, we are going exploring, Jen says, to the island of Ischia. So, making use of our 24hour Hop on Hop Off bus ticket from yesterday, took the same bus to the ferry terminal on other side of the historic part of the city. Trish, one of our friends on…
Much of our time since returning to the UK has been in visiting family and friends and otherwise, much of it, totally unproductive. Yesterday we had a visitor. A tiny feathered visitor with a red breast. Let’s call it Robin..:) It hopped onto the door ledge then hopped right inside.…
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,…
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 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 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…
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…
We drove away from our campsite of the night as a tip truck was about to drive onto it and dump another load of rubble. We got out just in time. That was at 8.30am. Thankfully the nightmare of getting across the Bosphorus and out of Istanbul, was over…or more…
What a disaster last night was!! Kids running riot around the vehicle till well after midnight and it took a loud “Shut Up!!” To get some peace but then the excavator, that we were certain would cease scratching rocks out of the ground and loading them on trucks, would stop…