Author: Sally Denn
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The High’s and Low’s Tale of full timing. What’s it really like and why you need resilience?
What’s it really like full timing in a motorhome? This is the tale of June 2023 when we had some amazing sunny and “outdoors†days – making us feel good about full timing i.e. the “High’sâ€, followed by, some may say inevitably, some “Lowsâ€. We want to make sure our blog tells the “real life 
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The tale of the Christmouse
‘Twas the eve of Christmas and nothing was stirring in Beatrix except a pair of small beady eyes belonging to a Christmouse.
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To book or not to book, that is the question
Changing the way we travel from booking 100% to not booking at all. The tale of stretching a comfort zone and when you would book versus when not.
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2022. Our reflections on our first year full timing in our motorhome
We thought it would be fun to write a short blog of our reflections on our first full year in living in Beatrix, taking on the road less travelled. To make it more interesting, I did this as an interview style Q&A whilst on the long road down to the Alps covering our Top 5…
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Returning to the UK via Beaune, Champagne and Belgium
After enjoying our time in Puy, even with the chainsaw massacre, we began the return leg to the UK. It was an eventful couple of weeks travel back and we stayed at some wonderful aires, Merlin became French and Beatrix took us to another country.
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The tale of the distended thumb, broken stairs and a Chainsaw Massacre
From enjoying skiing, improving by taking a lesson, falling over and distending my thumb to broken stairs and a chainsaw massacre. Read on for more details.
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The tale of snow to sun, broken branches and inadvertent adventure stripes
Moving from snow in the mountains to sunshine on the French Riviera. We had sunshine, wind and falling branches and Beatrix got some adventure stripes.
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The Tale of French aires, sat nav issues and hairpin bends to reach the Alps
Driving to the Alps so we can live our dream of doing a ski season in Beatrix. Our first stays in French aires and finding out Beatrix can handle most things including steep roads and hairpin bends.
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Final preparations for France, Eurotunnel firsts and French roads
Preparations for France: for us as humans, Merlin and Beatrix. Covid restrictions being lifted and exciting maintenance activities. What more do you want to hear about in the New Year.
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What the festive season is all about – seeing friends and family – December 2021
We drove from Sheringham to Leavenheath near Sudbury for our second « staying at a friends » house, visiting Anthea and Kevin. We had been to their house lots of time before, however never with Beatrix. We double checked that Beatrix would fit on their driveway and even sent measurements as we did not want…