Tag: Beatrix
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The tale of Italian contrasts and the stowaway
The tale of Italian contrasts and the stowaway shows the contrasting sides of Italy we’ve seen so far. The tourist traps with 1000’s of people which differ so dramatically with the quiet, little villages with a real Italian vibe. Oh and a stowaway joins us as we visit Lucca, Pisa, Florence and Grève in Chianti.
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Know your limits or ‘the one where the truck gets stuck on the mountain’
We’re in the Dolomites. The roads are really steep here but how steep can we go? This week we find out!
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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.
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Family fun and the search for the sun
Our wheels are pointed north and you find us, in early May, still searching for some Spring sunshine.
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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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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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Can I smell burning?
We experience a few electrical gremlins on our trip from Welwyn Garden City to Cheltenham and Bath.