Christmas in Ixassou After opening our Christmas gifts, we headed down to breakfast in the hotel. Today was fun, but hardly a conventional Christmas. We had a lovely WhatsApp catch up with my son Tim and then ventured out to set about cleaning Poki, inside and out. It was very…
Underway at last Well at last we are back on the road. Onwards and upwards, or in our case, onwards and southwards. Leaving at 0700 it was still pitch dark. I don’t like leaving in the dark as it is harder to check if everything has been left in order.…
Bad weather Dennis asked in his last blog, “What could go wrong”. Perhaps I should start by asking, what could go right? Contending with snow was not something that had occurred to us in our advanced planning. On Sunday we went, in my aged Mini Cooper, Poki being out of…
Stopover in San Francisco I had forgotten how grey and miserable the UK can be in November. We returned here on 23rd, after 3 lovely days in Novato, just outside of San Francisco. It’s always good to break the long journey from New Zealand. We are very fortunate to have…
It’s now a week today, that we head back to the UK, before driving down through France and Spain, to Africa a couple of weeks later Lying in bed last night, sleep evading me, I got thinking about the amazing number of people that have come across our blog site.…
I know it’s a cliche, but our summer here in the UK has simply flown. After our trip to France last week, we are now concentrating on finalising refinements to Poki and organising ourselves for our return to New Zealand, via Canada, next week. We had a wonderful visit to…
We’ve been back at our U.K. base in Wineham for over a month now. Poki has made a brief visit to Gumtree 4X4 for a start on some of the work Dennis would like done. There was insufficient time to work on the gearbox though. Gumtree, as is everyone else,…
Our drive from Bad Kissingen to Slovenia, through Southern Germany and Austria was pretty easy going as we avoided motorways. Poki struggled up and down 3 mountain passes in Austria. The scenery was spectacular. Dennis is concerned something is amiss with the gear box. We arrived in Slovenia in the…
3 weeks since we left sunny California. Despite my fears our flight might be cancelled, our journey from San Francisco to Heathrow was painless. In fact British Airways exceeded expectations. Inflight service and crew were good. Certainly better than Air New Zealand. The only negative, a slow check-in due to…
The New Zealand Government has finally given the go ahead for the “Hermit Kingdom” to open up. This will happen in stages, dependent on which country you are from and your vaccination status. The border having being closed for 2 years. More importantly it means one can get back into…