And we start to blog again! On 15th May Pegasus left Cowroast for the last time, heading for Crick, on the Leicester arm of the Grand Union. After a hectic few days with family and festivals, Lyds and I departed for our new mooring at Cropredy. 5 days later we caught the train home, and […]
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The Cruise from Cowroast to Bristol
Preferred route from Cowroast Marina to Crick Marina Entrance No 1 Summary of trip This is a trip of 59 miles, 1 furlong and 46 locks from Cowroast Marina to Crick Marina Entrance No 1.This will take 28 hours and 19 minutes which is 4 days, 19 minutes at 7 hours per day. Preferred route from Crick Marina […]
Read MoreWho’s Biting Blanche ?
Entomology has been added to our list of caravanning skills! Around sunset the light fades, the caravan takes on a brilliance which attracts anything small that flies, it’s not hummingbirds or owls I’m referring to but insects, in fact even during the day we encounter them. Blanche as ever, has a plan. This starts with […]
Read MoreDurmitor – Lord of ‘The Ring’
So I thought I’d get my bit in first this time and give you the driver’s “View from the cockpit”. The Durmitor Ring is a 76k circular route through some of the most spectacular mountainous regions of Montenegro. We drove up from the 1450m town of Zabljak, to a maximum height of 1,950 m, which […]
Read MoreKotor Serpentine and Earthquakes
The Kotor Serpentine is a series of 26 bends, running up the mountain behind Kotor. It’s a little scary, but we got lost getting to the start of it, and took a much more dangerous road up to the Fortress Blanche wrote about. There was a big – big earthquake in Montenegro in 1979, everyone […]
Read MoreCaravan Electrics
OK, so let’s get the electric hook-up sorted. Not advice, not preaching, it’s just how we do it. Remember electricity is dangerous, can’t see it, can’t smell it, but touch it and it can kill. I’m not qualified, so if you’ve any doubts, get an electrician to advise, and certainly get it confirmed at the […]
Read MoreWater Matters
OK, let’s talk water, 71% of the world’s surface, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, always heavy, ( I Litre = I Kilogramme), it’s wet and needs containment. This is how we manage our caravan water, it’s not advice, not a guide, not endorsements, just how we do it. Our Adria is getting on for 10 years […]
Read MoreCaravan Door Change
The door to the washroom was always a nuisance It opened into the passageway, and so cut the caravan into two. Having the door closed meant we lost the light from its window, didn’t have the extra sink accessible for handwashing etc, and the hand-towel, which hung behind the door was not useful at all. […]
Read MoreCaravan Bottled Gas in UK, Spain and France
So it’s lockdown here in Spain, and not turned a wheel in nearly 5 months, so I’d thought I’d write up my guide to Gas in the caravan. Will also apply to motorhomes, but BIG CAVEAT is that I am not a gas engineer, and the following page is my interpretation of how it fits […]
Read MoreAxle Disaster
We were due to have the caravan serviced by Paul, he turned up , took one look at the wheel, which is the one generally hidden up against the fence, and proclaimed that the rubbers looked to have perished. The axle suspension is of a torsion bar design, think of a towel being rung out […]
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