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Category: The Trip Plan

Challenges of International travel, and life.

Time for an update on our unravelling plans. Getting back home to New Zealand is proving more difficult than necessary. It’s completely understandable that carriers are rescheduling and making commercial adjustments to their business plan. To me, what is unacceptable is that their plans are not articulated to those they…

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Dennis 18/10/2020 27/10/2021The Trip Plan 1

September 2020 update from Wineham, West Sussex, UK

Well, we survived our second round of 14 days of self isolation. This time it was much harder and I was starting to feel like a caged animal. I did ‘escape’ twice. Once to walk to the letterbox down the lane to post some urgent documents. I saw no one…

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Jen 14/09/2020 01/07/2021The Trip Plan 4

Friday 21st August. Thank you France, you are amazing. Now back in Blighty.

The last day in France went as planned. As it was a drizzly night the Caranex was packed up wet. There was no time to dry it out as the ferry check-in time being 11am. Departure time from Dieppe, 12.30pm. Breakfast and packing up takes time and it was 9.15am…

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Dennis 22/08/2020 13/10/2020The Trip Plan 0

Monday, 10th August – Sunday, 16th August. Aizenay, Nostang, Redon, Le Coudray-Macouard.

The last 5 days have been pretty amazing. A mix of staying in some fabulous luxurious and historic locations, with camping. Being with family, meeting friends and new extended family. None of this was anticipated or planned for this year. The only downside being the news, a couple of days…

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Jen 18/08/2020 28/08/2020The Trip Plan 1

Tuesday 4th to Sunday 9th August. France.

Jen mentioned the recovery of Poki from home Saturday morning. Rob, the mechanic from Gumtree, who kindly rushed to our assistance with a recovery vehicle and trailer, carted Poki back to the workshop. I couldn’t get her started again after returning from the worship Friday afternoon. Rob was ultimately successful…

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Dennis 10/08/2020 08/09/2020The Trip Plan 5

Sunday, 2nd August. Wineham, West Sussex, U.K.

Having been in the U.K. for 7 weeks, Poki has just caught up with us, 2 days later than scheduled. We collected her from Southampton Docks last Monday afternoon. This turned out to be a very simple procedure. Much to our extreme delight and after weeks of worrying, she is…

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Jen 03/08/2020 10/08/2020The Trip Plan 6

Days 313 – 320. Royal Oak Country Park. West Sussex. UK.

Friday 12th June. It’s lovely to be home again. That is, in our “other” home, in the UK. While it’s clouding over now it’s been a glorious day, since we arose at midday…:) The journey to get here from Veracruz in Mexico, was almost flawless in execution. Though much more expensive…

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Dennis 14/06/2020 12/09/2020The Trip Plan 15

4th – 6th June. Days 310 – 312. In Veracruz, Mexico.

Thursday, 4th June: We have the luxury of 2 bedrooms in our apartment. The decision was made to sleep in the back bedroom. We have an abundance of ceiling fans and air conditioning units in both bedrooms. Great, we thought. However, the fans on full speed clonk and rattle and…

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Jen 06/06/2020 09/06/2020The Trip Plan 10

Day 307 to 309. Wednesday 3rd June. Veracruz. Mexico

it was soooo good to be driving Poki again. How you must wish you had experienced driving a 110 TD5 Defender. I can hear you gnashing your teeth and flailing your backs with birch bough’s, in frustration…:) Back to reality…:). Yesterdays drive from just outside Coatzacoalcos  was largely uneventful. However,…

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Dennis 03/06/2020 09/06/2020The Trip Plan 2

May 24th – May 31st. Days 299 – 306. From San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala to just outside Coatzacoalcos in Mexico.

Life had been carrying on in our bubble routine. Monday, 25th was different, though. We were lazily eating our porridge, in a state of semi undress, when there was a knock on our door. Sarah, somewhat agitated. “We’re going into the village in 5 minutes to get certificates from the…

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Jen 01/06/2020 04/06/2020The Trip Plan 7
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