It takes a more than a little willpower to fire up this morning. With a mind full of “to do” lists and tasks, sleep eluded me last night. I won’t bore you with the details: […]
2019 Day 135 – No rest for the wicked
As we all know, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. And so after 134 days of travel, it’s time to pay the piper. The motorhome has to cleaned inside and out, packed up, […]
2019 Day 134 – Buckland Abbey
I love it when pieces of the historic jigsaw click firmly in place. There’s a one such pleasingly moment today, at Buckland Abbey, linking it to Portsmouth’s Southsea Castle, which we toured on our return […]
2019 Day 133 – Dartmoor National Park
Having crossed the bottom of England many times, I’m rather thrilled to have discovered an as yet unseen, rather stunning new part to explore. Our usual path is either via the M4 or the A303, […]
2019 Day 132 – Killerton
In a first, Himself has located his inner house elf well before I have. He’s busy in a frenzy of activity, washing the motorhome. Meanwhile, I think my elf is in denial of the work […]
2019 Day 131 – Rain, rain, go away
The morning sees us back amongst the hedgerows, driving through Devon’s Blackdown Hills. It’s drizzling, of course, but it’s not been quite the terror that was forecast from Hurricane Lorenzo. Other areas of the UK […]
2019 Day 130 – Tyntesfield
Eeek! 130 days! No wonder I feel like we’ve been gone forever. Having completed our sojourn north to look at new toys, today we’re focused on our aim west. The countryside is lushly verdant green, […]
2019 Day 129 – This one, maybe?
After last night’s battery drama in the wee hours, were both a little traumatised this morning. There’s still a great deal of clean up to be done and the damage to the carpet’s doing my […]
2019 Day 128 – Hanbury Hall
You’ll not be surprised in the least to hear that we’re on a trek north, to see the latest, 2020, motorhome releases. In the end I just didn’t have the energy to put up much […]
2019 Day 127 – The trek west starts
There’s no denying it. We’re in the final stage of this year’s journey. It’s the final pivot point, where we turn to start the trek west to Cornwall, to winter the motorhome before we head […]
