Category: Chapter 5
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The tale of the ski season (2023)
The mountains have a special sense of magic; an attraction that keeps drawing us back. It’s lucky to experience this for a week but spending a season up in the mountains feels privileged indeed.
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The perfect week
It’s hard to know how to define the a ‘perfect week’. For sure it will be different for everyone but we’ve had a good go at finding one.
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Champagne, mountains et un catastrophe
When you live in your motorhome even the smallest things can be an adventure or, depending on your perspective, a real pain in the arse.
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A Druid, a Tor and an invisible comet
On a damp but brightening January day, we are leaving Exeter on our way to Glastonbury.
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Brunel’s Bristol
A welcome shift in the jet stream has brought back the clear blue skies and freezing temperature of December but it’s well worth it to be free of the rain. We’ve enjoyed our time in Bath and are now heading for Bristol.
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Can I smell burning?
We experience a few electrical gremlins on our trip from Welwyn Garden City to Cheltenham and Bath.
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Chocks away
Happy New Year. For me, this time of year has always been an exciting time, unbounded by life’s usual constraints, to think about what I’d like to do in the coming year. There’s a lot to do.
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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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A cold snap for our Christmas Tour
So it seems that in December, Winter has properly gotten started in the UK and we’ve had quite a busy couple of weeks on the run up to Christmas.
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A new home each night and ‘whack-a-mole’ with red lights
As we travel across the country to see friends and family before Christmas, we stop into Iveco to sort a fault with Beatrix.
