Reason for this trip. I think this trip might prove momentous, but for all the wrong reasons. Last year we went to Rome on a similar EasyJet holiday. This was a great success. A four star hotel, which was very good. Lovely staff and a beautiful garden restaurant. Everyone we…
Gatwick to Naples Flight Leaving at a civilised time in mid afternoon, it was an uneventful flight with EasyJet. An on time arrival at just before 7pm. A time change here, so we lost an hour. I wasn’t sure how long immigration would take with the new European entry system.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When we arrived last night the campsite was very quiet with few other campers. It gave us a peaceful night and morning. We were up late, about 09.00, had a leisurely breakfast and then set about the laundry. Luckily it was a beautiful day, so everything dried very quickly. I’m…
From South of Bartin to a bit North of Istanbul Airport. Our campsite was in a hollow, so when we woke it was quite misty and damp. The tent was soaking. We carried it up onto a flat plateau in the sun and waited about 30 minutes for it to…
The Drive to Samsun We woke early to a beautiful blue sky day and left our beachside camp before 09.30. It was a bit of a manoeuvring job to get out through the trees and the low power lines strung between the trees. The assistance of the owner with a…