Category: Travel Blogs
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The Grand Tour begins
In the 1700’s, the Grand Tour was chance for wealthy, well to do, young gentlemen to travel to learn about renaissance art and architecture on a voyage of self discovery in Italy. 300 years later, this is our version but with more wine.
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Italy 2023 – Planning our trips
So we’ve decided we’re going to Italy….. how do we go about planning what to do and where to go?
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The tale of the broken tail (by Merlin, aged 8)
Hi, I’m a little grey schnauzer called Merlin and this is my tale.
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Are things better the second time or just different or does it depend what it is?
There are many sayings about some things being better the second time around. Things like kissing, sex and apparently, although this seems a little obvious, wearing new shoes! What about going to places? What is the measure of „better“ then? In this post we talk about our second visit to Coniston this year.
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A helping hand
We’re great believers in ourselves and that we can accomplish pretty much anything. Sometimes, however, everyone needs a helping hand.
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Three Lochs Drive
The Three Lochs Drive in the Trossachs National Park is a great place to explore and get lost in for 3 days.
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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’s”, followed by, some may say inevitably, some “Lows”. We want to make sure our blog tells the “real life”…
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An eye full in the Lake District
There has been a lot of new things to get used to since we started living in our motorhome full time but definitely one of the oddest things has been the staring.
