28 Feb – Thursday We intended to leave around 1pm and finally at 4:30 we set off for Folkestone to spend an overnight at a local campsite to Dover.  This being our first long trip with The Poacher (our Defender) if we were going to break down, I didn’t want it to be in the […]

What a maintenance month this is turning out to be.. Landy MOT ( we call her the Poacher) and after towing 1.7 tonnes (assuming we weren’t overloaded) down to central France and back in March, without missing a beat. Well not quite – the two times I did get the tool kit out were when […]

Pedro turned up wit the bait. Looking at it I had hoped for something a little more substantial than the mini prawns and whitebait, but maybe the smaller the bait the bigger the catch around here ? Actually it was quite a good idea to have small bait, as the wind had blown up, and […]

A different part of Spain for 10 days,  and this time the driver gets a rest. We flew down on Monday, a 3.30am start, which gave us the whole day to acclimatise. Not that it was too difficult as Guido, Nicole and Veronica know this part of the country intimately, having grown up, married, studied […]

Thursday 22nd March We’ve calculated on the map where we need to be for tonight’s stopover.  There are only two campsites nearby.  One doesn’t open until 1st April and the other 1st May.  We call the first one as we’ve stayed there before, tell them about the car and they bend over backwards to welcome […]

Wednesday 21 March The wind is blowing ferociously without any let up.  It’s sink or swim so we pack down ready for our next move aiming closer for home. We pack in the wind, we leave in the wind, and drive slowly to the motorway, where we join others in the wind. It’s quite a […]

Monday 19 March We’ve consulted the map and with a poorly gearbox decide to head home slowly. Very slowly, not yet decided on which channel crossing to aim for.  The route will depend on the car’s performance.  With Steve at the wheel nursing the gearbox we make our way towards Clermont Feraud drawing in deep […]

Sunday 18 March Three weeks and three days in Villa Paraiso, about 10km from Benidorm, and it’s time to go.  I’ve enjoyed the weather, the campsite, our super duper touring caravan and especially the company of my able Boy Scout who has a tool for everything and can fix anything, but 24 days static in […]

View from the cockpit ….. A month in this wobble box, internally 22 feet long by 6ft wide, about as big as a prison cell. It’s not a big space, but hopefully I‘m getting smaller as fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch and healthy teas take over from my Welsh diet, which involved Irene from […]