Catch up on our latest adventures here :
A Mog with a View
Just in case my last post left you in any doubt, we had fallen in love with Bosnia from the moment we crossed the border. The people were kind and friendly, the country oozed a…
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The Great Escape
Sometimes you just know, and when our ferry from Italy landed in Dubrovnik and we drove out into the streets of Croatia we knew. We knew that the chaos, the noise and the demands of…
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A Swan Song for Italy
Roman ruin overload and finally some peace and quiet in Paestum. Until we found that BigMog had contracted a nasty case of Diesel Bug. Diesel Bug meant that both his fuel tanks, all the fuel…
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The Ruins of an Empire
After the intensity of Rome, our rest day on the pretty little campsite at Tivoli had been just what we needed, especially as we were both now suffering with man flu. James was starting to…
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Interlude – All Roads Lead to Rome…
We arrived at our campsite in Tivoli and were very pleased with our choice. It was a small place, really just the large garden of a family home, but it was perfect for us The…
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Wined and Dined Italian Style
We had been in Italy for nearly a month now and were about to start doing some seriously big-hitting stuff. We left our quiet park-up place in Vinci and headed to an aire on the…
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An Italian Hatchet Job
We were keen to be out of the Alps – between the narrow roads and chilly welcome for motorhomes it was feeling a bit too much like what we had just left behind. So we…
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“On Days Like These…”
We had reconciled ourselves to the fact that Switzerland was not what we had anticipated. Yes it was beautiful but it was also unfriendly, expensive and it was impossible to be spontaneous. But accepting it…
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An Udderly Swiss Conundrum
It’s not always easy to know when you’ve crossed a border in the Schengen zone, that’s kind of the point I suppose. And so it was as we drove from France into our new country…
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Parlez-Vous Francais?
As our ferry docked at Dunkirk it was hard to put my feelings into any kind of order On the one hand, we were travelling again – free as the wind, ready for the next…
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The Perils of Owning a UniMog
Back in September 2023, when Henry’s gearbox needed replacing in Namibia, I wrote a post entitled ‘The Perils of Owning a Landrover’. It therefore seemed appropriate, and only fair to our two boys, to name this…
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A Grand Finale to Scotland
We had tramped around Edinburgh and Glasgow and been over-awed by the highlands and islands. We had immersed ourselves in the history and culture of the east and learnt more about the industrial heritage of…
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The Sidetracked Sagas 